Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uwm.edu!lll-winken!telecom-request From: uccxmgm@unx2.ucc.okstate.edu Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Cuban Telephone Service Message-ID: Date: 26 Mar 91 23:34:27 GMT Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 34 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 244, Message 5 of 9 AM broadcast band. I have been hearing it regularly in north central Oklahoma for four or five years. As radio stations go, it isn't technically too bad unless you count telephone remote broadcasts. You may hear it quite clearly during the night time hours on 5.025MHZ. There is another frequency below the 80-meter ham band, but it doesn't make it nearly as well. The programming is fast-paced with lots of electronically synthesized music and even an occasional Western pop tune, (I wonder if they're paying ASCAP or BMI for the privilege?) Another domestic Spanish broadcasting system which used to be on the air daily, but doesn't show up much, these days, is La Radio National De Chile. They used to have a whapper of a signal on 15.140MHZ with local weather, sports, and, best of all, advertising. One could hear ads for computer stores, auto dealerships, and the local telephone company, whose name escapes me. In the mid 80's, Santiago had seven-digit phone numbers, but it seemed to be common to read them as one digit followed by three groups of two as in 2-36-66-66. There used to be a telephone company ad extolling the virtues of the company which had a pulsating tone as its background. It sounded for all the world like a busy signal. The ads would also tell telephone customers when rates were lowest just like here. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Oklahoma State University Computer Center Stillwater, OK