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SPANISH ON 104.7

BostonRandy

BostonRandy

Looking for some help.

Picking up a signal on 104.7 in Spanish (assuming from NC as I'm getting trop into Myrtle Beach from as far north as Elizabeth City). Checked Radio-Locator.com to find WZUP in La Grange (listed as Spanish) but, according to a Wikipedia entry for WZUP, the station flipped to urban gospel/inspiration on June 1. I was able to decipher some religious conversation in Spanish before 1AM ET Friday June 3rd. Is this WZUP or another signal that's not in the database? Thanks!!
 
Someone on Wikipedia has a lot of fun editing the pages for stations around here. The Conner Media/Ron Benfield stations are the best ones to read. According to the Wiki, 98.3 in Washington was supposed to go to 10,000 watts or something a few years ago.

I just checked and 104.7 is still transmitido musica en espanol right now.

Did I get that right?
 
Thanks for the help. Format flips are always interesting when you're not directly involved in them.
 
Could this be E-skip? I know of 2 Cuban FMs on 104.7. Were there commercials? DX has been hot and heavy lately.

cd
 
No commercials that I could tell. No E-skip as there was nothing at all outside of trop to the NE of Myrtle Beach.
 
I have heard Cuban AM's in MYB as clear as a bell! In fact, I remember hearing Radio Rebelde on 670 AM during the daytime in the late 80's once (in MYB). To my knowledge, Rebelde has an FM in Havana, Cuba. However, on no Cuban station would you hear any religious talk. On Rebelde, it would most likely be music (a mix of Cuban Pop and Traditional Music, with an occassional US Oldie), news, or sports. I would bet WZUP en La Grange.
 
There is WKAQ in San Juan, Puerto Rico. If memory serves me correctly from the last time I was in that corner of the world (many, many moons ago), it was a Latin A/C station. Radio-locator gives their current branding as KQ105. I would actually believe a Cuban station would make that trip, before thinking you were kearing WKAQ...so still thinking WZUP.
 
B Lewis said:
I have heard Cuban AM's in MYB as clear as a bell! In fact, I remember hearing Radio Rebelde on 670 AM during the daytime in the late 80's once (in MYB). To my knowledge, Rebelde has an FM in Havana, Cuba. However, on no Cuban station would you hear any religious talk. On Rebelde, it would most likely be music (a mix of Cuban Pop and Traditional Music, with an occassional US Oldie), news, or sports. I would bet WZUP en La Grange.
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Indeed, Rebelde uses 96.7 in La Habana, and if not for the I-Block of WPOW 96.5, I could possibly hear it faintly each day. BTW one of the 104.7's I mentioned is a Rebelde, possibly near Santa Clara.

I hopped on this thread, because hearing Cuba on FM via skip from SC is not impossible at all.

Not sure if the 670 runs as much power as it once did....also Miami has a 50kW (in the day, anyway) station, WWFE, also Spanish.

cd
 
You are probably right about the power of 670 in La Habana. Back in the 80's, in protest of the US Government's sign on of Radio/TV Marti, Castro cranked up lots of his old Soviet AM transmitters. I could hear Rebelde and Progreso HERE IN NC like local stations at night. In fact, for a while, they put Radio Taino "La Turemisora De Cuba' ("Cuba's Tourist Station") on 1180 AM. At the time, Taino ran very little talk...just lots of more traditional Cuban Music and tourist information. Somewhere, I still have a cassette aircheck of that station, recorded in eastern NC in 1988...they were as clear as local station WCBT at something like 10pm. Eventually, Castro 'cranked 'em back' (guess he got tired of having to blackout entire cities to find the power to run those xmitters). However, I still hear Rebelde on 670 and Progresso on 640. Since then, Cuba has moved the Taino network to FM. However, occassionally, I can still hear 1180 from Cuba through the hash. I believe it's another Rebelde repeater. They use 1180 to counter The US's Radio Marti transmitter, also on 1180 AM. Strangely, one would think those Cuban stations use equipment from the 50's or something. But, from pictures I have seen on some of the sites, they seem somewhat modern...and they all stream. I know this isn't a thread about Cuban radio, but since it came up, I find the subject rather intersting. Sorry to veer away from the subject at hand. (--Curiosity - Have you ever been to Cuba, or did you gain your knowledge of Cuban radio in Florida, which certainly is possible? In south Florida, many of those stations (mostly AM) are very clear to this day.
 
@B Lewis:

Part of my DXn hobby is researching info on Cuban TV & radio; i go to the FL Keys, with proper antenna/equipment, for such a task!

R Taino streams as well, but I suppose you know that. It's 93.3 in La Habana.

AM 530 R Enciclopedia is certainly a throwback to the days of the "beautiful music" stations. I am sure that you have no problem hearing it up the coast at night. They do "rock out" sometimes. As long as it's instrumental, it seems that anything goes on RE! BTW I think the 530 was originally used to block R Marti, which since abandoned 530, but Cuba still uses it. They are on 94.1 in La Habana.

PM me if you'd like. BTW I boo-boo'd....I see that is is the Eastern NC board, and I thought it was SC. No matter, check your FM & TV the next 2 months; you might get Cuba!

cd
 
w00t said:
Someone on Wikipedia has a lot of fun editing the pages for stations around here. The Conner Media/Ron Benfield stations are the best ones to read. According to the Wiki, 98.3 in Washington was supposed to go to 10,000 watts or something a few years ago.

I just checked and 104.7 is still transmitido musica en espanol right now.

Did I get that right?
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I fixed the Wikipedia article based on what I read here.
 
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