[IRCA] Radio/TV Marti

[AM-DXer@xxxxxxxxx (Patrick Griffith, N0NNK / WPE9HVW)]

I just saw an AP story by Laura Wides-Munoz that ran in the Chicago
Tribune on August 22. It says that Radio/TV Marti was dissatisfied with
the fact that the PA National Guard Commando Solo EC-130 aircraft were
only able to provide them with 4 hours a week of broadcasts on Saturday
evenings. So Marti appropriated $10 million in funding for its own
broadcast aircraft, a Lockheed Martin G-1. The article says that
broadcasts from the new aircraft began on August 19th and has allowed
them to expand their 4 hour a night broadcasts to 6 days a week. It also
mentions that this allowed them to improve the FM broadcasts into Cuba.
The article makes no mention of the AM broadcasts. The article implies
that the EC-130 broadcasts also continue one night a week.

Another article that I just read says that the TV Marti aerostat
broadcast balloon in the FL Keys was knocked out in the 2005 hurricanes
and has not yet been replaced. However it says that $1.7 million has
been appropriated to repair or replace it as well.

There was also mention that the TV and FM jamming in Cuba originates
from 4 transmitters located on the tallest buildings in Havana.

Patrick Griffith, Westminster CO
http://community.webtv.net/N0NNK/
http://community.webtv.net/AM-DXer/

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