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4/27 10:30 PM CST 1060 KC
Been listening to a station playing an old recording of Casey Kasem from I believe the 80s. Could not get any ID from them the entire time I heard them. They appeared to be strongest northwest/southeast direction.
Lost copy now at just before 11:00. Now hearing I believe CMGW in Matanzas, Cuba.

The Casey Kasem station was playing songs from the 80s. If anyone has an idea who that may have been please let me know.
 
Mike in Destin said:
4/27 10:30 PM CST 1060 KC
Been listening to a station playing an old recording of Casey Kasem from I believe the 80s. Could not get any ID from them the entire time I heard them. They appeared to be strongest northwest/southeast direction.
Lost copy now at just before 11:00. Now hearing I believe CMGW in Matanzas, Cuba.

The Casey Kasem station was playing songs from the 80s. If anyone has an idea who that may have been please let me know.
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I guess it's too far-fetched to think that the Cuban station might have been playing an old pirated Casey Kasem recording, for whatever reason.

Dumb question, do we know how common it is, for Cubans to listen to radio from the US? They couldn't possibly jam every frequency.
 
IM42A said:
I guess it's too far-fetched to think that the Cuban station might have been playing an old pirated Casey Kasem recording, for whatever reason.
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Everything on Cuban radio is controlled by the central government, and there are "monitors" at each network, both national and regional, to check all stations.

And since the Chinese rebuilt all the Cuban stations, it's unlikely they have tape or disk facilities at the stations any longer.
IM42A said:
Dumb question, do we know how common it is, for Cubans to listen to radio from the US? They couldn't possibly jam every frequency.
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Every AM frequency is filled at least once and in many cases with over 10 transmitters if there is anything the government wants to block. All the Miami Spanish language AMs are blocked as are some FMs from the Keys that have or had news.

Cuba is 800 miles wide, and there are several hundred AM station on the air there now. The only non-used channels are high on the band and where no South Florida station might be heard. Per Cuban lists, there are 263 AMs there and 338 FMs. All are owned by the central socialist party.

There is very little teaching of English in Cuba any longer so the majority of U.S. AM stations are not threat anyway.
 
I'm in Dayton, NV for a week Cat sitting for 2 Cats

On my Sangean DT-200X at 7:07pm for a brief moment was listening to Animal by Def Leppard on 92.5 the Hog fringe signal

Got 92.5 the Breeze Sacramento on a cloudy day
 
DavidEduardo said:
Everything on Cuban radio is controlled by the central government, and there are "monitors" at each network, both national and regional, to check all stations.
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DavidEduardo said:
There is very little teaching of English in Cuba any longer so the majority of U.S. AM stations are not threat anyway.
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I was just thinking that a popular US radio music show from 40 years ago might be seen as sufficiently non-ideological, that the government might see it as entertaining for the masses, and not feel threatened by it. I do know that the regime takes a very light-hearted view of copyright laws, something about there being no protections because of the embargo, or something like that. Do I have that right?
 
IM42A said:
I was just thinking that a popular US radio music show from 40 years ago might be seen as sufficiently non-ideological, that the government might see it as entertaining for the masses, and not feel threatened by it. I do know that the regime takes a very light-hearted view of copyright laws, something about there being no protections because of the embargo, or something like that. Do I have that right?
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I seriously don't believe Cuba is running AT40 reruns in English. WQMV, Waverly, TN (which tends not to power down at night) is likely. Programs.
 
IM42A said:
I was just thinking that a popular US radio music show from 40 years ago might be seen as sufficiently non-ideological, that the government might see it as entertaining for the masses, and not feel threatened by it.
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The masses don't speak English.
IM42A said:
I do know that the regime takes a very light-hearted view of copyright laws, something about there being no protections because of the embargo, or something like that. Do I have that right?
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That's a moot question. There is no way that a Cuban radio station, all of which are run by the central communist political organization, would run an American pop music show.
 
5/2 12:25 AM 1210 KC WTXK Pikes Road (Montgomery, AL). Just had the !@#$% scared out of me. I heard ESPN Radio on 1210. Ok, did WPHT flip to sports radio? No!
Never knew this station existed before tonight. They're putting a good signal into Destin this morning with 3 watts! Naturally I assumed it was 'PHT! It is worth staying up late! Just 1 tower, and a new one. Also heard a soft instrumental station in the background. Lord only knows where that's coming from! Good dx everyone.
 
That isn't 3 watts, Mike. Has to be on at least 5KW critical hours and someone forgot to switch to flea power.
 
crainbebo said:
That isn't 3 watts, Mike. Has to be on at least 5KW critical hours and someone forgot to switch to flea power.
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Maybe. Also heard WBOJ 1270, (Boomer 102.5) unusually strong at that time. Is it possible conditions were incredibly good?
Often here conditions improve after midnight or so. Boomer supposedly runs 237 watts.
 
Just bagged KMOK-106.9 Lewiston for NEW #213 from Cascade. 99KW at 143 miles. They ID as Canyon Country.
It's early May but no sign of Es yet. Just too early for most seasons. Around the 20th things should start kicking into high gear.
 
5/3 10:30 AM CST 101.1 WPPG "The Power Pig" Repton,AL country. 387 ft 3100 watts.

Heard WTXK again last night. Don't know what's going on with them. Shouldn't be getting them.

11:00 WHLW 104.3 Luverne,AL serving Montgomery. 13,500 watts 1713 ft gospel.
They used to be oldies, but flipped to gospel several years back. Powerful signal, not usually heard here.
 
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A few new FM logs the past few days:

Saturday night: KLRH-92.9 Reno NV on meteor scatter, K-LOVE with an Elevation Worship concert promo, matched to local 99.5. 48KW at 391 miles, and NEW #214.

Last night: Two new logs. One meteor scatter and one was via aircraft/tropo scatter.
97.1 KALS Kalispell MT w/ match to Jeremy Camp song "My Defender" as heard on the Your Network of Praise stream. This was probably the same station I heard faintly with a sermon 20 minutes prior. Multiple cargo jets flew just to the north resulting in the reception. NEW #215, 26.5KW at 255 miles.
92.5 KLAD-FM Klamath Falls OR; RDS PI 2D0F caught on a meteor scatter burst. NEW #216, 63KW at 326 miles.

Sporadic-E season just began with an opening around 10 ET last night between the Midwest and NC/VA/MD area, MUF in the 100s briefly.
A Rabbitears Autologger will be going up soon, and possibly the capability to use the TEF6686 as a remote SDR. Since I will probably be working all summer, I will need the autologger and some type of recording capability a majority of the time.
 


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