Any Audio Clips from The Wobbler?
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The Return of "The Wobbler???"
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Sounds a lot like the Remco Caravelle when you would bump the table and the antenna would sway a little and you could hear it "wobble" in frequency against a carrier strong enough to heterodyne with. Cycling, varying, stray capacitance in an uncontrolled frequency oscillator circuit. Maybe an air conditioner fan motor with a bad winding?
Weird night. I tuned the Athens, GA SDR and got WWL with the wobbler coming in strong. I switched to my radio, in my studio, 30 miles away and got the same WWL with a loud beep about every 5 seconds. Tried to post audio but I can't seem to upload the file. I've always heard the same audio on my regular radio but tonight I was listening to both at the same time and heard 2 different sounds. I will post the sound when I can figure out how.
We used to have loads of such minor but audible deviations in Latin America. Stations off frequency by 50 or 60 cycles or less. This was often due to either unstable crystals (non-vacuum crystals in humid and hot environments will build up the ability to wander a bit) or the use of a VFO instead of a crystal, common with lots of "home built" transmitters using an amalgamation of locally available parts. Some AMs even used ham radio gear, modified to have greater audio capabilities.
Today, that is unusual. But in Cuba today, anything is possible.
Great point. And probably worth nothing that this isn't the first....or only...wobbler. Of course, all signs overwhelmingly point to Cuba. But I don't think anyone here can say that with 100% certainty. At least not just yet.
Another observation. About 7:10PM, I was listening to 870. Mostly nothing for the first five minutes or so and then started hearing the wobbler. R. Reloj audio, I think it was, coming up, but the wobbler was stronger. Not dark enough for WWL to come through into Orange Park, FL.
Again, Any Audio Clips or YT Videos?
The only thing I can find on YouTube is a wobnler on 650 AM from a decade ago, and one on 1000 AM in 2012. Interesting times...
I would recommend listening on a SE region SDR, and pressing that record button if you hear it.
Thanks
Ok, I'm on the Key West SDR on 870, Like a DJ sratching a Record
Ok, I'm on the Key West SDR on 870, Like a DJ sratching a Record
Yeah it's a pretty strange sound.
Is there any Cuban SDR's I can listen to?
Good question. I'd love to find one, but suspect that such a service would not be allowed in socialist Cuba and would not be possible due to limited broadband Internet connections there. There is also the issue of "Who could afford the equipment and the electrical costs?" in a very controlled economy.
Keep in mind, also, that Cuba is 800 miles from East to West, so even if an SDR were available, it would only give a slice of domestic Cuban radio.
I would love to hear an SDR in Cuba, but like David I doubt one exists.
Closest is Key West, (operated by Trans World Radio, presumably so the engineering staff can monitor the 800 signal as it passes Cuba), and it receives a lot of Cuban signals even in the daytime (you can hear Reloj on 950 "like a local"). It would be interesting to hear one on the island itself, but, as you said, it'd be wall to wall domestics .
I was just reading Glenn Hauser's weekly report and on 9/3 he heard a wobbler on 820 under WBAP. Whatever it is, it's spreading...
Interestingly, the Key West SDR system is far enough away from VOA's Marathon 1180 kHz transmitter that the Cuba station on 1180 is very audible under the VOA Radio Marti audio.
Yep! But safe to say most of that has to do with R. Marti's DA pattern. And the massive amount of brute force on R. Rebelde transmitters on 1180 that the Cubans use to overcome R. Marti.
As referenced in Post #103, here is what I heard on my home radio that night.
I can't speak for others, but the beep tone is not what I've been hearing.
Me either, I usually hear the wobbler, I heard it at the same time from an SDR 30 miles away but on my radio it was the beeps. I've always heard the same thing as the SDR except for that night.
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