Another Cuban on AM 530?

[cd637299]

Hi

It looks as if Radio Enciclopedia with its instrumentals on AM 530 is no longer alone. I also think they may have cut power.

It sounded last weekend as if Cuba added a Radio Rebelde on 530. It sounded just like SW 5025, but about a second behind.

Can anyone try and tune this, and tell me what they hear?

Adjusting my Select-a-Tenna, it seems as if the new 530 is due south of me, maybe just a tad west of Santa Clara.

cd

 

[gar hi]

As soon as I read this post, I tuned my radio to 530 and I'm hearing something in the background of Radio Enciclopedia too.

It's 7 pm now.

This other station is not nearly as strong though and seems to be coming from the same general direction.

I'll have to listen during the day too and see how it sounds.

 

[gar hi]

OK, it's now 20 minutes later and that other station has completely taken over Radio Enciclopedia which is now the weaker station way in the background!

Anyone up north hearing this?

 

[drt]

As soon as I read this post, I tuned my radio to 530 and I'm hearing something in the background of Radio Enciclopedia too.

It's 7 pm now.

This other station is not nearly as strong though and seems to be coming from the same general direction.

I'll have to listen during the day too and see how it sounds.

I have noticed this as well (day and night), starting about a week ago, one of the two stations seemed to simucasting the 1620 from Cuba at times. I receive the 1620 24/7 from St. Petersburg, first noticed the 1620 this past summer. At any rate with two stations now on 530, interfering with each other, 530 is no longer listenable from my location.

drt,
st. petersburg,fl

 

[davideduardo]

OK, it's now 20 minutes later and that other station has completely taken over Radio Enciclopedia which is now the weaker station way in the background!

Anyone up north hearing this?

A National Radio Club member in Colorado reports:

"R.Rebelde, Guantánamo NOV 19 0204 – Sports program with two men talking about
the ʺMaratón Cubanoʺ and other marathons; other sports items followed later, around 0217.
Fair at best, mixing with presumed RVC. Parallel to 5025 kHz shortwave."

 

[cd637299]

OK, it's now 20 minutes later and that other station has completely taken over Radio Enciclopedia which is now the weaker station way in the background!

Anyone up north hearing this?

A National Radio Club member in Colorado reports:

"R.Rebelde, Guantánamo NOV 19 0204 – Sports program with two men talking about
the ʺMaratón Cubanoʺ and other marathons; other sports items followed later, around 0217.
Fair at best, mixing with presumed RVC. Parallel to 5025 kHz shortwave."

From Colorado! And I can hardly hear it here in south FL....Go figure.

(But how do they know it's Guantanamo? They never announce the cities..... There was a time, not too many years back, that Radio Marti was using 530 from airplanes, IIRC, and Rebelde may have been on to jam it.... but I take it that this is the current log.)

cd

 

[gar hi]

Now that it's daylight, I checked out 530 and Radio Enciclopedia is as strong as always but I hear that other station much weaker in the background still.

 

[nocomradio]

Here in VA, I've been getting Cuba on 530 pretty strong for about two weeks or so after dark. Standard easy listening for a long time. In the last few days its been a garbled mix. Lots of interference here. I can't seem to really break either station out though this far North.

 

[gar hi]

Do you hear a woman's voice and music or is it a man's voice?

If it's the first one, you are hearing Radio Enciclopedia and not that other station.

 

[cyberdad]

As posted in another thread....here where I am this week in South Carolina, R. Enciclopedia has a very good signal. But there is something underneath. I'd been assuming that's CIAO, but now I'm not so sure. I'll see if I can establish whether it's Canada or R. Rebelde.

 

[cd637299]

As posted in another thread....here where I am this week in South Carolina, R. Enciclopedia has a very good signal. But there is something underneath. I'd been assuming that's CIAO, but now I'm not so sure. I'll see if I can establish whether it's Canada or R. Rebelde.

If you have shortwave, be sure to check 5025 for parallel to check if it's Rebelde. If not, you still have AM 670, 620, and the multiple 1180's.

cd

 

[cyberdad]

Thanks for the suggestion. Indeed I do have the DX375 with me. SW and FM are compromised due to a missing whip antenna, but both do still work to a point. Based on experience, R. Rebelde on 5025 probably wouldn't be a problem.

I was just in the car to pick up Mrs. Cyberdad from her event this evening, and sure enough, I had what I presume was R. Rebelde on 530. Man speaking over phone line...female voice (SS) underneath the station I was hearing.

What's odd is R. Enciclopedia was pretty much alone on the channel during each of the last two nights. Certainly nothing got on top of it at any point...including at least one 20-minute stretch last evening. Tonight in the car it was completely wiped out.

