janospetrik wrote:

A lot of AM stations in my area (East coast) are difficult to hear
because of interference by a Spanish language station.
I was told awhile ago that it was because of a high-wattage station in
Cuba that was broadcasting because the US. was broadcasting to Cuban
listeners.

Does anyone have more information, or is this just another conspiracy
theory?
Thanks.

There's lots of Cubans at night, when MW band signals aren't attenuated
by collisions in the lower ionosphere. (The sun puts ions there when
the sun is up; charged particles are accelerated by radio waves, and
low frequency waves move them enough to experience collisions, which
dissipates the energy; otherwise they'd just reradiate it back to
the wave and nothing would be lost, in fact this is responsible for
reflection that the wave needs to return to earth, but MW wants it
at a less dense higher altitude to avoid collisions.)

Spanish in the day is from local origins.

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