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Mikey, As others have suggested, you probably are hearing a station of the Radio Reloj network on 790 from Cuban. The "World Radio TV Handbook" (WRTH) lists this as CMAQ, Pinar del Rio, 30 kW -- though details of Cuban stations, such as call sign, location and power are often little more than a best guess and change from time to time without notice. The top of the minute signal you hear is morse code for the letters R R, .-. .-. which IDs Radio Reloj. There are Cuban Radio Reloj stations scattered all through the AM broadcast band. 570, 820, 860, 870, 930, 950, 960, and 1020 are all frequently heard here. Not nearly so easy, though, where you are. You may be able to hear some of these at night, as they often do get out pretty well, especially along the east coast. Even if the Spanish language newscasts is covered under other stations, you may be able to identify some of them because of the time ticks and morse code signal, which can often still be heard. Good catch, Curt W. Curt Deegan Boca Raton, (Southeast) Florida mikey_n@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: I am on the East Coast (northern Brooklyn NY) - on 790 kHz in the hours just before dawn, I can hear a time signal station (under several commercial MW stations) - one beep per second, and some kind of encoded identification signal (sounds like it may be digital) once per minute. Can anyone help identify this station? Is it perhaps a harmonic from a LW beacon of some kind? Thanks, MN |
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