New 100 kW mediumwave transmitter planned for Marathon, Florida
January 18th, 2008 - 16:32 UTC by Andy

The Broadcasting Board of Governors - Office of Cuba Broadcasting
(OCB) has issued a tender for the supply of turnkey services to
upgrade the power distribution system at its Marathon Transmitter
Station in the Florida Keys. Work involves upgrading one of two
existing electrical power services provided by the public utility
service to better accommodate the planned installation of a new 100kW
mediumwave transmitter system.

(Source: FedBizOpps)

australia.radio.broadcast.moderated
http://groups.google.com/group/ausyt...stingmoderated
http://groups.google.com/group/ausyt...stingmoderated wrote:
New 100 kW mediumwave transmitter planned for Marathon, Florida
January 18th, 2008 - 16:32 UTC by Andy

The Broadcasting Board of Governors - Office of Cuba Broadcasting
(OCB) has issued a tender for the supply of turnkey services to
upgrade the power distribution system at its Marathon Transmitter
Station in the Florida Keys. Work involves upgrading one of two
existing electrical power services provided by the public utility
service to better accommodate the planned installation of a new 100kW
mediumwave transmitter system.

(Source: FedBizOpps)

Nobody listens to AM radio anymore. What a waste of money. Does this
mean KFI can go to 100 kW?

"David" wrote in message
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Nobody listens to AM radio anymore. What a waste of money. Does this
mean KFI can go to 100 kW?

This station is a special situation. It's most likely beamed toward Cuba,
and meant only for their listening. You can bet a LOT of folks in Cuba still
listen to AM radio, since it's reasonably easy to get Florida stations (when
the jammers aren't going... that is.. ergo the need to have a 100KW signal).

"Brenda Ann" wrote in message
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"David" wrote in message
...
Nobody listens to AM radio anymore. What a waste of money. Does this
mean KFI can go to 100 kW?

This station is a special situation. It's most likely beamed toward Cuba,
and meant only for their listening. You can bet a LOT of folks in Cuba
still listen to AM radio, since it's reasonably easy to get Florida
stations (when the jammers aren't going... that is.. ergo the need to have
a 100KW signal).

Also, Cuba has a really handy thing on medium wave AM radio -- Radio Reloj
(Clock Radio), with time signals every second and the time announced every
minute. (And newscasts which you can ignore, underneath the time ticks.)

One of the odder items in my QSL album is a Radio Reloj bumper sticker.
Yes, Cuba has bumper stickers, or did in the late 1980s when I was
collecting QSLs actively.

Brenda Ann wrote:
"David" wrote in message
...
Nobody listens to AM radio anymore. What a waste of money. Does this
mean KFI can go to 100 kW?

This station is a special situation. It's most likely beamed toward Cuba,
and meant only for their listening. You can bet a LOT of folks in Cuba still
listen to AM radio, since it's reasonably easy to get Florida stations (when
the jammers aren't going... that is.. ergo the need to have a 100KW signal).




You can get FL FM in Cuba, can't you? I suspect the Cubanos listen to
pop twaddle as much as anyone else and have little use for muddy old AM.

Jammers aren't necessary. Just make sure they get lots of cheap
dimmers. That's an AM radio killer.

"David" wrote in message
...

Nobody listens to AM radio anymore. What a waste of money. Does this
mean KFI can go to 100 kW?

VOA / Martí Marathon has been running 100 kw for many, many years. It is the
only 100 kw MW station in the US.

In Cuba, the majority of listening is to AM. While FM exists, it is not
universally available across the country and most of the government
programming budget is spent on AM networks, not FM. They don't have HDTV,
either.

"Brenda Ann" wrote in message
...

"David" wrote in message
...
Nobody listens to AM radio anymore. What a waste of money. Does this
mean KFI can go to 100 kW?

This station is a special situation. It's most likely beamed toward Cuba,
and meant only for their listening.

Yep. There is a 3 tower in-line directional system, and it is aimed at Cuba.
There is a sw parallel out of Greenville, and there has even been recent use
of an airborne MW transmitter once a week on 530 AM... a search of Glen
Hauser's bulletins will find details on this bizarre use of taxpayer money.

You can bet a LOT of folks in Cuba still listen to AM radio,

They do. Almost all the state budget for radio is spent on AM. FM
broadcasting exists, but not in the scale found elsewhere in Latin America.

since it's reasonably easy to get Florida stations (when the jammers
aren't going... that is..

Actually, it is not easy to get FL AMs, since Cuba has stations on all but a
couple of AM frequencies, and multiple stations on the channels where there
are Miami Spanish stations, like 710, 670, 1140, etc. Martí is blocked on
1180 by some of the biggest transmitters still running in Cuba. There are no
jammers in the conventional sense (either the ones that produced hets, or
noisemakers) any more.

ergo the need to have a 100KW signal).

Interviews with emigrants from Cuba show that Martí gets considerable
listening despite the locals on 1180.

"David" wrote in message
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You can get FL FM in Cuba, can't you? I suspect the Cubanos listen to pop
twaddle as much as anyone else and have little use for muddy old AM.

Cuba has FM... all stations are run by the goverment, and FM is not a budget
priority. Most resorces go to AM programming.

Many parts of Cuba can not get FM at all due to terrain, and the limited
power and number of domestic FMs.

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David wrote:

australia.radio.broadcast.moderated
http://groups.google.com/group/ausyt...stingmoderated
http://groups.google.com/group/ausyt...stingmoderated wrote:
New 100 kW mediumwave transmitter planned for Marathon, Florida
January 18th, 2008 - 16:32 UTC by Andy

The Broadcasting Board of Governors - Office of Cuba Broadcasting
(OCB) has issued a tender for the supply of turnkey services to
upgrade the power distribution system at its Marathon Transmitter
Station in the Florida Keys. Work involves upgrading one of two
existing electrical power services provided by the public utility
service to better accommodate the planned installation of a new 100kW
mediumwave transmitter system.

(Source: FedBizOpps)

Nobody listens to AM radio anymore. What a waste of money. Does this
mean KFI can go to 100 kW?

What happened to you? Smoking coal these days?

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

In article ,
David wrote:

Brenda Ann wrote:
"David" wrote in message
...
Nobody listens to AM radio anymore. What a waste of money. Does this
mean KFI can go to 100 kW?

This station is a special situation. It's most likely beamed toward Cuba,
and meant only for their listening. You can bet a LOT of folks in Cuba
still
listen to AM radio, since it's reasonably easy to get Florida stations
(when
the jammers aren't going... that is.. ergo the need to have a 100KW
signal).




You can get FL FM in Cuba, can't you? I suspect the Cubanos listen to
pop twaddle as much as anyone else and have little use for muddy old AM.

Jammers aren't necessary. Just make sure they get lots of cheap
dimmers. That's an AM radio killer.

I think you are on to something there. You should try running for office
in Cuba.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California