[IRCA] Help Needed, UnID on 1040-- Radio Mayabeque?

[dxerak@xxxxxxx]

I need some help with an unID heard last Sunday night on 1040 kHz. The station is in SS and I have never heard an SS station on 1040 before. If you are willing to help, I have an mp3 file that I can send you off-list. I would appreciate very much your reaction to what you hear on this file. Thank you very much in advance.
 
On Sunday night Barry McLarnon posted of hearing Radio Mayabeque Cuba on 1040 kHz, made possible  by some auroral enhancement and by the absence of WBZ IBOC.Since I too suffer from WBZ IBOC, his tip inspired me to also try 1040. As Barry wrote, "The WBZ IBOC outage may not last for much longer, so get 'em while you can...." And sure enough, two nights later he reported that WBZ IBOC was back. DX opportunity shut down for the unforeseeable future. So here I am with the Sunday unID.
 
One result of the lack of WBZ IBOC was to strengthen WHO's signal, but also present was a weak SS signal mostly below WHO. A breakthrough came at the start of the Fox newscast on WHO, at 0500 UTC (Monday). Tuning down WHO with the passband filter I got  a minute or so of relatively clear signal from the station, with WHO in and out. A man talked followed by a woman singing for about 20 seconds (an ID? a product jingle?) followed by the song "It Never Rains in Southern California"; then the signal went back below WHO. All of this is included on the mp3.
 
If this is Radio Mayabeque, I have very little evidence to confirm it. At one point I think I hear the words "la Revolucion" almost immediately followed by a clear "Mayabeque," Two problems, however, with "Mayabeque": it is not proceded by the word "Radio" and it is pronounced with a pause between the second and third syllables of this four-syllable word, i.e. Maya-beque. So it remains an unID at present.
 
Ideas? Any help on this one will be greatly appreciated! Thank you.
73     Bill Dvorak     Madison WI 
  











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