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Is Cuba shutting down this year there Analog Signals on TV?
Is Cuba shutting down this year there Analog Signals on TV?
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E-Skip FM/TV Season 2018
- Thread starter MarioMania
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They chose to use the Chinese Digital DTMB standard, but keep the NTSC channels (7 - 51). China uses 8 MHz channel width, so sets and transmitters for Cuba have to be models using DTMB, but 6 MHz channel width. Apparently they have DTV set-top boxes, too:
http://www.radiorebelde.cu/english/...n-of-the-digital-television-in-cuba-20170619/
With all of those classic cars they drive there (and restore), I'm surprised Cuba is going digital! I thought they would be the last country left on analog.
Anyways, I'm ready for the e-skip season, and hearing FM signals from the Midwest and Southwest and California again. I still have the trusty Radio Shack DX-402, albeit I am now considering an SDR for this season as well. Had my eyes on the Airspy R2, now I'm thinking of buying the (equally-priced) SDRPlay RSP2. As much as I'd love one of those ELAD's, they are so expensive! An SDR will help me immensely with the skip season, especially when I'm working and cannot reach a radio. If I can record even a few mHz of bandwidth, I'll have a good chance at a lot of new logs this year through the unattended recordings. There's a 4 element Stellar Labs FM antenna that I'll likely use with an SDR.
I'm also planning on buying a TV antenna preamp. For some reason, I can't get anything outside of local stations, even with a decent 4-element indoor antenna. I'd like a CHANCE at DTV Es. KNOP, KDLO, KHSV, where art thou? In fact, during the 6/30/17 opening that brought double-hop to Waco, I ended up getting KSNE 106.5 Las Vegas with NO sign of a DT-2 subdecode! Something wrong with that picture I think!
As for Es targets this season, I'm not begging for another double-hopper, but I would like a decent high-MUF opening to South Dakota, Nebraska, western Iowa, etc. I need to work on that part of the United States - I get SD/NE/IA less often than you think.
Anyways, I'm ready for the e-skip season, and hearing FM signals from the Midwest and Southwest and California again. I still have the trusty Radio Shack DX-402, albeit I am now considering an SDR for this season as well. Had my eyes on the Airspy R2, now I'm thinking of buying the (equally-priced) SDRPlay RSP2. As much as I'd love one of those ELAD's, they are so expensive! An SDR will help me immensely with the skip season, especially when I'm working and cannot reach a radio. If I can record even a few mHz of bandwidth, I'll have a good chance at a lot of new logs this year through the unattended recordings. There's a 4 element Stellar Labs FM antenna that I'll likely use with an SDR.
I'm also planning on buying a TV antenna preamp. For some reason, I can't get anything outside of local stations, even with a decent 4-element indoor antenna. I'd like a CHANCE at DTV Es. KNOP, KDLO, KHSV, where art thou? In fact, during the 6/30/17 opening that brought double-hop to Waco, I ended up getting KSNE 106.5 Las Vegas with NO sign of a DT-2 subdecode! Something wrong with that picture I think!
As for Es targets this season, I'm not begging for another double-hopper, but I would like a decent high-MUF opening to South Dakota, Nebraska, western Iowa, etc. I need to work on that part of the United States - I get SD/NE/IA less often than you think.
The real issue is that production of analog TV sets has pretty much ended, so Cuba has been forced into adopting the new standard.
Keeping the existing TV's working forever isn't practical either. Many of the parts are just not available. It's not like improvising mechanical parts for old American cars.
Even though Cuba chose the DTMB standard, what they will probably end up with is the same basic models sold in the US, because the RF section has the same specs, but with a decoder chipset that handles DTMB, and possibly both ATSC and DTMB.
So the end is near for Analog TV in Cuba
Last Year to look for E's from Cuba
Last Year to look for E's from Cuba
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