I need some help with an unID heard last Sunday night on 1040 kHz. The station
is in SS and I have never heard an SS station on 1040 before. If you are
willing to help, I have an mp3 file that I can send you off-list. I would
appreciate very much your reaction to what you hear on this file. Thank you
very much in advance.
On Sunday night Barry McLarnon posted of hearing Radio Mayabeque Cuba on 1040
kHz, made possible by some auroral enhancement and by the absence of WBZ
IBOC.Since I too suffer from WBZ IBOC, his tip inspired me to also try 1040. As
Barry wrote, "The WBZ IBOC outage may not last for much longer, so get 'em
while you can...." And sure enough, two nights later he reported that WBZ IBOC
was back. DX opportunity shut down for the unforeseeable future. So here I am
with the Sunday unID.
One result of the lack of WBZ IBOC was to strengthen WHO's signal, but also
present was a weak SS signal mostly below WHO. A breakthrough came at the start
of the Fox newscast on WHO, at 0500 UTC (Monday). Tuning down WHO with the
passband filter I got a minute or so of relatively clear signal from the
station, with WHO in and out. A man talked followed by a woman singing for
about 20 seconds (an ID? a product jingle?) followed by the song "It Never
Rains in Southern California"; then the signal went back below WHO. All of this
is included on the mp3.
If this is Radio Mayabeque, I have very little evidence to confirm it. At one
point I think I hear the words "la Revolucion" almost immediately followed by a
clear "Mayabeque," Two problems, however, with "Mayabeque": it is not proceded
by the word "Radio" and it is pronounced with a pause between the second and
third syllables of this four-syllable word, i.e. Maya-beque. So it remains an
unID at present.
Ideas? Any help on this one will be greatly appreciated! Thank you.
73 Bill Dvorak Madison WI
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