Turks/Caicos AM 530

[romer979fm]

while driving in this morning (Nashville) around 4:30 central...
a constant tone was covering the espanol religion on 530.
the Turks/Caicos station was there...but WAY under the tone.
BTW the tone was NOT local...but didn't fade much, either

anyone have an idea as to who this might have been?

 

[davideduardo]

while driving in this morning (Nashville) around 4:30 central...
a constant tone was covering the espanol religion on 530.
the Turks/Caicos station was there...but WAY under the tone.
BTW the tone was NOT local...but didn't fade much, either

anyone have an idea as to who this might have been?

Cuba? For a while, Cuba was jamming the airborne (Commando Solo) Radio Marti Saturday broadcast on 530. I don't know if the airborne thing is still running, but Cuba may actually be doing preventative jamming. Just a guess.

The Radio Martí website still lists 530 as active on Saturday, but the last program schedule update was Summer of 2006.

 

[DG02816]

Cuba is a good guess. I'd also think about the stations in Europe on 531 kHz as well, heterodyning with RVC.

 

[rbrucecarter5]

Cuba is a good guess. I'd also think about the stations in Europe on 531 kHz as well, heterodyning with RVC.

Switzerland and Algeria have good signals - according to my list. But they would be evening - not morning - phenomena because European sunrise occurs hours before your sunrise, ending TA reception.

 

[EastBay]

What's the furthest west anyone has picked up Turks/Caicos 530 in the US? I keep trying out here in northern California and every once in a while I think I hear a spanish station way in the background, but not sure if it's the T&C station or just something more local.

 

[davideduardo]

Cuba is a good guess. I'd also think about the stations in Europe on 531 kHz as well, heterodyning with RVC.

Switzerland and Algeria have good signals - according to my list. But they would be evening - not morning - phenomena because European sunrise occurs hours before your sunrise, ending TA reception.

Yep, it's evening mostly. Remember, the skip, if a single hop, may occur somewhere in the mid-Atlantic. So one needs darkness at the skip locations and at the reception location. Most of my TA's from Ohio (ranging from the easy like Portugal and Lgeria) to Egypt and Algeria and Albania were in the few hours after sign on in the country, meaning that you might have an opening as early as 9 PM EST for some places far East.

 

[davideduardo]

What's the furthest west anyone has picked up Turks/Caicos 530 in the US? I keep trying out here in northern California and every once in a while I think I hear a spanish station way in the background, but not sure if it's the T&C station or just something more local.

It's pretty common among DXers in CA, but most logged it when it first went on the air and consider it a pest now.

there is or used to be a 530 in Costa Rica, and one in Quito, Ecuador as well as several with decent power (1 with 10 kw outside Buenos Aires) in Argentina so T&C is not the only Spanish station on 530. Even the multiethinc Toronto staiton has some Spanish, i believe.

 

[mimo]

What's the furthest west anyone has picked up Turks/Caicos 530 in the US? I keep trying out here in northern California and every once in a while I think I hear a spanish station way in the background, but not sure if it's the T&C station or just something more local.

It's pretty common among DXers in CA, but most logged it when it first went on the air and consider it a pest now.

there is or used to be a 530 in Costa Rica, and one in Quito, Ecuador as well as several with decent power (1 with 10 kw outside Buenos Aires) in Argentina so T&C is not the only Spanish station on 530. Even the multiethinc Toronto staiton has some Spanish, i believe.

Yes they do, they have a couple of hours on the weekends at night, and they also have a fair amount of portugese programming at night. Although not as much as they did 10 years ago, when they had spanish programming 6 days a week. The Italian, Portugese and Spanish programming that were dominant at the time might explain why they applied and were granted the call letters CIAO. With 1610 in Toronto being predominantly spanish, the vast majority of the spanish programming went there, and CIAO 530 only carries it when CHHA 1610 isn't. On an interesting sidenote...I get both Turks and Caicos and Toronto battling it out. Although not at the same time..I have to null one to get the other. The Turks and Caicos Islands were at one point considering joining Canada, but that obviously never happened, much to our dismay. After a day like today, I could use a tropical island.

 

[TerryKay]

It is Radio Enciclopedia from Cuba. In mid-December, they flipped audio from Radio Cadena Habana (and before that, Radio Rebelde) to Enciclopedia. Format is canned EZL music, mostly but not all instrumentals, female canned announcer and occasional short "history" segments. It is excellent level daytime here.

 

[newsmark]

Thanks for the info, TerryKay. It get a very good signal from Radio Enciclopedia (or at least the EZL music) just after sunset here in North Texas.)