When everyone is gone they're gone. I'm happy for the holdovers.
That is the likely cause, and has been going on for quite a while. There have been a few recent occasions when I’ve checked the Radio Marti shortwave frequencies and found no sign of jamming. Missing RHC transmissions have been widely and regularly reported on various SW forums.
That rebuild happened about 20 years ago for the SW transmitters. Seems BBEF units have durability issues; a couple of Chinese sites built in Albania around the same time had transmitters starting to die after only 15 years.
Shortwave, I assume, would finally be put out of its misery should that regime change occur.
Wouldn’t surprise me if even the current regime finally dumps the SW service. Definitely gone under any new government.
There have not been jammers on 1180 for decades. What Cuba has done is put about 20 stations across Cuba on 1180 carrying one of the national government networks. Instead of jamming, they are blocking Martí with strong local signals everywhere.
i hear them all the time... in fact, i regularly.. daily hear the jammers on for HOURS after marti is off.
One would think that they would have secured solar panels from their Communist buddies: China. Not a total answer but assuming their power peaks are like the US and air conditioning is a major part of the peak.
They can't grow enough even for their own people to eat decently.
Not enough. While there are some European hotel chains there, their sales point is being a low cost alternative to PR or the Dominican Republic or the islands like Jamaica and the Caymans.
Remember, Cuba is 800 miles wide. It takes dozens of stations to cover the main markets; ground conductivity is not good. And even Cuba is moving away from AM. In smaller Caribbean nations and destinations, like Martinique and Curacao and Trinidad and Jamaica, AM has been gone for decades.
