Re: [IRCA] Cuban call signs (was: AM BCB Loggings.............

["WD9INP/4" <WD9INP@xxxxxxx>]

The CIA knows, but how do we get that info out of them?

Is anyone here old enough to remember the Foreign Broadcast Information 
Service and its list, the one published by the Government Printing Office?


Charles A Taylor, WD4INP
   Greenville, North Carolina
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Russ Edmunds" <wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: [IRCA] Cuban call signs (was: AM BCB Loggings.............


>
>
> --- "W. Curt Deegan" <WWWR@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>
>> Since Cuban stations hop about on a whim, the only sure things are
>> the
>> frequency and network being carried, as are actually heard.
>
> *** And of course the network doesn't mean much when you have 3-4 on
> the same network on a frequency, when those change at whim, and when
> stations routinely relay other networks either overnight or otherwise.
>
>
>>
>> As an example, if someone reported hearing Radio Reloj on 950, I too
>> would
>> ask for more detail
>
> *** But from most of us, you wouldn't get it, because we couldn't
> provide it.
>
> I'm at the point now where I list the program heard, show it as CM??
> and Cuba and that's about it unless it's one which has been
> historically stable as to program, call or location or is somehow
> unique, or as happens once in a while, one actually ID's.
>
> The combination of the Cuban government's secrecy and paranoia makes it
> virtually impossible to maintain any meaningful information, whether
> you're WRTH or anyone else.
>
>
> Russ Edmunds
> Blue Bell, PA  ( 360' ASL )
> [15 mi NNW of Philadelphia]
> 40:08:45N; 75:16:04W, Grid FN20ID
> <wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>
> FM: Yamaha T-80 & Onkyo T-450RDS w/ APS9B @15'
> AM: Hammarlund HQ-150 & 4' FET air core loop
>
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