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Heads Up: 50kW WOR at 710 kHz in NYC is scheduled to go dark for a tower/transmitter maintenance event late Wednesday evening / Thursday early morning. 73! Good luck and good DX!
Thanks for letting me know about this event.Heads Up: 50kW WOR at 710 kHz in NYC is scheduled to go dark for a tower/transmitter maintenance event late Wednesday evening / Thursday early morning. 73! Good luck and good DX!
It sounds like Radio Rebelde is jamming the signal of WAQI Miami, aka Radio Mambi.
David this kind of stuff always intrigues me. Growing up in central NJ I DXd quite a bit ... I remember in the 60s a strong Cuban station would always be heard on 640. WAQI has 6 towers employed at night to aim that signal. My question is if Cuba, as always, has stations all over the island to block the US signals, why bother? Who is going to be able to hear WAQI? Is there any evidence of how the signal is received competing with other Cubans on 710?
Those 710s were set up about a quarter century or so ago expressly to block Mambi due to its virulent anti-Castro stance.
WAQI had the equivalent of about a 300 kw lobe over central Cuba.
David this kind of stuff always intrigues me. Growing up in central NJ I DXd quite a bit ... I remember in the 60s a strong Cuban station would always be heard on 640. WAQI has 6 towers employed at night to aim that signal. My question is if Cuba, as always, has stations all over the island to block the US signals, why bother? Who is going to be able to hear WAQI? Is there any evidence of how the signal is received competing with other Cubans on 710?
It sounds like Radio Rebelde is jamming the signal of WAQI Miami, aka Radio Mambi.
The FCC application for WAQI's construction permit to move their transmitter site (diplexing with WQBA) and reduce their nighttime power to 6.3 kHz shows seven co-channel and adjacent-channel Cuban stations they're up against, including call signs and pattern maps: CMDC, CMEC, CMGC, CMJC, CMLC, CMMC, and CMOC.
https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/app_list.pl?Arn=20140627ABA
In other words, aren't these 'foreign' folks disposed now to more modern devices for entertainment and diversion -- especially the younger ones -- than that offered to folks by anything on the AM dial?
So what's stopping Uncle Sam from placing a new, more modern, one-tower 100,000 south- directional FM station near ..... oh, let's say ..... Marathon Florida, and ditching that huge and ineffective 710 signal and all those extra towers?
David this kind of stuff always intrigues me. Growing up in central NJ I DXd quite a bit ... I remember in the 60s a strong Cuban station would always be heard on 640. WAQI has 6 towers employed at night to aim that signal. My question is if Cuba, as always, has stations all over the island to block the US signals, why bother? Who is going to be able to hear WAQI? Is there any evidence of how the signal is received competing with other Cubans on 710?
Looking at the geography of Cuba, it is easy to see how they get away with these blaster signals. A type of a loophole since, if they wanted to cover the entire island with minimal interference from the anti-Castro US and other island signals, cry power increase and they got it.