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Classical Music on 1140

cyberdad

cyberdad

Here during my stay in the St. Pete Beach area, I've been hearing classical music on 1140 each of the last few late evenings. Mostly classical piano. Signal is good, the audio not so much so.

I'm guessing this is coming from Cuba, but I can't match it with any of the usual Cuban networks audible here 24/7. It's not R. Nacional...or at least what I'm getting on 590. Anyone know what this is? It's comfortably on top of the channel, with what I presume is WRVA underneath.
 
I read your post during the afternoon and all I got then was WTMP splatter.

But I just checked out 1140 now (around 6:45 pm) and I'm hearing a Spanish station with a fair listenable signal and classical music way in the background.

I listened to the online audio for WQBA Miami and the Spanish station I'm hearing is them. Didn't think it was at first because the delay online is about a minute.

Have no clue where that music is from.
 
Gar: I was going to specifically ask if you had heard this one. I wouldn't rule out R. Nacional. That would assume more than one transmitter, and it is true that 590 gets stepped on at night, so it's not always easy to check to see if it's the same broadcast. But I'm still guessing that it's something else.

On another matter, we were talking about 790 the other day. Last night (Sunday) it was WAXY (Miami) solid and on top with basically the tones on R. Reloj the only other thing breaking through. I've heard Miami here a few times in the past, but not all that often and definitely not as strong as last night.
 
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Quick update: The classical music on 1140 was absent last night. Not sure what it means or what to make of it, but conditions were generally rather lousy. I'll keep monitoring the channel.
 
I only heard the classical music early on, as I mentioned in my last post, but the rest of the night I didn't and 1140 sounded kind of like a graveyard frequency.
 
I spent more than an hour on 1140 last night and also for a little while before dawn this morning. I'm still pretty much at square one. I heard mostly Spanish, but no dominant station and almost no music. Conditions were generally a little better than the night before....especially from Mexico. But fading was still "rampant" on the channel, and there was nothing I could identify.
 
I'm ready to throw in the towel for my "chase" on 1140. I spent about a half hour there this morning. There was music (sounded like traditional pop, not classical) and Spanish, but fading and nothing that I could match or identify. I was thinking WQBA (Miami), but they don't throw much signal in this direction, even on 50kw day pattern. Nothing else listed in R-L that shows Spanish on 1140 in the eastern US. There were five stations showing from Mexico. The only one with much power (10kw) is directional to the west. So I'm guessing what I heard was something from the Caribbean, Central America, or South America. Central America could be plausible given that the path from the west has been very good. XEX, XEOY, XEG (presumably) and XEEP among those that were blasting in last night and this morning. (Classical on XEEP)
 
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