UNID 710 station 3/13/2010

[boiseengineer]

Actually WAQI's about 130 miles north-east of Key West.

 

[stormy01]

There used to be an AM on 710 up around Sacramento (Carmichael, I think). Have they gone dark, or is that a possibility?

710 in Carmichael/Sacramento is still there - no en español - it's a Christian station called The Light http://www.kfia.com/

 

[cyberdad]

There used to be an AM on 710 up around Sacramento (Carmichael, I think). Have they gone dark, or is that a possibility?

710 in Carmichael/Sacramento is still there - no en español - it's a Christian station called The Light http://www.kfia.com/

Indeed. They were throwing a pretty decent signal (day) into Napa Valley when I was there several weeks ago.

 

[davideduardo]

There used to be an AM on 710 up around Sacramento (Carmichael, I think). Have they gone dark, or is that a possibility?

Again, it is highly unlikely to have salsa, which is afro-antillean music, on any AM station in the Southwest.

 

[crainbebo]

I've gotten KFIA 710 before, at sunset.

-crainbebo

 

[boiseengineer]

Interesting night. This is a N-S path night for sure. Diff Spanish station on 710. Male talking, a lot. But loops E-S-E from Boise. Faint SS w/music under looping E-S-E. KIRO in & out w/ Mariners baseball (top of the 6th Reds lead 3-2, tying run on 3rd) . Noted XEROK 800 in big time too. Don't hear them normally.

 

[davideduardo]

Interesting night. This is a N-S path night for sure. Diff Spanish station on 710. Male talking, a lot. But loops E-S-E from Boise. Faint SS w/music under looping E-S-E. KIRO in & out w/ Mariners baseball (top of the 6th Reds lead 3-2, tying run on 3rd) . Noted XEROK 800 in big time too. Don't hear them normally.

While there are a dozen Mexican stations, the bearing would also fit YVKY in Caracas, 100 kw.

 

[crainbebo]

I'll check tonight under KIRO if I hear SS on 710, then I'll listen to 5025 (Radio Rebelde) and see if it matches. If it dosen't match, do I automatically have Venezuela in my log?

-crainbebo

 

[crainbebo]

UPDATE-9:25PM

Hearing (I think) very faint music under KIRO on 710. Only lasted about one second before the roaring of the crowd for Mariners preseason training baseball took over. 5025 Cuba has music on right now. Are we getting closer to the end of this mystery?

-crainbebo

 

[davideduardo]

I'll check tonight under KIRO if I hear SS on 710, then I'll listen to 5025 (Radio Rebelde) and see if it matches. If it dosen't match, do I automatically have Venezuela in my log?

-crainbebo

Not necessarily. During many periods over the last 20-some years that WAQI has been an anti-Castro station, the Cuban stations on 710 have been a mix of Rebelde repeaters and independent stations.

 

[cyberdad]

During many periods over the last 20-some years that WAQI has been an anti-Castro station, the Cuban stations on 710 have been a mix of Rebelde repeaters and independent stations.

I think what's been on 710 recently from Cuba is R. Rebelde. I'm back for the next two weeks at the place where we stay on the gulf coast....directly on the beach, about 22 miles southwest of downtown Pensacola, exactly on the FL-AL state line (Alabama is literally three doors to the west of me.)

Anyway, I drove down here Thursday evening from Birmingham....a four hour trip during the pre-and post sunset hours. My rental car had a good radio, so I was sampling the local DX. I hadn't realized until you wrote about it that the Cubans actually have four transmitters on 710 to block WAQI. This was confirmed in the car when I heard an echo effect on 710. The echo is absent here on the beach, where apparently one "top dog" overrides the others.

I haven't gotten around to "cross checking" what's on 710 with what's on 5025, but I will....and post the result. It's easy enough to do because, as posted previously, 5025 has a fine signal here 24/7. The Cuban 710, meanwhile, is audible under semi-local WNTM daytime and completely obliterates it at night. (I'm about 50 miles from WNTM's 1kw stick in Mobile....no saltwater path...and the ground conductivity around here is terrible. The result is a rather puny signal).

One other note from my Thursday night drive....

I was getting what sounded like a jammer on 730 pretty much during the entire trip. Haven't heard it since on the other radios I have here with me (Eaton E-10 and SRF-37 Walkman). Does anyone know anything about this? I'm starting to wonder if it might have just been a glitch in an otherwise good rental car radio.

 

[cyberdad]

Update....

This morning I heard the same programming on 710 and 5025....although, for some reason, each seemed a little weaker than usual.

 

[schmave]

Actually WAQI's about 130 miles north-east of Key West.

And probably unlistenable in the Keys, no? How does WAQI's signal fare in its local area (day and night) before the Cubans cause it problems?

 

[davideduardo]

Actually WAQI's about 130 miles north-east of Key West.

And probably unlistenable in the Keys, no? How does WAQI's signal fare in its local area (day and night) before the Cubans cause it problems?

It's listenable daytime but hashed at night in Key West (although there is almost a 10 mv/m signal day and night there). From Marathon upwards it is an absolute local with over a 10 mv/m signal in the town in front of the Key Lime Pie place.

In Miami-Dade the station has at least a 20 mv/m over all the populated area. It's a killer Dade signal. The interference from the co-channels (not technically jammer, as it does not broadcast a tone or a warble) is seldom felt until you are out of the 10 mV/M coverage area.