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Spanish on 1700

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dxer2_2000

Hi

Who is Spanish on 1700 ???. Heard here in Australia on 11 April. XEPE "Cash 1700" was putting in a super clear signal that night & the spanish one was mixed in.

Lately, Peru has been big on 1470 (what is their ID now? - doesn't appear to be CPN Radio anymore)

R.Marti on 1180 has also been big & KMIK "R.Disney" has been strong enough to be heard clearly on a car stereo!! ;D (a pioneer CD/MP3 tuner).

dxer2_2000 - New South Wales Australia
 
dxer2_2000 said:
Who is Spanish on 1700 ???. Heard here in Australia on 11 April. XEPE "Cash 1700" was putting in a super clear signal that night & the spanish one was mixed in.
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Probably Des Moines, Iowa, unless there's a station on 1700 in South America now. (it's my understanding there are a few expanded-band stations in Argentina now?)
 
dxer2_2000 said:
Hi

Who is Spanish on 1700 ???. Heard here in Australia on 11 April. XEPE "Cash 1700" was putting in a super clear signal that night & the spanish one was mixed in.

Lately, Peru has been big on 1470 (what is their ID now? - doesn't appear to be CPN Radio anymore)

R.Marti on 1180 has also been big & KMIK "R.Disney" has been strong enough to be heard clearly on a car stereo!! ;D (a pioneer CD/MP3 tuner).

dxer2_2000 - New South Wales Australia
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Nice catch on XEPE 1700. (I can hear it clearly in the daytime, btw. :))

KMIK at my location (El Cajon, CA) usually comes in about as strong as some locals. I sometimes get full quieting on my Panasonic RQ-SW10, even without using the Select-A-Tenna. (And, using the SAT, I can sometimes hear it around noon in the middle of winter.)
Also, in Santa Monica (Los Angeles) there's a 50kW spanish language station on 1580 - KBLA. Do you ever hear that one in Australia? It's directional aimed west / southwest or something like that.
Also, I can't find Radio Marti listed on Radio-Locator. (I must be looking in the wrong place I think.) What language is it in? I usually hear KERI from Wasco/Greenacres, CA, at night, but I think I DO get some spanish mixed in sometimes.
 
w9wi said:
dxer2_2000 said:
Who is Spanish on 1700 ???. Heard here in Australia on 11 April. XEPE "Cash 1700" was putting in a super clear signal that night & the spanish one was mixed in.
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Probably Des Moines, Iowa, unless there's a station on 1700 in South America now. (it's my understanding there are a few expanded-band stations in Argentina now?)
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1700 can also be, and probably is, the Brownsville, TX, affiliate of the La Preciosa network... Spanish oldies. And there may be as many as 150 to 200 X Band staitons in Argentina, which pioneered usage of frequencies above 1600 way before the US used them. Argentina "licences" on the national, Provincial and municipal level, so there is no accurate count of thes. On some X band channels, there are several different stations in just the Buenos Aires area (and a total of about 40 X banders in the metro) so it is hard ot identify them.
 
I get a real strong 1700 most nites in Englewood FL (about 70 mi S of Tampa and 2 mi away from the Gulf) but I am not fluent in Spanish (my son had about 5 yrs of high school-college Spanish but ain't around. Never have ID'd the station.
 
Radio Marti isn't on Radio-Locator because it's not licensed ;) Technically speaking, it's a government operation outside the auspices of the FCC, though they still abide by the 50kW limit and are adaquately spaced, both distance-wise and on the dial, away from other stations so as to comply with FCC regulations. But otherwise the station is strictly Radio Marti... no call letters, nothing.
 
Josh C. said:
Radio Marti isn't on Radio-Locator because it's not licensed ;) Technically speaking, it's a government operation outside the auspices of the FCC, though they still abide by the 50kW limit and are adaquately spaced, both distance-wise and on the dial, away from other stations so as to comply with FCC regulations. But otherwise the station is strictly Radio Marti... no call letters, nothing.
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No VOA station is licensed by the FCC... and Radio Martí is actually called the "Radio Martí Program" and reports to USIS.

1180 in Marathon is actually 100 kw and has been for maybe a decade or so. Since it is highly directional with every watt aimed at Cuba, it would not interfere with anyone in the US, no matter where they were, except for local coverage area overlap with Miami, Marathon and Key West stations that have a protected groundwave contour... although they could, in theory, do pretty much whatever they want.

The Cuban jammming/blocking of 1180 actually does affect WHAM, and has since 1180 was innaugurated.
 
vibe said:
I get a real strong 1700 most nites in Englewood FL (about 70 mi S of Tampa and 2 mi away from the Gulf) but I am not fluent in Spanish (my son had about 5 yrs of high school-college Spanish but ain't around. Never have ID'd the station.
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go to www.lapreciosa.com and pick the san jose, ca station and click on the listen button and compare the audio on 1700.... if it matches, it is Brownsville.
 
DavidEduardo said:
1180 in Marathon is actually 100 kw and has been for maybe a decade or so.
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Ah... I knew they were directional, but I didn't realize they'd gone up to 100kW. I thought they'd been 50 all along.

You're right: I can absolutely hear 1180 Cuba from here in Michigan when WHAM's skywave flutters out. It's faint, but it's there. In North Carolina (I lived there for a few years) they fight it out all night long.
 
robfwb said:
I think the 1180 out of cuba is directional just like the marathon.

Rob
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It's not because "it" is actually "they." The way Cuba blocks stations like WAQI and Mambí today is with a bunch of 1 kw to 30 kw stations all on 710 or 1180 along Cuba to interfere with the US signal.
 
Are those stations sharing frequencies at different power levels phase-synchronized, and if so, wouldn't they develop some kind of directional pattern? Maybe not the most effective pattern from a traditional operations standpoint, but one that would block the U.S. stations as effectively as possible (as that's obviously the goal). If so, would that signal be directional toward the U.S., or is it just that all that signal power being thrown into the atmosphere uncontrollably ends up here?
 
How much power does the non american stations use? I know there not limited to the 10KW 1K night like we are.

(on the expanded band)

Rob
 
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