Radio Enciclopedia with Radio Rebelde 530 khz AM 5:10 utc Nov 21 '13

[Rockpicker]

I've been receiving two decent signals on 530 khz AM the past week.

As per Chanter's suggestions last May 8th I have been able to ID Radio Rebelde by checking their broadcast on 5025 khz.

Radio Rebelde is usually the weaker signal at my QTH but some nights they trade places with each other.

I've  learned that what I used to think was CIAO is instead a UNID (for me) Cuban station.

I'm listening tonight and it is the same female announcer with the wonderful voice playing laid back (elevator) instrumental music.
Both station are audible tonight but the unid is as usual dominant. Unfortunately I do not speak Spanish.
I did pick out a few words of an station ID on a recording I have from the 19th. " Transmitting ? ? ? Radio Music ? ? Havana Cuba"

Here is a DDC waterfall capture from the 19th when the UNID was very strong and the only station I could hear on 530.

[atrainradio]

530 has many part 15 stations on it, and also some pirates. I'm not saying that that is what you caught, but could help you out sinc eits hard to ID 15's and pirates. I've caught 2 pirates on 530 before ( voice of elmer (a town south of me by 30 miles) and somebody re-transmitting the local noaa weather radio).

[Kilokat7]

I've  learned that what I used to think was CIAO is instead a UNID (for me) Cuban station.

The elevator music, this would be Radio Enciclopedia, also from Cuba.

530 has many part 15 stations on it, and also some pirates. I'm not saying that that is what you caught, but could help you out sinc eits hard to ID 15's and pirates. I've caught 2 pirates on 530 before ( voice of elmer (a town south of me by 30 miles) and somebody re-transmitting the local noaa weather radio).

As for the NOAA relay, it's not unusual for licensed TIS/HAR stations to rebroadcast NOAA weather radio, so I'm guessing that wasn't a pirate that you heard.  On the other hand, I'd like to learn more about this "Voice of Elmer"!  I have yet to catch anything unusual on 530 myself, but then again I haven't paid much attention to the frequency since it's usually dominated here by CIAO.

[Rockpicker]

Thanks a bunch Kilokat,

I looked up Radio Enciclopedia online and found their audio feed.
The signal on 530 is weak tonight but the music playing did match what was on the internet feed.
Out of sync but a definite match! I'm also hearing bits of Rebelde pop up tonight as well.

http://www.radioenciclopedia.cu/audio-real/

[atrainradio]

Voice of Elmer hasn't appeared in 8 months (according to my radio log-book). I'd love to let you know when they're on again- but I suspect its very low poweed because the signal was only an S4 and elmer, New Jersey is just about 30 miles south of me. That's gonna be a HUGE challenge for you, but I'm sure your all but willing to accept it!!

[redhat]

FWIW, when traveling along the gulf states, Radio Encyclopedia can be heard pretty much every night on a car radio.  I still check it out when traveling around.

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