Von: BueschelW@web.de im Auftrag von Wolfgang Bueschel ...

Yes, and this is part of our station's history.
Our first transmitter to be put on the air was an American made Gates one
Kilowatt short wave set using a 4-1000A tetrode final amplifier tube,
modulated by two 833's, and it was connected to a half way [sic] dipole
antenna strung between two power company wooden poles that were about 45
feet high, that is about 13 meters above the ground, a very low height for
a 49 meters band dipole antenna by all standards; but as our chief antenna
engineer said, those two utility wooden poles allowed us to be on the air.
Our second transmitter was a brand new Swiss made Brown Boveri 10
kiloWatts rig, that was installed in a provisional building at the Bauta
transmitting station site. The beautifully built Brown Boveri was a
masterpiece of radio engineering, and we had it on the air in record time
from the moment the wooden crates arrived in Bauta.
The third transmitter was quite a challenge, as never before in Cuba's
radio history our engineers and technicians had installed and operated a
one hundred kilowatt transmitter. Cuba's most powerful transmitters in
1961 were CMBC Radio Progreso and CMQ, both using AM broadcast equipment
made by Westinghouse and running 50 kiloWatts.
Before the big Brown Boveri 100 kiloWatt transmitter was on the air,
Cuba's most powerful ever short wave transmitter was owned and operated by
COCO, and it was a 5 kiloWatt rig that went on the air way back in 1937 in
a failed attempt to link several AM medium wave transmitters located at
different Cuban provinces using the short wave signal sent from Havana and
picked up with a radio at the remote sites.
So, putting the 100 kiloWatts Brown Boveri on the air was a historical
landmark in Cuban radio history, and the transmitter was up and running
just a few days before the Bay of Pigs invasion that began with the 15th
of April air attack against three Cuban airports and continued with the
landing of a 1500 strong mercenary force that was defeated in less than
72 hours.
So, on the 16th of April, when Fidel announced that Cuba was broadcasting
with its own high power short wave station, we had three transmitters on
the air at the same time, the one Kilowatt Gates, and the 10 kiloWatts and
100 kilowatts Brown Boveri's.
A few months later, the Bauta site, located west of the Cuban capital, had
on the air two more Brown Boveri's completing the installation of the four
transmitters and proceeding to install more and better antennas.
Si amigos, yes my friends, oui mes amis, I had the unique opportunity, as
a very young radio technician to participate in the installation of our
station's first transmitters and studio to transmitter UHF links; and
today I want to pay tribute to the many Cuban radio engineers, technicians
and antenna crews that made possible the installation and operation of
Radio Havana Cuba's first transmitting station.
(Arnie Coro-CUB CO2KK, RHC DXers Unlimited script April 17
via Yimber Gaviria, playdx yg via dxld)
EGYPT 9305.07 (9305.08 at 0650) Radio Cairo in Arabic, radioplay on odd
channel, at 0005 UT on April 25. Only poor S=6-7.
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