Re: [IRCA] IBB Delano and Greenville

["Joe Miller, AB8YP" <ab8yp@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you for taking the lead on this Dan. You are
absolutely correcto-mundo about the HF skip zones. Add
to that the ability of major shortwave broadcasters to
beam their transmissions in a fairly narrow pattern,
and voila, VOA Delano should be heard very well in
Cuba.

Lest we not forget that many VOA/RM broadcasts are
jammed, as well as propagation conditions changing
daily, it is important to transmit from different
locations, at different frequencies, and at different
times in order to get through.

I for one applaud the work that both you and Charles
Taylor have done for our country.

VY73 de Joe Miller, AB8YP, Troy, MI



--- Dan Ferguson <shortwave@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Thank you.  The last sentence happens to be correct.
> 
> As the guy who used to schedule all Radio Marti
> shortwave transmissions, 
> before I decided I needed to spend more time on the
> beach and in the shag 
> joints of North Myrtle, maybe I can 'splain
> sumpin...  HF ground wave 
> doesn't go very far, and skywave has a skip zone. 
> Thus Greenville and 
> Delano (and formerly Bethany - sigh!  that was a
> good site for Cuba!!) are 
> used for HF to Cuba.  That's why you won't see Marti
> leasing HF out of 
> Florida, or even Goose Creek, SC. Too close!  I
> stand by my "Fedral 
> Thinking".  Some of us who worked for the Feds gave
> a %^$%^$^%$!  Many still 
> do!
> 
> df
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mike McKenna" <way2twohot@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Mailing list for the International Radio Club
> of America" 
> <irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 1:54 PM
> Subject: Re: [IRCA] IBB Delano and Greenville
> 
> 
> > Thanks.  Now that I put my Fedral Government Cap
> on --- I see the logic. 
> > To hit Cuba by radio -- you use a transmitter site
> 2,000 miles away -- and 
> > not the site less than 200 miles away.   I just
> forgot that Radio Marti --  
> > is run by no smarty.  -------   And the distance
> is so far apart -- that 
> > there is room to put another 50 KW AM station "on
> the air"  just a few 
> > miles away from the Delano site on 1180.   Just
> plain Federal Thinking --  
> > at it's best.
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