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Re: [HCDX] A reply to the incorrect and insulting comments against my country, CUBA, by Senor Henry Klemetz
Arnie gets provoked to over-react. Politix quite aside, all we want is a
complete and accurate listing of Cuban MW stations, at least, including
frequency, callsign, power, location, name of station or network. Is this too
much to ask? Of course a long list of frequencies would not be suitable for a
show like Arnie`s. However, an occasional feature highlighting one of Cuba`s
many provincial networks or municipal stations, for example, would be of great
interest, and that could include a short list of frequencies and locations.
The site he cites, http://www.radiocubana.cu looks promising, until you try to
find some frequency information there. Incredibly, the link near the top
labeled ``Vea también sus frecuencias de transmisión y otros datos de interés
en nuestro Directorio``, leads to a list by province showing the NUMBER of
frequencies on AM & FM each station has but NOT the actual frequencies! Yes,
there are links to the individual websites of each station (with a few
exceptions), but just try to find a frequency list there, e.g. Radio Reloj,
where there have been some new ones popping up, no one knows where for sure.
No doubt the WRTH has been trying for 50 years to get accurate frequency lists,
with all the common technical details, just like the info published for every
other country, out of the Cuban government, with little or no success. So
Arnie, if that info is so accessible, just forward it to WRTH and we can really
look forward to the 2008 edition, and prove your critix wrong. Why wait? Post
it on this list. Otherwise we will be forced to conclude that such info is
really considered a sensitive state secret, and you will weasel your way out of
making it known to the world. I can`t wait for you to call me ``ultra
right-wing``.
BTW, all info provided to the ITU is by definition ``official`` and may not
mesh 100% with reality, especially in a radio-war situation, so observations by
DXers will continue to be valuable. 73, Glenn Hauser
--- "Prof.Arnaldo Coro Antich" <coro@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> From Arnie Coro
>
> To all HCDX list recipients , a message from Arnie Coro, the host of
> Dxers Unlimited Radio Hobby program of Radio Havana Cuba.
>
> Once again Mr. Henrik Klemetz attacks Cuba using this list as he has
> done in the past whenever he has wished to do so...not only here but
> also using other short wave hobby publications too.
>
> I won't reply to his message, which is simply reproduced here once again
> in case you had hit the delete key when reading the first sentence of
> its content, that had nothing to do with the radio hobby and a lot to
> do with Mr. Klemetz ultra-right wing political attitude.
>
> He did asked me to provide a list of frequency of the AM ( didn't
> mention I think the FM or TV stations ) of my country : CUBA.
>
> I told him that my radio hobby show was not designed to provide lists of
> operating frequencies of stations, because my audience is not interested
> in this information that takes a lot of on the air time and can be found
> on the http://www.radiocubana.cu website, ran by one of my graduate
> students, and I may add, very well kept up to date by her.
>
> Also, for your knowledge, and Mr. Klemetz too... ALL Cuban broadcast
> stations, AM, FM and TV are registered in full details with the
> International Telecommunications Union in Geneva, providing to the ITU
> all the operating parameters .
>
> Recently the WRTH publisher contacted me requesting my cooperation to
> assist him in fixing up the many mistakes and errors related to Cuba
> that his publication's 2006 and 2007 editions had printed, something
> that came out after I sent WRTH a message calling the attention to
> the fact that the data they were publishing was misleading to the
> readers of the World Radio and TV Handbook, whoever had provided
> them with that data.
>
> For the anti-Cuban right wingers, the continuos bashing against Cuba is
> a matter of keeping up a campaign that has closely paralleled the now
> almost 50 years old economic, trade and financial blockade against Cuba
> that the succesive US administrations, from the days of Dwight D.
> Eisenhower have kept up to this very moment...
>
> And Mr. Klemetz who proclaims to be a very knowleadgeable person related
> to radio broadcasting seems to forget also that since 1960, on an every
> day basis my country , CUBA , has been subjected to the most intense
> radio war ever done in the history of broadcasting, in which the
> US government has spent more than 750 million dollars of the
> taxpayers money, and violated a great number of international treaties,
> agreements as well as ITU rules and regulations, including the use
> of TV and AM broadcast from high flying aircraft for the broadcasting
> of anti-Cuban propaganda that has even included instructions on how
> to sabotage transportation means and appeals to the assassination of our
> political leaders.
>
> Please read between lines the text sent to the list by Mr Klemetz, and
> you will be able to pick up the poison that transpires from each
> sentence.... The full text is contained between the " " quotation marks...
>
>
> "As happens with history books written by the victors, some features are
> magnifed and others neglected. In this online survey, 37 years of Cuban
> radio is summed up in two or three sentences. Also, as everyone can
> see, the local Cuban AM stations are listed without mention of frequency.
> I recently asked Arnie Coro of Radio Habana Cuba to supply some
> frequency info for domestic Cubans on AM on his show. The answer was
> negative. Such info would not be of interest to his audience, he said.
> He referred me to the list which appears on this site. It had been
> produced by one of his students, he added.
> Should I be surprised? I guess not. For almost 50 years, the only
> frequency info readily offered by the Cubans to the World Radio TV
> Handbook has been that of Radio Habana Cuba. For AM /medium wave/
> frequency listings the WRTH has had to rely on DXers.
> Anyone believe the upcoming 2008 edition will be an exception?
>
> Henrik Klemetz "
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