My memories of that time period, are that the big jammer and spy station was
Radio Swan on 1160. This was said to be a CIA station on Swan Island with
studios in Miami, FL. Is it possible that it's the same people running Radio
Marti, but just under a different name?
I do have a QSL card for
--- Jim Pogue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nothing in the 1962 or 1963 issues.
1966 issue lists Marathon, Florida (50 kW - 1180 kc) and Sugarloaf,
Florida
(50 kW - 1040 kc).
Sorry I don't have the '64 and '65 issues to confirm when these
stations
first showed up in print. Hope this
Jim Pogue wrote:
Nothing in the 1962 or 1963 issues.
1966 issue lists Marathon, Florida (50 kW - 1180 kc) and Sugarloaf, Florida
(50 kW - 1040 kc).
Sorry I don't have the '64 and '65 issues to confirm when these stations
first showed up in print. Hope this helps.
I don't have a '65,
Thanks all.
If got 'hold of George Jacobs yesterday. He was involved in both the
original 1180 selection for VOA Marathon and the 'Marti-izing' of the
site in '85.
He relayed that work began on VOA Marathon in 1962, after the 'Cuban
missle crisis.' So that it was on-air in '64 is about
--- Bill Whitacre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I recall visiting the site in '84 or so and it looked like something
'temporary' that was made permanent later on. We have other relay
stations like that in VOA's network.
*** A batch of us visited from the 1972 Coral Gables NRC convention.
Russ -
Checking back in my logbooks, I first heard 1040 on 01/12/64 and 1180 on
11/24/62.
Bob Pietsch
Rocklin CA
Russ Edmunds wrote:
--- Scott Fybush [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jim Pogue wrote:
Nothing in the 1962 or 1963 issues.
1966 issue lists Marathon, Florida (50 kW - 1180 kc)
My colleagues at Radio Marti like to think that jamming began with them!
Can someone pls remind me when VOA started using 1180 in Marathon
Key, FL?
Was it co-channeled by the Cubans prior to Marti?
Thanks.
bw
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Bill Whitacre
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--- Bill Whitacre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My colleagues at Radio Marti like to think that jamming began with
them!
Can someone pls remind me when VOA started using 1180 in Marathon
Key, FL?
Was it co-channeled by the Cubans prior to Marti?
Thanks.
VOA was operating on 1180
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--- Bill Whitacre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My colleagues at Radio Marti like to think that jamming began with
them!
Can someone pls remind me when VOA started using 1180 in Marathon
Key, FL
--- Jim Pogue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have copies of '62, '63 and '66 WRTH - is there something I can
look up?
If you could, try to see in which issue each of the following showed up
- VOA Marathon Key, FL - 1180 VOA Tortugas ( or alternatively Dry
Tortugas Key, FL - 1040.
Russ
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