[BC] Cuban Broadcasts

[DHultsman5@aol.com]

In a message dated 8/19/2006 7:47:08 PM Central Daylight Time,  
kzerocx at rapidcity.net writes:

The  interesting thing is that they were all one second off on the ?  second
mark, when compared to WWV or WWVH.  It was verified with both  my digital
watch and my friend's Accutron.  I cannot remember whether  their error was
early or late, but we surmised that there had been a leap  second correction
that they failed to observe.

I imagined Castro to  have said "We don't observe no stinkin' capitalist  leap
seconds."

Gary, K?CX



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Gary:
 
As a peddler I have traveled all over the SE US for nearly 30 years.   Many 
times when driving back from Florida on a Friday night I would tune around  the 
AM dial.
 
In the early '80's Cuba was heavily under the influence of Russia.   The 
Radio Havana frequency of 600 kHz. had been taken over by the Russians and  was 
carrying programming on 600 kHz and the name of "The North AMerican Service  of 
Radio Moscow".
 
You could hear it regularly on 600 kHz. in the eastern US.   In  the Miami 
area you could hear it very good until about 10 AM during  daytime.  They 
evidently reduced power and went back to spanish programming  about 10 AM.
 
So I am driving home one Friday night and the audio fails.....You could  hear 
all types of control beeps and pops an switches evidently on the satellite  
link of the first mile or last mile telephoner lines. There was clearly a  
carrier for about 20 minutes and the audio finally returned.
 
As couple of engineers, in the Miami area, were talking about the  ocassional 
failures and if that might be a short life operators job.  "The  next failure 
of our North AMerican Service and its execution"    Jokingly put that they 
would take to operating engineer out back and shoot him  if a failure occurred.
 
Someone from Florida or elsewhere may want to comment on Radio Moscow  on the 
AM band in the USA.
 
Dave