I'm currently in south Florida on business. Unlike most such trips, this one
included a weekend, allowing a bit of extra time for sightseeing Last
Saturday afternoon, I visited Everglades National Park, partly to see the flora
and fauna and partly as a daytime DXpedition of sorts. Most of my listening
was done near the Flamingo Visitor's Center, approximately 70 miles southwest
of Miami. Located near the southern tip of the Florida peninsula, it has a
clear salt water path to western Cuba. Cuban stations may be pesty
interference to DXers in the eastern US and Canada, but they're rare DX back
home in Seattle so I was genuniely interested in hearing them.
The receivers at my disposal included a Sony SRF-39FP and the radio in my
rental car, a Dodge Caliber. Most of my listening was done on the car radio,
but a fair amount was also done on the Sony, especially when it came time to
null out some of the strong stations. Here's a summary of stations heard, not
counting the stations in Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Naples, and most other south
Florida cities. The numbers in parentheses indicate the signal quality, with 1
being threshold audio and 5 being local quality. All times are local (UTC-4).
Most listening was done 1200-1600 LT, except as noted.
---Bruce
530 Cuban(4) with bits of presumed RVCI Turks & Caicos (1.5) in its null
540 Jumble (2) of 2-3 stations dominated by woman in Spanish possibly
//560
560 Cuban, in WQAM null (4)
570 Reloj (4)
590 Cuba, (5) running classical music show, "Radio Musical Nacional" ID,
another SS in its null
620 R Rebelde (5) loud with distorted audio
630 Cuban, don't recall which network (2)
640 R Progreso, (3) in WMEN null
670 Cuban (3.5) //620 with WWFE nulled
680 Cuban (2.5) //670
690 R Progreso (4), //730/750
710 R Rebelde (5) with WAQI nulled
730 Progreso (3.5) //750/690
750 Progreso (5), sounding much stronger than listed 1kw
790 Reloj ticker (2) in WAXY null
810 Bahamas, ZNS3 (4)
820 Reloj (3) in null of domestic SS station
840 Unid SS (4), probably Dobleve but didn't hear ID
850 Reloj (3) mixing with WFTL-West Palm Beach
860 Reloj (5)
870 Reloj (3) o/unid domestic
880 Progreso (3)
890 Progreso (5)
910 R Metropolitana (5), Habana, relaying Progreso network until 1800,
then broke away for local programming with Metropolitana ID.
930 Reloj (3) with unid domestic in background
950 Reloj (5)
960 Reloj (1), morse code "RR" noted several times under unid domestic
with standards music. Nothing else audible.
970 WFLA, Tampa (3.5), talk show and "970wfla.com" ID. At approx 220
miles, this was the most distant domestic I IDed. There may have been others
from Tampa-St Pete area or farther locations, but I was concentrating on Cubans
and generally didn't pursue domestics.
980 Cuban (5) with news format, probably CMCK (Coco, Peridico del Aire)
but never heard an ID
990 Spanish (3), probably Cuba
1060 Cuba (5), listed as CMDX but didn't hear ID, noted with several Bob
Marley tunes in early afternoon, had sports event later
1070 Cuba //1060 (2)
1080 Cuba //1100 (4) o/unid US station
1100 Cuba (5), apparently R Cadena Habana but didn't heard ID, //1080/1120
1120 Cuba (4) //1100
1180 Radio Marti (5+), loudest and closest station, splattering 1160-1200,
Unid Cuban underneath
1190 Unid (2) SS with tropical music, not sure if Cuban or domestic
1320 Cuba (3), Bob Marley music //1060
1340 Radio Ciudad del Mar, Palmira (5), two "CMFL, Radio Ciudad del Mar"
IDs at 1600, then alternating anmts by man & woman //1350. A few minutes
earlier they ran what sounded like a religious talk, a man with frequent
mentions of "Cristo" & music I would normally associate with Christian radio
shows. Unfortunately, I don't know enough Spanish to understand what he was
saying. It certainly seemed like unusual programming for a Cuban station..
1350 Radio Ciudad del Mar //1340 (3) with unid station in background
1450 Radio Guines (5), definite ID at 1558
1540 Unid SS station with opera (4), Radio Sagua listed, r&b music from
presumed ZNS1 Nassau (3) in its null
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