Don't know if there's any connection....but two nights ago WHO was alone on 1040. Last night it was "in and out" with Cuba. The Cuban had been totally absent that prior night. Perhaps conditions are simply highly variable...or perhaps there's something going on with the operations of the Cuban transmitters.

Conditions to the south, however, are somewhat different than the last two nights. The Cuban 670 is trashing WSCR, which hadn't been the case previously. That said...the Cubans seem largely absent from 710 and 890.

 

[radioman148]

Thanks for the suggestion. Indeed I do have the DX375 with me. SW and FM are compromised due to a missing whip antenna, but both do still work to a point. Based on experience, R. Rebelde on 5025 probably wouldn't be a problem.

I was just in the car to pick up Mrs. Cyberdad from her event this evening, and sure enough, I had what I presume was R. Rebelde on 530. Man speaking over phone line...female voice (SS) underneath the station I was hearing.

What's odd is R. Enciclopedia was pretty much alone on the channel during each of the last two nights. Certainly nothing got on top of it at any point...including at least one 20-minute stretch last evening. Tonight in the car it was completely wiped out.

Don't know if there's any connection....but two nights ago WHO was alone on 1040. Last night it was "in and out" with Cuba. The Cuban had been totally absent that prior night. Perhaps conditions are simply highly variable...or perhaps there's something going on with the operations of the Cuban transmitters.

Conditions to the south, however, are somewhat different than the last two nights. The Cuban 670 is trashing WSCR, which hadn't been the case previously. That said...the Cubans seem largely absent from 710 and 890.

Do you get WOR down there on 710?

 

[nocomradio]

Do you hear a woman's voice and music or is it a man's voice?

If it's the first one, you are hearing Radio Enciclopedia and not that other station.

It was a womans' voice like I am typically used to hearing on 530. That was before it became sort of hashed up now. Last night I really wasn't pulling in anything intelligible. That's using a Grundig G3.

 

[cyberdad]

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Do you get WOR down there on 710?

Yes. Fair signal...not as good as WFAN, WABC, or WCBS (the strongest New Yorker). WOR has been clearly dominating 710, but with two or three stations underneath. Presumably Cuba is among them, but I haven't been able to identify anything. I also was getting a pretty good signal from WQEW. No WBBR, however, with KWKH again owning 1130 here. No WINS either.

Back to the OT.... Back in the hotel room last night R. Enciclopedia was steady, and dominant on 530, although I'm pretty sure what was underneath was R. Rebelde. This was a 180 from what I was hearing in the car less than an hour earlier. Similar story on 670 with WSCR dominant once again....whereas in the car, Cuba had been trashing it.

I have no idea what the (heck) is going on. I doubt if the hotel superstructure is nulling stations. On top of that, earlier in the week....as well as on other channels last night...the results in the car and in the hotel room had been pretty similar.

 

[radioman148]

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Do you get WOR down there on 710?

Yes. Fair signal...not as good as WFAN, WABC, or WCBS (the strongest New Yorker). WOR has been clearly dominating 710, but with two or three stations underneath. Presumably Cuba is among them, but I haven't been able to identify anything. I also was getting a pretty good signal from WQEW. No WBBR, however, with KWKH again owning 1130 here. No WINS either.

Back to the OT.... Back in the hotel room last night R. Enciclopedia was steady, and dominant on 530, although I'm pretty sure what was underneath was R. Rebelde. This was a 180 from what I was hearing in the car less than an hour earlier. Similar story on 670 with WSCR dominant once again....whereas in the car, Cuba had been trashing it.

I have no idea what the (heck) is going on. I doubt if the hotel superstructure is nulling stations. On top of that, earlier in the week....as well as on other channels last night...the results in the car and in the hotel room had been pretty similar.

Which side of the hotel are you on? I've found that can make a big difference sometimes regarding what directions you can best DX.

 

[cyberdad]

North facing room....upper floor. Downtown Columbia. I've made the same observation as you in the past. Being on the north side of the hotel might explain R. Rebelde being absent in the hotel room, but probably doesn't explain 530. Also, XEEP, XEOY, and other stuff from Cuba/Mexico seem to be doing OK.

 

[radioman148]

North facing room....upper floor. Downtown Columbia. I've made the same observation as you in the past. Being on the north side of the hotel might explain R. Rebelde being absent in the hotel room, but probably doesn't explain 530. Also, XEEP, XEOY, and other stuff from Cuba/Mexico seem to be doing OK.

As we've all found out, radio waves are anything but predictable.

 

[cyberdad]

Same goes for quote boxes. ;D

 

[davideduardo]

(But how do they know it's Guantanamo? They never announce the cities.....

Groups like the NRC manage to get lists from local sources around the world. Or, and I have not checked, the Cuban Radio Institute may have a list of frequencies for Rebelde.