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Cuba FM tropo into Tampa Bay!

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TerryKay

Great tropo opening to Cuba (as heard in Pinellas County) noted at 2128+ GMT today, 7 April (5:28 p.m. EDT).

96.7 MHz Radio Rebelde, unknown site, Ciudad de la Habana; the first one heard today, often local level and stereo, Cuban pop vocal, then female with ID and news headlines at 2130, back to music. Parallel 1180 kHz. Standard Rebelde audio, not "Rebelde F-M" feed. Stereo.

99.1 MHz Radio Musical Nacional, unknown site, Ciudad de la Habana; 2145 tune-in to female opera, quickly confirmed Musical as parallel 590 kHz. Very good at times, stereo.

99.9 MHz Radio Cadena Habana, Marianao, Ciudad de la Habana; 2153 tune-in to Cuban-accented Spanish man, short fill music. Turned out to be baseball game coverage. "Esta es Radio Cadena Habana" canned ID by man at 2204, back to game. Good on peaks, stereo.

Thus far, no other Cuban FMers (or Yucatán/Quintana Roo, México) stations coming in. Great stuff! First Musical Nacional and Cadena Habana FM logs ever for me.

For a great Florida ground-clutter mapper, visit:

http://www25.brinkster.com/awh/multinexrad.htm

This is a collection of NEXRADs for the entire state plus Cuba and the Gulf
Coast, as grouped on one URL by by friend, David Crawford, Titusville, FL; the radar returns typically correlate to FM tropo pretty well. As
you can see this evening, looking at the Casablanca/Habana radar, the SW
coast of FL is lit up pretty well.
 
> Great tropo opening to Cuba (as heard in Pinellas County)
> noted at 2128+ GMT today, 7 April (5:28 p.m. EDT).
>
> Thus far, no other Cuban FMers (or Yucatán/Quintana Roo,
> México) stations coming in. Great stuff! First Musical
> Nacional and Cadena Habana FM logs ever for me.

Several years ago when I was driving on Useless-One way down in the Lower Florida Keys I did some fun FM scanning with rather interesting and exciting results during the late-afternoon hours. I expected to pick-up a lot of Cuban stations. What I got instead was virtually every single frequency occupied with varying amounts of strength and fade-ins-and-outs from stations not only along the Gulf Coast of Florida (including the panhandle), but also from Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, and Arkansas. I was sort of freaked-out at the time. I thought my radio was possessed. Seriously though I haven't been down there since then, but I'm thinking about taking the 3-hour drive down to Key West sometime in the next few months. I'll have to log what I hear when I do that.

THE MAJOR
 
Alabama and Austin

A few years ago I was able to listen to 92.9 WBLX Mobile Al. for two days with no static at all.

One night I was able to pick up a bi-lingual Tex Mex station from Austin. They used a cow noise as their symbol.
 
Re: Alabama and Austin

> A few years ago I was able to listen to 92.9 WBLX Mobile Al.
> for two days with no static at all.
>
> One night I was able to pick up a bi-lingual Tex Mex station
> from Austin. They used a cow noise as their symbol.


One night I picked up the Coneheads Family Values Network from Remulak.
>
 
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