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Re: [HCDX] 1700 kHz French/Creole re-send due to many blank postings in HCDX
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Hello Carmen,
I don't know if your entire message came through, as it looks a little
cut off in the beginning. So in your bandscan from Bishop Playground in
Quincy, MA (according to Google), you have these.....pirates? The FCC
does not list any stations there.
Interesting that Lumiere is exactly on 1700 kHz in your list. The
Haitians have a huge diaspora in the cities you mentioned and many have
washed up on the shores of Miami as well, in fact, I would say there are
probably more in Miami and southern Florida than your other cities
combined. The simple fact is that it is closer to their shores than the
others. The same for the Cuban community.
I don't know if I would call 22.05 kHz +/- carrier CD quality. More
like splatter and distortion since the average AM radio was not intended
for more than 10kHz, and the stations are only allowed an occupied
bandwidth of 10 kHz, hence our spacing. There are two ways to get CD
quality on mediumwave: DRM and IBOC. And even then, it won't be true
CD quality like you might get with FM IBOC. Kahn and C-QUAM are high
fidelity, but not CD quality, and there is a lot of phase noise with
both. I can't imagine any of these stations could afford these methods,
but for C-QUAM or Kahn, and that modulation shown in your pic is outside
of the bandwidth for those modulation methods.
As for Lumiere, that is how I had potentially ID'ed the station last
night because the audio and ID's fit what I had heard. Lumiere is in
Haiti with FM stations and WRTH lists several MW outlets as well.
My concern with your list is whether or not these stations have the
output power and antenna system (even skywave) to radiate more than a
few miles from where they are located. I suspect they are FCC Part 15
stations with powers of 100 mW or less, or in some cases
"carrier-current" or campus stations. If you have any information on
powers/antennas, it would be helpful, as with the aforementioned, it is
all but impossible that the signal would make it to Florida or even PA.
The websites of the stations you provided mention frequencies, but never
powers, and Voix Divine has stolen the call letters of a station in
Syracuse, NY.
Thanks for the input and help.
73
Al
an area with significant Haitian diaspora. Montreal, Northern New Jersey, Boston, perhaps even Miami.
there is a significant MW expertise, although i expert there are a few "Arnies" or "Elmers" if you will - roughly half my local stations an ID voiced by the character audible in
http://soundcloud.com/unaudible/energie
to get you started, a bandscan at 42.27°N 71.03°W reveals:
R. Concorde 1.58 MHz http://radioconcorde.com/
R. Energy 1.62 http://www.radioenergyboston.com/
R. Nouvaute 1.64 http://www.radionouveaute.com/
Voix Divine 1.67 http://radiovoixdivine.com/
Bel Top 1.68 http://www.beltopboston.com/
CreoleInter 1.69 http://ambiancefm.tripod.com/
R. Lumiere 1.70 http://radiolumiere.org/
R. Soleil 1.71 http://www.radiosoleilinternational.com/
R. Un 1.71 http://www.radio1boston.net/
on AM, several signals are CD quality, with audio to 22.05kHz above and below the carrier - http://blog.whats-your.name/public/1690mondieu.png
a number of these use Zafemradio as a streaming host. you may wish to listen for || to facilitate ID
http://zafemradio.com/clientsradio.html
on FM i find these kreyol "emissions"
HaitiFM 87.9 http://haitifm.listen2myradio.com/
Bel Top 88.5 http://www.beltopboston.com/
PlanetCompas 89.3 http://www.planetcompas.com/
R. Energie 90.1 http://www.radioenergyboston.com/
Bel Mizik 91.3 http://belmizikfm.com/
Vision Star 91.7 http://radiovisionstar.com/
Radio1 98.9 http://www.radio1boston.net/
R.TeleBoston 100.1 http://radioteleboston.com/
R. Flex 100.3 http://radioflexfm.com/home/
Continentale 102.1 http://www.power1021fm.com/
this omits spanish-speaking 1.59, 1.61, 102.9 cape verdean 107.1 and english 96.5 101.3 105.3 106.1 as main topic here is haitian-speaking stations
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