{"id":23376,"date":"2017-01-14T06:00:12","date_gmt":"2017-01-14T10:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=23376"},"modified":"2017-01-13T07:54:31","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T11:54:31","slug":"video-ivan-surveys-cuban-tv-from-a-cruise-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/video-ivan-surveys-cuban-tv-from-a-cruise-ship\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Ivan surveys Cuban TV from a cruise ship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Cuba-TV.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-23378 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Cuba-TV.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Cuba-TV.jpg 640w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Cuba-TV-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Cuba-TV-624x345.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Ivan Cholakov, who shares the following:<\/p>\n<p>[W]hile on a cruise ship 30 miles off the coast of Cuba (January 2017) I pointed a small active antenna towards the island and scanned for old fashioned analog TV.<\/p>\n<p>The results show analog TV is alive and well in Cuba! Multiple programs on multiple channels.<\/p>\n<p>From what I understand Cuba has selected the Chinese digital TV standard but using their own channel spacing so I am not aware of any receivers that can pick up Cuba&#8217;s digital TV transmissions.<\/p>\n<p>I posted the YouTube\u00a0video of my channel scan here:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uRXzLAgHZ-4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/uRXzLAgHZ-4\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to view on YouTube.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Ivan Cholakov, who shares the following: [W]hile on a cruise ship 30 miles off the coast of Cuba (January 2017) I pointed a small active antenna towards the island and scanned for old fashioned analog TV. The results show analog TV is alive and well in Cuba! Multiple programs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,554,1154],"tags":[5823,1800,5822,5391,5002,3298],"class_list":["post-23376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-slightly-off-topic","category-travel","tag-analog-tv-dx","tag-cuba","tag-cuba-tv","tag-ivan-cholakov-no2cw","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-652","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24044,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/video-ivans-airborne-tv-dx-catches\/","url_meta":{"origin":23376,"position":0},"title":"Video: Ivan&#8217;s Airborne TV DX catches","author":"Thomas","date":"February 8, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor,\u00a0Ivan Cholakov (NO2CW), who writes: A while back I shared a short story about FM reception from commercial jetliners. I do that regularly on my flights but I also gave \"Airborne TV DX\" a try. 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Fascinating!\u00a0 I've always been curious about SDR power consumption because many of my SDRs are rarely\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/SDR.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/SDR.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/SDR.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/SDR.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":36182,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/video-n1spy-brings-a-ge-seven-band-radio-back-to-life\/","url_meta":{"origin":23376,"position":3},"title":"Video: N1SPY brings a GE seven band radio back to life!","author":"Thomas","date":"February 27, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Ivan Cholakov, who writes: Thomas Cholakov (N1SPY) picked up an old General Electric radio from the 2019 Orlando Hamcation and brought it back to life. 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