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Analog DX from Cuba on RF 3 now (1200 Fri 10 July)

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I am getting Cubavision on analog RF 3 right now, in Columbia SC. They are airing the program Al Mediodía, which corresponds to Cubavision's online schedule. It has been in since about 1145 AM EDT.

Sadly, information on analog TV, and what channels are still on analog, isn't as easy to come by for Cuba as it is for Canada. I'll keep digging. I am trying to roll tape, but my VCR has a blue-screen function that I cannot defeat (assuming it could be), as I do not have a proper remote for this old JVC VCR/DVD combo. I got it at Goodwill and it didn't come with a remote. My generics can't handle menu functions. I am hoping that during the strongest signal surges, the signal will override the blue-screen threshold.

I can't furnish exact distance information, as I don't know where the transmitter is. I will have a screenshot as soon as I can scale it down enough to upload.
 
Has anyone else ever gotten in an analog TV station from Cuba recently? The only person I know of is maybe this guy in Florida on Youtube:
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Florida TV DX

The official YouTube channel of egrabow.com (and me, Ryan Grabow). I post recordings of TV DX, old and new, and some AM/FM recordings too. I also collaborate with other DXers. There are also local bandscan videos throughout Florida, and also from interstate road trips. Rather than wait for the...
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Mediafrog+ said:
According to listings on the DXInfocentre site this would either be Santa Clara or Holguin.

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Thanks. I got similar information from a very old Television Factbook. If CMEC Santa Clara is indeed running higher power, it was probably them, but there's no way to know for sure. In theory, it could have been both CMEC and CMKC Holguin swapping back and forth.

At least we can know that it was either one or the other.
 
I was able to roll two hours of tape, from roughly 11:55 am to 1:55 pm, and I am going through it now. This was not absolutely spectacular DX, nonetheless, it was something, and can be narrowed down to two stations. Both analog DX and low-VHF DX are hard to come by anymore, and anything's better than nothing. A day well spent.
 
Cuba has been implementing digital television for a number of years, though the country’s economic woes have likely hindered further development and delayed the analog shutdown, which is a plus for TV DXers.

Cuba’s digital TV stations use a modified version of the Chinese DTMB standard, so not compatible with sets in the U.S. However converter boxes for that specific system can be found on the gray market.
 


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