Re: [IRCA] Wobbler

["W. Curt Deegan" <WWWR@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gil,

I don't know from personal experience that other networks carry Radio 
Reloj at night -- maybe others who've been DXing longer can comment 
-- but there have been instances of RR showing up on specific 
stations from time to time.  The problem with RR is that it is 
everywhere and its distinctive TOM beep and Morse ID make even the 
weakest station pop to the top.  A usual station may fade out and a 
low power RR suddenly seem to fill its place.  Hard to sort out which 
is the original and which the Memorex.

A year later I am still trying to again hear an RR I heard on 
1610.  I was surprised and didn't believe my ears, but when I fired 
up Spectran, sure enough, there it was.  It was once, for an hour or 
so and nothing since then.  That could have been an instance of an 
otherwise unhearable station that briefly carried RR and those tones 
came through.

Fortunately, many of those Cubans listed in WRTH no longer exist or 
operate on low power on the other side of the island and produce 
nothing more than the ever growing background noise.  It is the 
powerful, even multiple ones plopped down intentionally atop Florida 
and other US stations as a form of jamming, that are the worst nuisance.

Unlike you, I have neither first nor second, that's why I listen to Wobblers.

Curt
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W. Curt Deegan
Boca Raton, (southeast) Florida


At 04:24 PM 12/18/2006, you wrote:
>Curt,
>
>"CMHW could be 840, 1290, or 1310, as listed in the WRTH, which is why
>I usually go by frequency, network, and location.  Call letters are
>really no longer used by any but a handful of Cuban stations and are
>not maintained by that government."
>
>I read a few years ago that some of the  other Cuban networks relay Radio
>Reloj after 600 Z.  Is this still the case?
>
>In looking at the 2007 WRTH, Cuban stations occupy every a.m. frequency,
>often in multiples,  from 530 kHz through 1590 kHz, every 10 kHz.  A few
>oddballs are listed slightly off freq.  Fortunately for those who don't have
>Spanish as a first or second language, according to the WRTH, the Cubans
>don't broadcast at 970, 1420, 1480, 1530 or 1550 so we can (hopefully) rule
>out Cuba on those freqs.  (I am fortunate to have English as my second
>language.  Unfortunately, I don't have a first.)
>
>73, Gil NN4CW
>
>Savannah, GA


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