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Apologies for withholding this DGI log entry but I had to be absolutely certain
that I hadn't gone just very slightly mad...
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YYYY-MM-DD Freq.
Time Ident Notes
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2012-12-03 5898
07:50 Carrier on; transmitter blink, dead air
07:57:59 V02a "Atención 78071 82312 14632"
08:00:56 V02a 78071: "58071 42404"
08:13:56 V02a 82312: "11466 30144"
08:26:56 V02a 14632: "73824 56076"
08:31:49 Music ¡¿!?
08:32:29 Dead ¿?
08:33:48 Music ¡!
08:41:03 Dead ¿?
08:41:11 Music ¡!
08:45:27 Dead ¿?
08:45:38 Music ¡!
08:48:45 Carrier off
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I did not change stations nor is my radio set to auto-tune at a given time so
you can imagine my surprise to hear music faintly emanating from the speaker.
Fortunately it also made its way onto my DAT so I was able to do a little
analysis (and self-sanity-checking) before writing this one up.
There's no static or noise to suggest that this was anything other than a clean
cut from V02a to music; the timber and tone of QRN and QRM remains the same.
You can hear the switchover for yourself 33:50 into
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B3HdNvyAc7FRR2tYbXFvZEplb0E
I can't pin down the lyrics due to the interference and the genre appears to be
Carribean-Spanish contemporary pop music. I can't tell salsa from merengue but
the call-response formulation of the music and the [dreaded] auto-tune of the
vocalists are clear. Lacking any typical catchphrases (suggestive of Radio de
Cristo) and lacking any station announcements (ruling out Radio Havana), I'd
say it was one of Pedro's albums on analog audio cassette: CDs typically have a
shorter track spacing and I don't think either Castro is fond of iPods.
The only thing I can't be certain of is the bass because the spectrogam below
100Hz looks atypical for music of this kind; one would expect a two- or
three-note pattern repeated throughout, but I'm seeing many different
basslines. Also, if this is coming from off a cassette then all I can say is
that I'm impressed by the quality of the medium: bass response like that is
hard to find nowadays.
For all I know it could be DGI's way of saying "there's a new schedule, Spooks,
so let's say 'Adiós' by partying like it's 1999 to a reggetón mixtape."
And there you have it.
✇ ＫＣ２ＴＴＫ
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