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Radio Habana Cuba
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This is a list of the broadcast times and frequencies from their website, but it’s from 2020-2021:
www.radiohc.cu
Here’s a programming schedule but I don’t know how up to date it is:
www.radiohc.cu
Home | Radio Havana Cuba | International Broadcaster
www.radiohc.cu
Home | Radio Havana Cuba | International Broadcaster
www.radiohc.cu
Cuba is still all over shortwave and sounds like absolute garbage.
modulation is often about -10 percent or audio is all fuzzy and distorted.
they still have a numbers station on SW.
They also ran amuck for several days earlier this year on SW with all kinds of shenanigans. Read this
modulation is often about -10 percent or audio is all fuzzy and distorted.
they still have a numbers station on SW.
They also ran amuck for several days earlier this year on SW with all kinds of shenanigans. Read this
Cuban Numbers Station HM01 Goes Cuckoo! And Other Cuban Broadcast “Shenanigans”…
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Pete Madtone, who shares the following recording of Cuban Numbers Station HM01 and notes: Hi Thomas, I was reading HF Underground earlier and a post on it me…
swling.com
About the only RCH frequencies/transmitters that have good modulation are mainly used by China Radio International.
Nope.. not even thoughs. I've heard CRI from Cuba with modulation less then 40 percent on 9580, 5990, etc. Audio quality there is always good, but modulation sucks wind.
Couple of them are 100% mod but I've only heard CRI on them.
That's my point. RCH doesn't seem to use those.
That's my point. RCH doesn't seem to use those.
I've NEVER heard 100 percent modulation on anything from RHC/CRI in Cuba
I have, but it had to have been no later than the early 1990s, coinciding with the end of the USSR.
Remember, those were the final days of the Russian transmitters, which were high-level plate modulated and very over-built. They were not the greatest in fidelity, but you could modulate the heck out of them. The Chinese solid state gear is "quieter" and not built to do high level with positive peaks over 100%.
Up to about 20 years ago, RHC was sounding fine. It was arguably the clearest and loudest SW signal in the hemisphere by that time.
And on the University of Twente SDR, Egypt and Iran today sound like they throw out gazillions of watts, but (I swear) only 5% modulation. I'm thinking it might be that Soviet transmitter problem and extinct parts.....
And on the University of Twente SDR, Egypt and Iran today sound like they throw out gazillions of watts, but (I swear) only 5% modulation. I'm thinking it might be that Soviet transmitter problem and extinct parts.....
Iran will sometimes modulate .. sometimes.. their audio is usually at least udnerstandbale.
Cairo sounds like aliens are coming to reposess the transmtiter or that its dying a slow death in the sand
Here's a few clips of cairo from this year as heard in alaska
R. Cairo 9850khz 1813UTC Tue Aug 29, 2023.MP3
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I'd rather listen to Radio Marti! It's got unbiased news coverage and thoughtful reporting of events in Cuba and around the globe. Thankfully, it gives Cubans a chance to learn about America other than through their government channels. And I'm sure that the listeners there can get past the jamming in order to listen to it. I especially enjoy their music programs.
My memories of Radio Havana Cuba go back to the 70s, when their English language service was wrapped up by "The Voice of Vietnam" with the same open one would hear on the actual Voice of Vietnam (10040 I think). Apparently RHC got a script from Hanoi to read locally (despite every reference on the news back then, there was no "Radio Hanoi").Iran will sometimes modulate .. sometimes.. their audio is usually at least udnerstandbale.
Cairo sounds like aliens are coming to reposess the transmtiter or that its dying a slow death in the sand
Here's a few clips of cairo from this year as heard in alaska
R. Cairo 9850khz 1813UTC Tue Aug 29, 2023.MP3
RHC's modulation wasn't good, especially on the day-and-night frequency 11760, which was I guess supposed to mimic a domestic service for Latin America. Every RHC English newcast seemed to start with "The U.S. Imperialists are criminally oppressing the people of _______."
Thanks for providing your take on their material. I know some Spanish, but not enough to really understand much of what they cover (although I did hear about the start of the Ukraine War on Marti when tuning in, I could decipher that).
When I listen to Marti, I hear a lot of what seems to be interviews with people reporting from inside Cuba, talking on their cell phones, some of them with very heavy Cubano accents. Is that what I'm hearing?
I'd think anyone reporting to Radio Marti from inside Cuba would be putting themselves at severe risk.
They indeed are at risk. If reported to a "Neighborhood Committee" of the Party, you could be deprived of the more desirable things at the food markets, demoted at work, not allowed to raise vegetables or chickens in the yard and so on.
However, there have always been people who would report covered up news events and the general misery of the "common folks" there.
Twice since its founding I was hired to do the annual report on Martí required by Congress. That involved a lot of in-depth talking with the staff and considerable listening to the "product". There were, indeed, many who ran the risk of sacrifices or even imprisonment to let people know how bad it was living there.
That's what I was thinking. But who are these people on their cell phones talking to Marti?
So, from what you're saying, it seems that some of these 'reports' (via cell phone?) from Cuba are from people inside Cuba?
In the past, before cell phones, they sent clandestine messages or even had mail dropped in Miami by diplomats and people on business visas. Fishing boats would send messages for a fee once they were out of Cuban waters, too. There were all kinds of ways of getting messages out... they most common being in communications with family living in Miami.
There's cell service in Cuba?