Re: [IRCA] All // everything, Cubans get the WORD

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

I thought it was all over by then: I was monitoring only SW, tune-in 6000 at
2146 UT hoping to hear the tail end of Mexican clandestine R. Insurgente --- I
have a hard time remembering to check it an hour earlier every Friday, and my
chances are dropping as every spring-approaching week goes by. But RHC was
already on, and I expect that if on, this week Insurgente was blown away by
Cuba, which previously had seemed to be avoiding a collision on 6000, in a rare
sign of mutual respect, inspired no doubt by political sympathies.

I then found RHC all over the place in // with a speech which I first thought
was Fidel, but not so hoarse as he has been lately, and later identified as
Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada. Occasion was the 111th anniversary of the ``inicio
de la guerra necesaria en la isla``, which would be 1895, the beginning of José
Martí`s revolt against Spain, I guess. It was taking place at the Tribuna
Anti-Imperialista José Martí frente a la Sección de Intereses de EE. UU. This
is the rapidly-constructed mass of flagpoles across from the US Interests
Section in Habana, trying to block from view of the impressionable Cuban
masses, the uncensored messages of the US Government on a big streaming
electronic sign, which so incensed Fidel. It was also the 30th anniversary of
the Socialist Constitution.

In the next quarter hour I tried to study which frequencies were synchronized
with each other and which were slightly delayed, indicating a different feed
path, whatever that may mean:

15230 11875 and 6000 were slightly delayed;
5965 6060 9505 9550 9600 11760 11800 seemed to be in synch, tho I didn`t get to
some of them until ``Viva la Revolución`` music was playing after 2152 and it
was harder to tell.

At 2158 there were campanas (chimes, bells), music and more of them at 2200.
This was the Cadena Nacional de Radio, which announced regular programming was
resuming at 2202. I then found RHC programming continuing only on 9550 and
11800 in Spanish. Running open carrier at least briefly thereafter were 6000,
6060, and I heard 11760 turning it off. 11875 was already off, had been under
WYFR. 5965 went to French. 17705 was in Portuguese as scheduled.

R. Martí and R. República were on as usual, oblivious of all this, along with
the usual dentrocuban jamming. 73, Glenn Hauser, Enid OK 


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