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Daytime AM/FM Bandscans from Cozumel

K

KR4BD

This is not much of a report, but I wanted to list the frequencies (AM & FM) where a station was detected at HIGH NOON (12:00-1:00 PM CST). ALL were in Spanish. I did ID two for sure...590 from Cuba and 790 "Radio Reloj" from Cuba. All were logged at NOON CST on February 28 on the West Coast of Cozumel (Is.), Mexico. Again, the radio used was a Tecsun PL-606.

AM Frequencies
560
590 (Beautiful Classical Music with Excellent Audio from "Radio Musica Nacionale from Havana, Cuba"
610
620
640
660 VERY Strong Signal
670
710 SEVERAL Mixing Signals -- Sounded like an Echo Chamber
730
740 The STRONGEST Signal Heard...probably Local
760 Nice Mix of Spanish Pop Music
790 Radio Reloj
860 Several signals mixing
880
960
990 Possibly Religious Preaching in Spanish
1030
1040
1070
1140 VERY Faint
1180 Two Signals Mixing it Up

That's it for AM....NOTHING HEARD above 1180! When I was last in Cozemel (1996), there was a local station on 1090 on the island, but that station is now apparently GONE....

FM Frequencies Heard:
89.9
93.9 Very Distorted Audio with RF Signal Level Jumping All over the place--otherwise strong.
98.1
105.1
106.3
107.7

Above FM's were heard at ground level (virtually sea level) using the short pull out whip on the PL-606
 
Your 710s and 1080s are from several sites in Cuba, where they run literally dozens of stations all over the island on both of those channels.
 
Your 740 is XECAQ in Puerto Morelos, Quintana Roo, very close to Cancun.
560 could be XEQAA in Chetumal, Quintana Roo, 170 mi.
610 likely XEUM Valladolid, Yucatan.
620 probably XEKX Felipe Carrillo Puerto, QR.
640 could be Cuba.
660 is probably XECPR also from Felipe Carrillo Puerto.
670 - maybe Cuba? I've picked up Radio Rebelde before. Should have tried 5025 to match!
710 probably the mess of Cubans
730 probably XEPET Peto, YU.
760 probably XEYU Merida, YU (175 miles but best possibility)
880 Cuban? Don't see anything close in Mexico
960 guessing XEROO Chetumal, QR 170 mi
990 - wow. Don't see ANYTHING close. Honduras?
1030 XENKA Felipe Carrillo Puerto, QR.
1040 - ????
1070 Also a ???? situation. Cuba possibly
1140 XECMP Campeche, CAM?
1180 probably the Cubans.

-crainbebo
 
640, 670, and 880 had to be Cuba. They all are heard daytime here in Tampa.

Nothing in the background on 560 at all that could possibly be WQAM Miami?

They really get out on the saltwater path and low frequency.

710 SEVERAL Mixing Signals -- Sounded like an Echo Chamber
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That's exactly what 710 sounds like here too in the day and night.

You're hearing the Cubans battling it out with the station in Miami.
 
The 740 has been heard in the day by yours truly at Honeymoon Island, west of Dunedin FL, near St. Pete. Not well, mind you, but it was there. The person above me can attest to that!

cd
 
crainbebo said:
Your 740 is XECAQ in Puerto Morelos, Quintana Roo, very close to Cancun.
560 could be XEQAA in Chetumal, Quintana Roo, 170 mi.
610 likely XEUM Valladolid, Yucatan.
620 probably XEKX Felipe Carrillo Puerto, QR.
640 could be Cuba.
660 is probably XECPR also from Felipe Carrillo Puerto.
670 - maybe Cuba? I've picked up Radio Rebelde before. Should have tried 5025 to match!
710 probably the mess of Cubans
730 probably XEPET Peto, YU.
760 probably XEYU Merida, YU (175 miles but best possibility)
880 Cuban? Don't see anything close in Mexico
960 guessing XEROO Chetumal, QR 170 mi
990 - wow. Don't see ANYTHING close. Honduras?
1030 XENKA Felipe Carrillo Puerto, QR.
1040 - ????
1070 Also a ???? situation. Cuba possibly
1140 XECMP Campeche, CAM?
1180 probably the Cubans.

-crainbebo
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Keep in mind that most of those Quintana Roo and Yucatán stations have migrated to FM now; it has been a year since the move began in the states of QR, Yucatán, Campeche and Tabasco and the AMs should mostly be silent now.

Only 4 or 5 AMs will be left in Quintana Roo.

So some of those stations could easily be Honduras or even Guatemala, but the most likely source of low band signals at Cozumel is Cuba.
 
KR4BD said:
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That's it for AM....NOTHING HEARD above 1180! When I was last in Cozemel (1996), there was a local station on 1090 on the island, but that station is now apparently GONE....
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The only AM left at Cozumel is 1180, the government station that has abbreviated operation hours and may, in fact, be silent.

The other stations moved to FM... just as 85% of all AMs in Mexico are doing. You were in the first zone to convert... Quintana Roo, Yucatan, Campeche and Tabasco started making the switch a year ago.
 
I remember 105.1 from when I was in Cancun in 1999. XHNUC - Radio Turquesa.
Very strong signal, I remember I was still listening to them
flying halfway over the Gulf going to Houston Texas.

The only other one I remember hearing regularly was XHYI 93.1 Mix FM -
Played lots of English music with Spanish DJs.

Other than that most of the FM dial was completely empty except for weak signals
I believe on 97.7 (XHWO or XHGL?) and 98.5 (XHMT?) from the southern part of the Hotel Zone.
 
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