Thunderstorm interference on 49m tonight?
 

In article ,
running dogg wrote:
I noticed that Radio Havana's 6000 freq was subject to loud pops and
abrupt changes in signal level tonight around 0400. 9820 was not
affected, but was too weak to listen to. The loud popping followed by
rapid oscillation in signal level made Cuba impossible to listen to. Did
anybody else notice this? Could this have been thunderstorms in the
northeast?

How about thunderstorms or power supply problems at the transmitter site?

Mark Zenier
Googleproofaddress(account:mzenier provider:eskimo domain:com)

Thunderstorm interference on 49m tonight?
 

In article ,
(Mark Zenier) wrote:

In article ,
running dogg wrote:
I noticed that Radio Havana's 6000 freq was subject to loud pops and
abrupt changes in signal level tonight around 0400. 9820 was not
affected, but was too weak to listen to. The loud popping followed by
rapid oscillation in signal level made Cuba impossible to listen to. Did
anybody else notice this? Could this have been thunderstorms in the
northeast?

How about thunderstorms or power supply problems at the transmitter site?

Mark Zenier
Googleproofaddress(account:mzenier provider:eskimo domain:com)

They also have audio problems. They are at times under-modulated, over
modulated and splattering adjacent frequencies, missing the high end
audio or just plain distorted. The defective audio changes with program
content and the transmitter being used so appears to be related to both.

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Telamon
Ventura, California

Thunderstorm interference on 49m tonight?
 

Telamon wrote:

In article ,
(Mark Zenier) wrote:

In article ,
running dogg wrote:
I noticed that Radio Havana's 6000 freq was subject to loud pops and
abrupt changes in signal level tonight around 0400. 9820 was not
affected, but was too weak to listen to. The loud popping followed by
rapid oscillation in signal level made Cuba impossible to listen to. Did
anybody else notice this? Could this have been thunderstorms in the
northeast?

How about thunderstorms or power supply problems at the transmitter site?

Mark Zenier
Googleproofaddress(account:mzenier provider:eskimo domain:com)

They also have audio problems. They are at times under-modulated, over
modulated and splattering adjacent frequencies, missing the high end
audio or just plain distorted. The defective audio changes with program
content and the transmitter being used so appears to be related to both.

I bet that their equipment is the SAME STUFF that was installed by the
USSR in the early 60s when Cuba first went communist. It is old, and it
is likely close to failing. The former Soviet Bloc is full of old,
half-dead former propaganda blowtorches that now broadcast various paid
programming and Russian domestic stuff at half the original power.
Considering Cuba's dire circumstances, such as concrete buildings that
are held up solely by wood beam props, it wouldn't surprise me if the
Cubans were cannibalizing dead tx's to keep the living ones going, like
they do in Laos.