I heard a powerful station in spanish last night on 705KHz or possible 704 or something in between (my old Eton 350 is not very accurate) This radio sometimes has shortwave bleed into the AM band, but I double checked using a diferent radio and it was definitely NOT an image. I'm thinking it was possibly a cuban station which was off frequency. Its doubtful a European station would be coming in that good. For a while it was at "local" quality.
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Whats that on 705 KHZ
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Possibly the Cuban Radio Rebelde off frequency. If you have a shortwave radio, check 5025 kHz for the same programming.
Possibly they are off frequency on purpose to put a whistle on 710, where Miami's WAQI (Spanish talk) sends its signal south----Cuba jams their message....
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Possibly they are off frequency on purpose to put a whistle on 710, where Miami's WAQI (Spanish talk) sends its signal south----Cuba jams their message....
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cd637299 said:
Sounds like a classic drifter from the 60's. Cuba, using European transmitters, was not guilty of this. And the jamming of Mambí in Miami is done by the 4 stations on 710 across Cuba... they basically obstruct Mambí making useful landfall.
But those old Czech transmitters from the 69's are old now, so one could be drifiting. Any signal on an absolutely clear channel tends to seem more powerful than it really is.
Just heard the legal ID for the Miami station on 710 (with whistle of course) which I've never noticed before. Since I don't speak spanish I always assumed 710 was from cuba. Usually I just hear slop. For some reason if I play with the bandwidth switch on my radio, one way the cuban station sounds better on 704Khz the other way on 705Khz.
Its coming in quite good again tonight, although with a little whistle since its off frequency.
What would be the proper frequency of this station 700 or 710?
BTW: I just checked the station on 5025 shortwave and its the same programming. So its definitely the cuban station broadcasting off frequency.
Its coming in quite good again tonight, although with a little whistle since its off frequency.
What would be the proper frequency of this station 700 or 710?
BTW: I just checked the station on 5025 shortwave and its the same programming. So its definitely the cuban station broadcasting off frequency.
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Definitely s'posed to be 710 to counter WAQI Radio Mambi. If you caught WAQI, you must be in FL, because it ain't easy anywhere else.
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Just checked and WAQI was coming in on 710, but Radio Rebelde (whichever one of the four I receive here on the fringe of downtown St. Pete was coming in best at 706.
Also Gar Fla, are you picking up a "new" (at least new as far as being received here) station from Havana on 1620? I used to get a station from the Florida panhandle on 1620; but for about the last 6 weeks, it's been a station that talks a lot about events in Havana, it's talk and music; some of the music is in English. This comes in day and night.
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Also Gar Fla, are you picking up a "new" (at least new as far as being received here) station from Havana on 1620? I used to get a station from the Florida panhandle on 1620; but for about the last 6 weeks, it's been a station that talks a lot about events in Havana, it's talk and music; some of the music is in English. This comes in day and night.
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I think I can answer this one. Rebelde has been using 1620 for a few months now....Radio Republica, an anti-Castro clandestine operation, in addition to using shortwave, I believe bought time on WDHP in the Virgin Islands, and likely Cuba is now using 1620 as well to jam.
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cd637299 said:
That 1620 in the VI is bizarre. East-West paths in the tropics on AM are notoriously poor... hearing Cuba in PR, for example, is not all that common... and using a 1 kw night signal to reach Cuba from so far away, even on almost shortwave 1620 is a really improbable choice.
DavidEduardo said:
Well, that explains the Spanish on 1620 that I have received from Chicago to San Jose, Costa Rica!! With that kind of juice coming from the island, I totally concur with Sr. Eduardo G. in that there's NO WAY that WDHP could make any inroads with Cuban listeners. For one thing, the Virgin Islands are a very long way from Cuba. Imagine trying to beam 1 kw from Detroit to Washington, DC and you have an idea of the distance - and that's from the USVI to the closest point on Cuba. Most of the population of Cuba lives farther away than that. And David's comment about East-West paths in the tropics is generally accurate - though not a hard and fast rule. For example, some nights (when dxing from Costa Rica) the dial would be filled with Venezuelan super-powered AMs (located about 500 mi east of my QTH) while other nights they were hard to pull in. I notice that, from night to night, propagation seems to vary a lot more in the tropics than it does here. Still, that's hardly a good environment in which to depend on the skywave of a 1 kw peashooter to serve a distant audience.
In fact, it's an impressive example of what lengths the Castro boys will go to in order to keep out external points of view. Because, even with their 1620 off the air, it's unlikely that WDHP would have much of a signal anywhere in Cuba. In fact, it would probably only be faintly receivable in the coastal areas east of Guantanamo Bay. Very, very strange indeed.
"Definitely s'posed to be 710 to counter WAQI Radio Mambi. If you caught WAQI, you must be in FL, because it ain't easy anywhere else."
Definitely heard the WAQI calls from Miami at the top of the hour in Central Mississippi. I've never picked up anything I could Identify from Miami before in my area. Its getting hammered with whistle caused by the Cuban station off frequency at 706 Khz
Definitely heard the WAQI calls from Miami at the top of the hour in Central Mississippi. I've never picked up anything I could Identify from Miami before in my area. Its getting hammered with whistle caused by the Cuban station off frequency at 706 Khz
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@flytrap: Good work catching WAQI from MS! No easy trick, especially with 4 Cuban 710s swimming around it.
@BRNOut: Actually the first time I heard R Republica on 1620, I was in the Florida Keys DXing....not a bad signal, really. (This was apparently prior to Cuba catchin' on.)
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@BRNOut: Actually the first time I heard R Republica on 1620, I was in the Florida Keys DXing....not a bad signal, really. (This was apparently prior to Cuba catchin' on.)
cd
Re: Whats that on 705 KHZ - Radio Mambi 710 Miami heard in Northern IL!
Was tuning around this a.m. and on 710 noticed Spanish, so I'm thinking, hmm, Cuba... right at 3:00 a.m. I hear the ID, "Radio Aqi, WAQI Miami, Radio Mambi" Two male announcers, every couple of minutes they mention "Radio Mambi" during what sounds like a continuous news station. Had the signal until about 3:30 a.m.
cd637299 said:
Was tuning around this a.m. and on 710 noticed Spanish, so I'm thinking, hmm, Cuba... right at 3:00 a.m. I hear the ID, "Radio Aqi, WAQI Miami, Radio Mambi" Two male announcers, every couple of minutes they mention "Radio Mambi" during what sounds like a continuous news station. Had the signal until about 3:30 a.m.
Speaking of which....BRNout said:
Whatever happened to the noisemaker that the Cubans were running on 1550 a few years back for no readily apparent reason?
Also I'm back on the gulf in a little over two weeks. About 22 miles southwest of the Pensacola 1620 stick. It'll be interesting to hear what effect the Cubans are having on that! Our location is right on the beach, but the path from Pensacola is all land...sand with terrible ground conductivity.
And of course, I'll be interested to hear what's up with 705/710/whatever. The 710s are clearly audible daytime under semi-local WNTM (Mobile). Will there be a new whistle?
vibe said:
March is a little early, but Fall and Spring will bring conditions where shorter range stations are unlistenable while deep Carribean stations roll in.
The most extreme I witnessed was 1100 in Cleveland, about 25 miles from my location, almost unlistenable with a 10 kw station from the interior of Venezuela at what DXers call "armchair listening level."
Having WHAS or WSM or WSB totally wiped out was fairly common, too.
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