NEW TRANSMITTERS WILL ALLOW RADIO HABANA CUBA TO RECOUP AUDIENCE.
With respect to short wave (a basically international radio sce), Justo Moreno Garcia, technical director of RADIOCUBA, announced that this year, six txs located in international txion center No. 1 in Bauta + west of the capital + are being automated. This will allow Radio Habana Cuba (RHC) to recover the spaces that this station had lost in diverse regions of the Americas where its signal used to reach.
In this same center, a seventh tx is being installed for Radio Rebelde, and an antenna system is being assembled. Moreno said that credits granted to Cuba by China for telecommunications
that allowed work on the installation in Bauta to begin in 2003.
The credit for $200 million was granted to the Cuban Electronics group by China's Import and Export Bank (EXIMBAK) via an agreement signed during President Jiang Zemin's visit to Cuba. It has mainly been used to improve short and medium wave radio services.
On a tour of the Bauta installation with Juan Carlos Perez Perez, its director, Granma International was able to corroborate the total change in technology in situ. Perez especially emphasized that "of the 45 days anticipated, we were able to reduce sce problems to two or three." As an interesting fact, Perez commented that it was precisely from there, and on RHC waves, that the program Alo Presidente, produced in Venezuela, is transmitted throughout Venezuela, live and direct via the national television channel.
Moreno informed that work is also underway in international txion centers No. 2 in Bejucal and No. 3 Titan in Quivican. The situation in those centers and the one in Bauta had been critical, he admitted: the equipment was "very old and inefficient," and the antenna systems and buildings were "very deteriorated." During the second semester of 2004, 20 new medium wave txs with digital technology will be installed, substituting the old and inefficient Czech TESLA equipment, Moreno reported. Those will add to the 17 that have already been installed, which provide sces in 12 totally remodeled centers.
Likewise, he added, 10 installations will be restored, the majority of them in the eastern provinces of Holguin, Granma and Guantanamo. These transformations will facilitate "a better quality signal, greater stability in sces, improvement in the coverage areas of these centers and
an increased level of energy efficiency," he affirmed. Work was needed to reverse the accumulated "profound deterioration" in the txion networks of television and short and medium wave and FM radio, further affected by the disappearance of socialism in the Eastern European
bloc. Added to that was the collapse of 14 radio towers and 4 TV towers in the wake of Hurricane Mitchell; RADIOCUBA was one of the enterprises in the country most affected by that hurricane.
During the second semester of 2004, 20 new medium wave txs with digital technology will be installed, substituting the old and inefficient Czech TESLA equipment, Moreno reported. Those will add to the 17 that have already been installed, which provide sces in 12 totally remodeled centers.
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(Source: WWDXC Top news BC DX # 781)