maryanne kehoe wrote:
A lot of the MW Cubans are audible. I've heard 610 and 1180 R. Rebelde
at my Michigan house.

530 is Mexican station (call sgn?), 540 a Carribean. Anyone know if the
old 800AM TWR freq. is being used by anyone?

TWR is still using 800. However, they've reduced power to 100kw and
(more important) gone to a directional antenna favoring South America.

530 is actually in the Turks and Caicos Islands, off the east end of the
Bahamas chain. It's a religious station, and relays 1330 in NYC. (so
if the original poster hears a Spanish-language station on 530, he can
compare programming with his local and if they match, he's got the T&C
station.) 530 is indeed easily heard throughout the East.

(I'm trying to remember whether it's actually *on* 530. This station
has tried a number of frequencies in that general vicinity - 530, 532,
535, maybe even 531 for awhile?)

Yes, Cubans are present on a wide variety of frequencies.

1620 in the U.S. Virgin Islands has been widely heard. It's by far the
easiest English-language Caribbean station to hear. If you hear any
kind of music on 1620, stick with it. This station carries several
types of music (like country!) that you wouldn't expect to hear on a
Caribbean station.

810 and 1540 in the Bahamas have both made appearances here. They'll
probably be pretty tough in NYC though, due to the Albany-area stations
on both frequencies.

It's not really technically the Caribbean, but 1160 on Bermuda is
occasionally reported on the East Coast.

Of course, don't be fooled by foreign-language domestics. For example,
the dominant signal on 1540 around here is a Spanish-language station --
transmitting from Canada...
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