Cuban Invasion, etc.

[radioman148]

Radioman, RR on 570 is the strongest one. You just have to null out WIND, which isn't that hard at night. It's not a strong signal anywhere I've been and difficult to listen to, yet the RR signal on 570 covers a huge geographic area. Figured it would boom into the west coast of FL at night, but it wasn't much better than it is up north. And, the local on 560 obliterates it in Miami/Dade.

I'll try it tonight if we don't have static crashes. Right now T-storms in the area.

 

[drt]

Radioman, RR on 570 is the strongest one. You just have to null out WIND, which isn't that hard at night. It's not a strong signal anywhere I've been and difficult to listen to, yet the RR signal on 570 covers a huge geographic area. Figured it would boom into the west coast of FL at night, but it wasn't much better than it is up north. And, the local on 560 obliterates it in Miami/Dade.

It depends on what part of the west coast of Florida you are as to how strong Radio Reloj on 570 booms in; if your're in Pinellas county south of Ulmerton Road (considered the dividing line for north and south Pinellas) you can hear the Cuban 570 beneath the local 570 during the day; at night it's worse. If you're in Manatee (Bradenton) or
Sarasota counties west of US 41 (Tamiami
Trail), the Cuban 570 booms in as well.

Today in my car, Radio Reloj 570 came in over WTBN 570 (local) several times briefly in and just south of downtown St. Petersburg.(this was around 2pm----6 hours before local sunset). Several years back, the FCC gave two local stations, temporary authorization to increase their daytime power to combat the Cuban interference. (the local 570 and 620 both took advantage of this).

Also in this same area the 530, 590 , 640, 670 and 710 (designed to jam 710 WAQI- Miami) come in well day and night; whereas in most of Tampa these same stations do not come in all that well during the day; Tampa is just enough inland, where the skip over the water doesn't intensify the signal like it does in the immediate coastal areas on the Suncoast.

drt

 

[BobOnTheJob]

> Every now and then Fidel cranks up the high power on his AM
> stations just to let us know he can still do it.

really, this is just differences in propagation. Fidel does not have high power transmitter that work that he is holding back. It just seems that way when you get a good norht-south skip effect

That's what I would think. If he had a huge transmitter at his disposal, wouldn't he use it all the time?

 

[gar hi]

Today in my car, Radio Reloj 570 came in over WTBN 570 (local) several times briefly in and just south of downtown St. Petersburg.(this was around 2pm----6 hours before local sunset). Several years back, the FCC gave two local stations, temporary authorization to increase their daytime power to combat the Cuban interference. (the local 570 and 620 both took advantage of this).

Also in this same area the 530, 590 , 640, 670 and 710 (designed to jam 710 WAQI- Miami) come in well day and night; whereas in most of Tampa these same stations do not come in all that well during the day; Tampa is just enough inland, where the skip over the water doesn't intensify the signal like it does in the immediate coastal areas on the Suncoast.

Yeah, there sure is a big difference in reception within our metro area. During the day in Tampa, the only Cuban I can get is the one on 530 and I can even notice the difference in that station where I am (north central Tampa) and the western part of Hillsborough county near Oldsmar. Where I live, 570 is way too strong to hear anything else.

 

[Lawppy]

Wow! A 3 1/2 year old threat started by me is coming back to life.

My antenna project is coming along. Some family friends gave me their old 28 foot tower, I rented a Budget truck to get it 18 miles back to my house and now my brother is helping me refurbish the tower and repaint it, which we look to get finished this weekend.

Next up is buying the supplies needed to ground this bad boy and the equipment needed to connect point A (antenna placed 32 feet above ground level) to point B (my receiver). I need a rotor, rotor wire and new coax, which shouldn't be a problem.

We hope to get this project completed on Memorial Day weekend. I am looking forward to the improved results and will definitely share those results in a thread.

I'm expecting a big difference in signal from 32 feet as opposed to 18 feet. I raised the tower (nothing more than a telescoping Radio Shack deal) about a foot out of the ground one time and heard a distant translator go from muddy to listenable.

 

[stormy01]

Many of us are looking forward to your DX reports from Michigan.

Did you have a posting at one time that included a website? I tried it, and it didn't work:
http://michradio.blogspot.com/
Do you have a website now?

 

[radioman148]

Wow! A 3 1/2 year old threat started by me is coming back to life.

My antenna project is coming along. Some family friends gave me their old 28 foot tower, I rented a Budget truck to get it 18 miles back to my house and now my brother is helping me refurbish the tower and repaint it, which we look to get finished this weekend.

Next up is buying the supplies needed to ground this bad boy and the equipment needed to connect point A (antenna placed 32 feet above ground level) to point B (my receiver). I need a rotor, rotor wire and new coax, which shouldn't be a problem.

We hope to get this project completed on Memorial Day weekend. I am looking forward to the improved results and will definitely share those results in a thread.

I'm expecting a big difference in signal from 32 feet as opposed to 18 feet. I raised the tower (nothing more than a telescoping Radio Shack deal) about a foot out of the ground one time and heard a distant translator go from muddy to listenable.

It will be interesting to hear about your results.

 

[Lawppy]

Many of us are looking forward to your DX reports from Michigan.

And I'M looking forward to my DX reports from Michigan. From 18 feet up, I can already get stations from up to 250 miles away on a regular basis. I can't wait to hear what is possible from 32 feet. I've proven that even one extra foot has made a big difference in signal strength from a distant translator.

Did you have a posting at one time that included a website? I tried it, and it didn't work.

I gave that website up. It was a radio blog and sometimes new music review that I really didn't enjoy doing all the time. It hardly got any hits, so it was just not even worth doing. I figured I could just post my DX reports and thoughts about radio in websites such as this one and get more feedback.

 

[trusty]

Radio Rebelde used to hammer WOR on 710 in the Philadelphia area at night (probably still does). I'd cry foul, except Tom Ray's IBOC exciter on WOR hammers WLW and WGN all over the east - so turnabout is fair game I guess.

I guess Cuba doesn't need to jam the States as much anymore since we've started jamming ourselves with IBOC...

 

[radioman148]

Radio Rebelde used to hammer WOR on 710 in the Philadelphia area at night (probably still does). I'd cry foul, except Tom Ray's IBOC exciter on WOR hammers WLW and WGN all over the east - so turnabout is fair game I guess.

I guess Cuba doesn't need to jam the States as much anymore since we've started jamming ourselves with IBOC...

Very true as it's getting harder to hear many of our own stations.