HFguy wrote:

weatherall wrote:
running dogg Wrote:

Radio Havana is NEVER on time. Sometimes they'll start the hour five
minutes early, sometimes five minutes late. And it's never
predictable,
either, they could be early for a few days, then late for a week. Why
this is is anybody's guess. Maybe it's the laziness that's epidemic in
communist countries. Nothing gets done right, nothing gets done on
time,
a lot of it never gets done at all.


I remember listening to RHC at the top of the hour one night last
summer. It sounded like a tape was being played backwards. Then there
was silence for several minutes before the real broadcast arrived.

The backwards tape process is/was used to send a program to another site
where it was recorded. It was sent backwards so the tape didn't have to
be rewound before playing it on the air.

So much for modern technology. Even some third world countries have
digital transfers. I bet that they're still using 1960s Soviet tape
players-with the original tapes.