For One and All,

Radio Marti on 5.980 MHz in Spanish via Delano, CA. USA
Program Content : Top of the Hour News OM & YL plus Cuban Music
Frequency : 5.980 MHz
Time : 9:00 UTC
S-Meter : 9+10~9+20 with Great Booming Audio
SIO Code : 5.5.5

Radio Marti - Office of Cuba Broadcasting (US-IBB)
RADIO MARTI = http://www.martinoticias.com/

Radio Marti - Shortwave Frequency Schedule
RADIO MARTI = http://www.martinoticias.com/frequencies.htm

FACTS - The International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB)
http://dosfan.lib.uic.edu/usia/usiahome/ibbfacts.htm

Shortwave Radio "Relay" Station Delano, CA managed by the IBB
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delano%2C_California

ABOUT - "Radio Marti" - by Nick Grace
http://www.qsl.net/yb0rmi/marti.htm
Hosted by the Clandestine Radio Intel QSL Gallery

INFO - "Radio Marti" - Source Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Marti

Clandestine Radio: An Anti-Castro Historiography
http://www.cubapolidata.com/ach/ach.html
"Tyranny is the same in all its shapes, even though sometimes
it dresses in handsome names and grand deeds." - José Martí

Radio Marti and the Voice of America
Voice of America (VOA) - Source Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VOA
Technically Radio Marti and the Voice of America (VOA) are
Separate organizations; with the same oversight IBB Agency and
controlling body the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadca...d_of_Governors

ABOUT - The "S I O" Codes = http://tinyurl.com/7up5u
S = Signal Strength
I = Interference
O = Overall Quality
SIO Codes = http://www.ewtn.com/radio/monitoring_form.htm

LIST - Global HF Transmitter Site Table
List of the World's Shortwave Radio Relay Stations (from HFCC)
http://www.radiobanter.com/showthread.php?t=28900

INFO - "Grey Line" Map and Near-Real-Time "MUF" Map
http://dx.qsl.net/propagation/propagation.html

QSL - Information Pages - Clandestine Radio Stations
Broadcasting to Cuba
http://www.schoechi.de/cl-cub.html#R%20Marti

REPORTING - QSLs from DXing.Com
http://www.dxing.com/reportin.htm

What is a QSL Card? - Radio Netherlands
http://www2.rnw.nl/rnw/en/features/m...cal/what_.html
QCL - Hints
http://www2.rnw.nl/rnw/en/features/m...cal/hints.html

Writing Shortwave Listener Reception Reports
and Obtaining QSL Cards
http://www.inwit.com/inwit/links/sho...ionreport.html

What is a proper Shortwave Reception Report for a QCL ?
http://www.hard-core-dx.com/nordicdx/dxlab/qsl_id.html

QCL Report Form (PDF File) - BCL News .It
http://www.bclnews.it/form/inglese.pdf

Welcome to Rec.Radio.Shortwave (Shortwave)
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/radio/monit...shortwave-faq/


yes - i am simply enjoying my radios ~ RHF
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My Radio/Receiver : Icom R75 (R-75) with Kiwa Mods
AM-SYNC "Off" and PRE-AMPS "Off"
using an RCA (RadioShack) External Speaker Cat # 40-5024
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My Shortwave Listening (SWL) Antenna :
* Low Noise Inverted "L" Antenna - a la John Doty
* Laid-out East-to-West Tip-to-Tip
* 15 Foot Vertical-Up-Leg with a 30 Foot Horizontal-Out-Arm
* Wire Antenna Element = 50 Strands of #41 Litz Wire = 20 AWG
* TV 'type' 300 Ohm to 75 Ohm Matching Transformer
* RG6 Coax Cable Feed-in-Line about 25 Feet Long
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My Location : OK-Land, Cali-4-Ni-A, USofA
* Metro-Area : SF Bay Area
* Geographic Region : Northern California
* World : West Coast of the USA (North America)
* Global : 122W24 Longitude by 37N78 Latitude
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