[Swprograms] Radio Habana Cuba Developments

["Sergei S." <radonezh@xxxxxxxxx>]

TO SEE AND HEAR BETTER

BY LILLIAM RIERA ?Granma International staff writer?

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NEW TRANSMITTERS WILL ALLOW RADIO HABANA CUBA TO
RECOUP AUDIENCE

With respect to short wave (a basically international
radio service), Justo Moreno García, technical
director of RADIOCUBA, announced that this year, six
transmitters located in international transmission
center No. 1 in Bauta ? west of the capital ? are
being automated. This will allow Radio Habana Cuba
(RHC) to recover the spaces that this station had lost
in diverse regions of the Americas where its signal
used to reach.

In this same center, a seventh transmitter is being
installed for Radio Rebelde, and an antenna system is
being assembled. 

Moreno said that credits granted to Cuba by China for
telecommunications that allowed work on the
installation in Bauta to begin in 2003.

The credit for $200 million was granted to the Cuban
Electronics group by China?s Import and Export Bank
(EXIMBAK) via an agreement signed during President
Jiang Zemin?s visit to Cuba. It has mainly been used
to improve short and medium wave radio services. 

On a tour of the Bauta installation with Juan Carlos
Pérez Pérez, its director, Granma International was
able to corroborate the total change in technology in
situ. 

Pérez especially emphasized that ?of the 45 days
anticipated, we were able to reduce service problems
to two or three.? 

As an interesting fact, Pérez commented that it was
precisely from there, and on RHC waves, that the
program Aló Presidente, produced in Venezuela, is
transmitted throughout Venezuela, live and direct via
the national television channel.

Moreno informed that work is also underway in
international transmission centers No. 2 in Bejucal
and No. 3 Titán in Quivicán. The situation in those
centers and the one in Bauta had been critical, he
admitted: the equipment was ?very old and
inefficient,? and the antenna systems and buildings
were ?very deteriorated.?

During the second semester of 2004, 20 new medium wave
transmitters with digital technology will be
installed, substituting the old and inefficient Czech
TESLA equipment, Moreno reported. Those will add to
the 17 that have already been installed, which provide
services in 12 totally remodeled centers. 

Likewise, he added, 10 installations will be restored,
the majority of them in the eastern provinces of
Holguín, Granma and Guantánamo.  

These transformations will facilitate ?a better
quality signal, greater stability in services,
improvement in the coverage areas of these centers and
an increased level of energy efficiency,? he affirmed.

Work was needed to reverse the accumulated ?profound
deterioration? in the transmission networks of
television and short and medium wave and FM radio,
further affected by the disappearance of socialism in
the Eastern European bloc. Added to that was the
collapse of 14 radio towers and 4 TV towers in the
wake of Hurricane Mitchell; RADIOCUBA was one of the
enterprises in the country most affected by that
hurricane.

Full article at:
http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2004/abril/lun26/17transmi-i.html



	
		
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