Re: [IRCA] [mwc] 1181 still going

["Les Rayburn" <les@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Glen,

With little or no evidence to back up this working theory, I'll share what 
I've got.

Various news reports in the Miami area over the past couple of weeks have 
indicated members of the Cuban exile community are receiving unconfirmed 
reports that Castro has in fact passed away. These rumors have been fueled 
by Castro's failure to appear in public for his 81st birthday.

If the US Government has knowledge of his death, or even strongly suspects 
it, they may be preparing a lot of contingency plans of their own, including 
jamming, and propaganda broadcasts into Cuba. Many Cubans still rely on AM 
radio for their daily news and entertainment, so it would make sense for 
that medium to get a lot of use.

I suspect that the 1181 transmitter, and the earlier tests this year on 
other MW frequencies are all connected to that effort. The ability to be 
frequency agile will be important to thwart efforts of the Cuban government 
to jam such broadcasts. And other types of testing including propagation 
studies, etc. would need to be conducted in advance. They may even be 
"burning in" the transmitter and antenna system at full power to insure that 
it will be ready for action once broadcasts begin.

Can't prove a word of it, of course, but I suspect it will prove to be on 
the right track.



Les Rayburn, director
High Noon Film
100 Centerview Drive Suite 111
Birmingham, AL 35216
205.824.8930
205.824.8960 fax
205.253.4867 cell

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Glenn Hauser" <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <abdx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <am@xxxxxxxxxxx>; 
<dxld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <mwc@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 8:04 PM
Subject: [mwc] 1181 still going


> The mystery 1181.0 carrier is now into its fourth week. Perhaps everything
> about it that can be said has been said, except that I for one am still 
> hearing
> it on almost nightly quick chex, such as 0052 UT Sept 8, and it is still
> looping about 125/(305) degrees from here. Can anyone come up with some 
> new
> ideas about what or who may be behind it? Still a good idea to keep 
> checking it
> regularly, in case some different bearing show up or something else happen 
> to
> it, or for that matter, it just disappear. Subjunctively 73, Glenn Hauser, 
> Enid
>
>
>
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