One use for RCI Sackville's transmitters : transmitting the VOA Persian and
VOA Arabic services to the Americas.

It seems that (VOA) IBB transmitters are too busy transmitting (IBB's) Radio
Marti to bother to transmit VOA Persian and VOA Arabic 24 hours a day to the
Americas.

Radio Marti is geopolitically (moot and pointless) on SW.
Radio Marti was not set up to transmit on SW at the time of its creation.
MW was (exclusively chosen) at the time for sound geopolitical reasons.

It goes without saying:
The Cubans have no desire to delete out of existence various US cities with
high killing power weapons.
In comparison to Islamic extremists -- Castro's Cuba is a loyal US ally --
in the way the UK is a US ally.

Using existing 1500-1700 kHz (omni?) directional MW transmitters [in use by
existing US stations] in the South and Southwest to transmit Radio Marti
would be just as effective as the current SW + MW approach.

Even if Cuba did decide to jam the MW transmissions, barrage broadcasting on
MW would quickly defeat that.
MW barrage broadcasting is infinitely adaptable, and the (IBB) BSEE's would
have a very interesting workload.

The current 100 kw MW Radio Marti transmitter could be switched off, as
polar ice cap melting will inundate the coral atoll that the IBB uses to
transmit Radio Marti on MW. The US, by operating this 100 kw MW transmitter
is violating the US-CAN-MEX 50 kw [power limit] MW transmission interference
treaty.

My suggestions don't significantly ratchet up the level of oscillating
antagonism that exists between the US and Cuba.

In closing:
TV Marti -- that government department should be reserved for the children
and friends of the (Republican) Upper and Ruling Class Cubans in South
Florida. Without TV Marti the US Republican Party would have no way to hand
out political favours to the children of its Upper and Ruling class
supporters in South Florida. TV Marti was never set up with being a real TV
broadcaster in the 1st place, in the way that typical US broadcast and cable
TV broadcasters are set up.

CBC TV's "The Beachcombers" had more destructive political effects in the
GDR (E Germany) than a substantial amount of the hard political broadcasting
into E Europe at the time. You don't need hard political broadcasting to
achieve a political effect -- a moral lesson forgotten during a lot of the
cold war.

Looks like soon, we'll need only FM transmitters for the Persian service.

(LOL)

-Steve