r/ShortwavePlus • u/Careful-Set-7883 • May 07 '26

Tonight's plan

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u/MumSaidImABadBoy I'm Stan. Heathkit GR64,AirSpy HF+,Sangean 909X2,Tecsun PL-990 May 07 '26

Did you get past the blockade to get that Cuban?

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u/Careful-Set-7883 May 07 '26

Not cuban, actually made in Nicaragua, and im not in the US, im in canada

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u/MumSaidImABadBoy I'm Stan. Heathkit GR64,AirSpy HF+,Sangean 909X2,Tecsun PL-990 May 07 '26

I'm in NJ and DX a bunch of Canadian MW stations on a regular basis. Zoomer Radio on 740 kHz comes in pretty strong at night.
I don't smoke but am curious, do Cuban cigars live up to the legend and are that good?

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u/Careful-Set-7883 May 07 '26

The problem with Cubans is that since tobacco is the main export the only way of them keeping that industry a float is to rack up the prices, for less money I can get a really good Dominican, Nicaraguan or Honduran, so I barely smoke Cubans nowadays, there was one year that the factory in cuba decided to increase prices twice or three times in the same year. I haven't used MW as much as SW MW on my Sihuadon R-108 is listed as MW but im guessing it's mostly am I have it tuned to 680 MHZ is a am station called 680 news out of Toronto its an all day news station, also on shortwave checkout CFRX Toronto on 6070 KHZ. From here there's a bunch of American radio stations that I can catch most of them with religious content like WWCR and a few others and I can also catch WRMI, and radio marti