Cuba Jamming 40 Meters

[Wire Weasel]

(Government) of Cuba Jamming wide swaths of 40 meters in an attempt to prevent Cuban hams from relaying out info regarding the social protests going on there now.
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[Captain Kilowatt]

I saw a Youtube video of it and I am not convinced. There is a lot of digital noises etc on the bands nowadays especially 40m. The poster sounded like a disgruntled ex-pat. The QRM was spaced exactly every 5 KHz whereas any jamming I have ever heard, and it has been a LOT going back almost 50 years, was wideband and either hash noise or sweeping audio tones. The jamming claimed in the video could be worked around with decent filters.

 

[Rwb]

I saw a Youtube video of it and I am not convinced. There is a lot of digital noises etc on the bands nowadays especially 40m. The poster sounded like a disgruntled ex-pat. The QRM was spaced exactly every 5 KHz whereas any jamming I have ever heard, and it has been a LOT going back almost 50 years, was wideband and either hash noise or sweeping audio tones. The jamming claimed in the video could be worked around with decent filters.

read a small item about this,cant see how they could jam as much as claimed. think your right captain

 

[Captain Kilowatt]

read a small item about this,cant see how they could jam as much as claimed. think your right captain

Oh they probably could, just not likely IMHO. In the Cold War days there was a LOT of jamming going on and it was all wideband. Having narrowband discreet carriers is easy to avoid.

 

[Wire Weasel]

Here's the DF

https://k0lwc.com/direction-finding...3egbs-KW6edjtTD_tKLX-_XkfdwVBOiOQtiE7YUSadrIM

 

[secret squirrel]

Been a log time since Strangways called MI6 Communications from Jamaica. the beginning of Dr. No.

 

[Jay Mojave]

Any one remember Radio Swan in the early 1960's See

Radio Swan Brief History - broadcasting to Cuba (cuban-exile.com)

Jay in the Great Mojave Desert

 

[Rick330man]

Cuba jamming frequencies - ham or others - is a page out of their decades old playbook.

 

[Low_Boy]

Why would they only jam small slivers. Anyone could just move a few frequencies away. Or to another band.

 

[Wire Weasel]

Ha! ..... nobody ever claimed the communist Cuban government was smart

 

[Shadetree Mechanic]

 

[Rwb]

wonder what ol arnie on radio habana cuba is doing? kinda yanks the plug on his shortwave corner program wont it?

 

[Rick330man]

He's correct. Cuban jamming of U.S. radio is nothing new to south and central Florida.