In article k.net,
says...
For frequencies and times I think you'd do OK if you
got Monitoring Times magazine's issue that coincides
with your trip... going it March? Get the March issue.
They come out around the last day of each month in
bookstores (or did) and I get my subscription issue during
the last week of each month.

If you subscribe to the electronic version (MT Express, the whole
magazine in Adobe Acrobat PDF format), you can download each issue on
the 20th of the month prior to the publishing date (i.e., the March
issue will be available on February 20th). Print out what you want to
have in hardcopy and read the rest on your PC. Works nicely for me.

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-- //Steve//

Steve Silverwood, KB6OJS
Fountain Valley, CA
Email:

In article ,
says...
If I was going to Cuba, I would buy
a $100 worth of cheap SW radios and
then give the radios to Cubans during
my visit.

Which is exactly why the Cuban government gets paranoid about shortwave
radios. You can probably slide through with one small radio, but if
they catch you with a whole bunch of them it's pretty obvious what you
plan to do with them, and they'll all get confiscated...!

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-- //Steve//

Steve Silverwood, KB6OJS
Fountain Valley, CA
Email:

Me too. I work in the arctic 2 weeks every month and I download it from
there. It takes a while on a phone line but I do it overnight.


"Steve Silverwood" wrote in message
t...
In article k.net,
says...
For frequencies and times I think you'd do OK if you
got Monitoring Times magazine's issue that coincides
with your trip... going it March? Get the March issue.
They come out around the last day of each month in
bookstores (or did) and I get my subscription issue during
the last week of each month.

If you subscribe to the electronic version (MT Express, the whole
magazine in Adobe Acrobat PDF format), you can download each issue on
the 20th of the month prior to the publishing date (i.e., the March
issue will be available on February 20th). Print out what you want to
have in hardcopy and read the rest on your PC. Works nicely for me.

--

-- //Steve//

Steve Silverwood, KB6OJS
Fountain Valley, CA
Email:

When I went to Cuba in 1989, I took a small analogue Sangean radio
with me. I had no problems clearing Customs in the Havana airport.
They opened my suitcase in front of me, checked around for anything
suspicious and waved me through.

We stayed at the Hotel Deuville on the malecon in Havana for a week.
This was a time when the Soviets where still on the island. In fact, I
met one Russian soldier who wanted to practice his English with me and
he had a Soviet-made radio with him to pick up Radio Moscow. As I
recall, I didn't do much listening during the time I was there.

Don't forget to visit Radio Havana Cuba while there. It's located
inside the Radio Progreso building downtown.

FO&A,

QUESTION: Anyone Know "IF" It Is Legal ?
For a Cuban 'citizen' to Listen to Foreign Shortwave Radio Broadcasts ?
? Or, is this a 'considered' Counter-Revolutionary Activity ?


FWIW: A "Item" for 'personal use' usually is not Restricted:

Translation: One "Each" Only for Personal Use [.] Things like
a Camera, Video Camera, AM/FM/SW Radio, Tape Recorder, Bible
and a Bottle of Booze.

NOTE: Bring in any one item in multiple numbers; and you may
be suspected for commercial activity. You will be asked for
an Export Document from your 'country of origin' to the host
country. This usually results in "All-but-One" Item being
confiscated. (Until the Proper Paper Work is Completed.)


jm2cw ~ RHF
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In article ,
says...
If I was going to Cuba, I would buy
a $100 worth of cheap SW radios and
then give the radios to Cubans during
my visit.

Which is exactly why the Cuban government gets paranoid about shortwave
radios. You can probably slide through with one small radio, but if
they catch you with a whole bunch of them it's pretty obvious what you
plan to do with them, and they'll all get confiscated...!

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