"Brenda Ann" wrote in message
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"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.

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.