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- Subject: Anybody want to go to Cuba?
- From: Mark Connelly <markwa1ion@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2016 12:46:10 -0400
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If nothing else, seeing the circuit boards they use to make a transmitter "wobble" would be educational. Not to mention figuring out what the thinking behind this highly unusual mode actually is.
DXpedition from eastern end of Cuba would also be interesting, i.e. what US/Canada stations, Caribbeans, South / Central Americans, and TA's would you typically hear? Would they even let a potential "spy" radio like a Perseus, Excalibur, or Elad into the country (not to mention the PC to run it)? Ultralight with FSL might also get dirty looks.
Downtime could entail making a photo gallery of the world's biggest living museum of classic cars.
Mark Connelly, WA1ION
South Yarmouth, MA
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From: Bob <superpro600@xxxxxxxxx>
To: am <am@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sat, Apr 9, 2016 12:28 am
Subject: Re: [NRC-AM] Anybody want to go to Cuba?
Maybe you could get hold of Arnie Coro CO2KK of DXers Unlimited on Radio Havana? I've been wanting to go for a while, my wife is from Peru and I could have flown there at anytime (I think) from Peru but never did. She's been there several times.
Bob Young
Millbury, Ma
On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 12:07 AM, Scott Fybush <scott@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yes, this is DX related - let me explain!
I had lunch today with Rick Lucas, who's just back from a two-week tour of Cuba. At least for now, US regulations require that US citizens visiting Cuba have an educational purpose for their trip, which typically means a lot of "person-to-person" activities like meeting farmers and watching dance troupes and such. (Canadians and others can go to Cuban resorts and lounge on the beach if they so desire...)
But it occurred to us that if we could get enough DXers and other radio folk together, it might be possible to organize a trip that would focus on Cuban radio - visiting studios and transmitter sites, interacting with Cuban radio people and DXers, meeting with Arnie Coro, and so on.
I'm not going quite so far (yet!) as to bid for a Havana convention in 2017 or 2018...but I'm curious to find out whether anyone else would be interested in a hypothetical week-long trip next winter. If there's interest, I'd be willing to reach out to the tour companies that have licenses to organize Cuba trips to see what the next steps might be.
So...any interest?
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