Word from a RF consultant about Radio Marti. Cuba is about all you'll hear on 1180 anywhere in the U.S. unless you're real close to the Marathon transmitter site night or day. The Marti signal is highly directional. Cuba has multiple station on 1180 blocking R. Marti.
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At one time, going with the Soviet system of "one big factory," Radio Rebelde in Havana operated with what Cuba advertised as 300 kW. However, the station was estimated at never being able to make more than about 80 kW. This pretty well jammed Radio Marti in Havana. In other areas of Cuba Marti came in well. After China reworked the networks, multiple 1 kW amd 5 kW stations operating on 1180 kHz throughout the island was able to block Marti reasonably well and at a much lower cost.
Another example on how inefficient a communist regimen is...
But that was just to "protect" La Habana and nearby areas. There were many other transmitters interfering with the perceived threats on 1140, 1160, and later, 1180 as well as with the US 1-A clear channel stations the US government rented in overnight hours to broadcast into Cuba.
The 300 kw transmitter was a combined pair of Czecch 140 kw transmitters, and due to power shortages, it apparently ran at 120 kw most of the time using just one of the pair of rigs.
It could and did make 240 to 280 kw, but they decided against doing that normally. By the time Radio Martí went on the air, the old Czech rigs were having issues due to poor maintenance so they ran lower power.
There were multiple 1180 transmitters all over Cuba going back to the year Martí began. I did the annual review of Martí twice, and had access to a lot of documentation as well as field strength readings. What is often ignored is that Cuba is 800 miles wide, and no single transmitter of any power can cover the whole island.
And the Martí directional system sends the equivalent of 400 kw towards Cuba and does get listening in many areas.
There are 40 Radio Rebelde retransmitters on 1180 from 1 kw to one 200 kw unit and 4 50 kw stations.
Neither... Whatever you call it, it is certainly a dictatorial regime... I lived there for 30 years so I know well.
Cuba has all the characteristics of a socialist system as defined in Das Capital and later core writings of the late 19th Century. What Marx and Engels never anticipated was that the leaders of a socialist system would become oligarchs with a government system of a new royalty. But for the rest of society, the principals of government ownership of everything were rigidly in place.
I am probably wrong but, I thought communism was state (or communal) ownership of all property while socialism was governement providing services that are or could be provided through private ownership. As I understand it, in Cuba the state owns just about everything where as in Sweden there is private ownship but the state provides cradle to grave care. The biggest problem - in my estimation - with Cuba is the totalitarian governement with no oportunity to change it if the people are unhappy.
Some socialism is good - think public health care, social security, etc. - Communism is inefficient and bad but the totalitarianism that goes along with it is awful.
Some socialism is good - think public health care, social security, etc. - Communism is inefficient and bad but the totalitarianism that goes along with it is awful.
Simplest definition:
Communism: from each according to their ability, to each according to their need.
Socialism: from each according to their ability, to each according to their value to society.
In both, all parts of the economy are owned and controlled by the government.
The first step in Cuba was to nationalize everything. Even the neighbor who wanted to sell the extra eggs the hen laid had to do that through the government authority.
Of course, there are countless abuses, the peddling of favors and bribes.
Sweden is a hybrid, but is not true socialism. In true socialist nations, even what you will study in school is determined for you, based on what the economy and nation require.
You are confusing social responsibility of the nation, its government and its citizens. For example, Social Security is a way of trying to get everyone to plan for their future and it includes benefits for those who can't pay into the system due to disabilities. Similarly, Medicare does the same but in conjunction with the private health care sector.
I keep being told that anyone who opposed Trump or the far right wing is a socialist
And not everyone called a "bastard" is illegitimate. The term is over-used and ill-defined, going back to the beginning of the Cold War and even the Roosevelt Presidencies.
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