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Loggings => Shortwave Broadcast => Topic started by: shadypyro on November 09, 2024, 0522 UTC
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Due to the damage from Hurricane Rafael the antennas of RHC from what I read is unfortunately destroyed and RHC has left shortwave. A sad day for me as a long time listener for 8 years, least I still have the qsl cards and the Granma newspapers.
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and what of their employees............Pedro jury-rigging a 1957 NYC Checkered Cab to broadcast gloom and doom to the capitalistic pigs on fruited plain? The Numbers Lady with only a part time gig and no benefits reciting números over an intercom system in the bingo hall of St. Sister Mary Elephant in Cienfuegos? The inhumanity of it all...... ;)
Truth be told......They did have some fine music programs, decent English sports reports, and Arnie's DX program was entertaining
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And worth mentioning, all those marvelous Montecristo No. 2's wallowing in their watery graves. .. "Oh the horror... the horror....."
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Just read Radio Rebelde (5025 AM) is also OTA, my attempt to receive showed no transmission
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I don't see anything from RHC or other Cuban sites or social media to indicate that they don't intend to restore it. Whether they can, given that it's a waste of electricity (and barely intelligible half the time for technical reasons) even when operating, is another thing entirely.
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Is there a GoFundMe page yet? ;D ;D ;D ;D
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I believed this at first and read the more detailed article, but it seems this wasn’t true. It was off for a while but I’m listening to it right now on 6000 kHz with an S9 signal here and the typical nonexistent modulation.
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~S9+40 carrier with hum and garbled modulation at 0334z. 6000am is a waste of power and resources for an island with limited resources.
I would rather RHC on 6000am run even just 1-2KW with narrow audio than whatever has been happening for a long time now. I am talking like even an amateur radio driving an OM4001HF or similar amp feeding a half-wave dipole or quarter-wave vertical.
Radio Rebelde is on air at 0358z but at a fraction of its usual signal strength here. Just ~S9 instead of usually like S9+40 or more.