Re: [IRCA] 590 Test

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

Gil,

My info comes mostly from other FL DXers and what I can hear myself.

About the only thing less accurate regarding Cuban AM's than their 
own web sites, would be the FCC listing of Cubans.

For some reason the URL you mention doesn't work for me, but I found 
what it referred to by going through the base address.  What can I 
say, like web sites everywhere it seems to be wrong.  There may be 
reasons 590 is excluded, with Cuba there is no way to tell.

As I understand it, the FCC database is derived from what has been 
officially registered by Cuba with international agencies.  No one 
questions the lack of that cooperation.  The least useful info 
resource on Cuban AMs is likely the FCC database.

WRTH does about as well as could be expected, given the lack of 
information flowing out of the country.  It is always a good starting 
place for frequencies and likely locations.  DFing efforts have 
confirmed some frequencies and locations, not others.  Call signs 
mean little in Cuba now, so those are rather irrelevant as listed in 
WRTH.  The transmitter power numbers, again, are as good as could be 
expected, but moving transmitters around on frequencies to counter 
perceived foreign intervention in internal affairs is a common 
practice of the communist regime there.  Similarly network 
affiliations are transient in nature, changing without any notice, 
just as everything else does in the country.  Many stations do keep 
pretty much to the same network, though.

For now 590 has Radio Musical, at least most of the time.

Just my opinions, hope it helps a little.

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


At 07:27 PM 12/5/2006, you wrote:
>Curt,
>I've heard Radio Musical programming on 590 this fall.  According to WRTH,
>RM is at 590.  However, the official website for RM,
>http://www.cmbfjazz.cu/cmbf/pro_trans_hist_cmbf/transmision.htm
>hasn't listed 590 in a couple of years.  (The last time I was able to open
>the site in November.) The only MW station is listed at 1040, Santa Clara.
>The FCC AM no longer lists a 590 at Santa Clara.  Do you have any insights
>on what's going on?
>73, Gil NN4CW
>Drake R8B
>160' longwire, 135' doublet,
>18x40x18 Ewe-110 degrees
>20x50x20 Ewe-35 degrees.
>Quantum phaser


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