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Cuban stations

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I guess because the dx opening is from the south lately, I'm getting a lot of Cuban stations: 560, 570, 600, 610, 620, 630, 640, 660, 670, 690, 700, 710, 730, 740, 750, etc all the way up the dial. I think they're Cuban because the same Spanish program will be playing on a whole series of frequencies.

Tonight they were stronger than 880 New York. I'm 300 miles from New York and 1000 from Cuba (central Virginia). Weird. Can't remember the last time I've seen it this bad.
 
If you haven't already, try 530, 870, and 950. 530 will be instrumental music with female announcer. 870 and 950 will be "news" with time tone sound effects. Thus, anything that turns up from Cuba will be easy to identify on all of these channels.
 
I was getting a Cuban station on 570 just now here in Vermilion, OH. The WWV-like ticking with the Spanish gave it away. In fact, I'm uploading a nighttime AM bandscan right now and you'll be able to hear it on there. I'll post the link soon as it's done uploading.
 
I'm well north of NYC, but those Cubans can throw a knock out punch, sometimes throwing WOR and WSYR (Syracuse, which is closer to me), etc, out of the ring.

~BG
 
Cuba jams the AM band so that news from our AM stations doesn't reach Cubans.

Then again, we're jamming our own AM band with IBUZ.
 
Nick said:
Cuba jams the AM band so that news from our AM stations doesn't reach Cubans.
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The only US stations Cuba truly "jams" consistently are WAQI-710 and Radio Martí-1180. And the jamming is not the traditional type (noise broadcast on the same channel) but local stations that simply block foreign ones.

In the past, 1140 WQBA was jammed with a heterodyn creator just off 1140, and 670 and 1550, both in Miami, have been blocked or jammed.

Note that all of the stations mentioned broadcast in Spanish, generally with content unflattering to the Cuban government.

The Cubans have no interest in blocking English stations, as few Cubans in Cuba speak English. They do, however have no respect for protecting other stations, and have caused interference on nearly every channel on AM... but that's not jamming.
 
David, I defer to you because you have a far greater breadth of knowledge and experience with this stuff than I do....including your first-hand experience with stations in the market. I aalso think your comment on Cuba having no interest in blocking English-language stations, but also having no respect for protecting other statios nicely sums up that question.

But, respectfully, it also strikes me as least a little more than happenstance that strong Cuban signals just so happen to reside on 670, 1140, and 1550. (Although I admit that blocking the weaker 1550 signal doesn't seem to make much sense).
 
Tincap said:
I'm well north of NYC, but those Cubans can throw a knock out punch, sometimes throwing WOR and WSYR (Syracuse, which is closer to me), etc, out of the ring.

~BG
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I remember once only 80 miles south of New York, the Cuban on 880 over powered WCBS for a short while.
 
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