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Are you aware that the Cuban government is jamming ham radio signals in the 40 meter band?

The Cuban Government has shut down all lines of communication to the island including internet access and right now the people are in the middle of a Humanitarian Crisis. As soon as we started to pass information back and forth on 7/11 the Cuban totalitarian regime started to cause malicious interference on the SSB portion 40 Meter US Band from 7.125-7.175 making the section unusable.







Posted - July 15, 2021
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  • 53531

     

      Seems par for the course. 

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      July 15, 2021 9:43 PM MDT
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  • 757
    Yeah, but there's other bands they can reach us on. 
      July 15, 2021 11:26 PM MDT
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  • 44660
    I thought you said you knew nothing about golf scoring.
      July 16, 2021 9:48 AM MDT
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  • 53531

     

      I have ABSOLUTELY no idea what it means in golf, nor how it applies to golf scoring, but being the word-nerd that I am, since early childhood I have been QUITE FAMILIAR with its meaning as an expression, idiom, or adage. 



    (Don’t try to test me, Professor.  Grrrrrrr.)
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      July 16, 2021 5:05 PM MDT
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  • 44660
    They can try the other side band.
      July 16, 2021 6:37 AM MDT
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  • 19937
    No, I wasn't aware.  
      July 16, 2021 8:26 AM MDT
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  • 44660
    Do you even care?
      July 16, 2021 9:48 AM MDT
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  • 19937
    No, I don't.  
      July 16, 2021 11:58 AM MDT
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  • 16843
    The Cuban government has NOT "shut down all lines of communication to the island", merely the wavelengths it uses for emergency and classified intel (which civilians should not be on in any case). The anti-government protests in Havana are mainly driven by the economic inertia imposed by COVID-19 and the lack of publicly available vaccines - and that goes DIRECTLY to the decades-long US sanctions against Cuba, (which were made even more draconian by a President whose racism against Hispanics was obvious) and which the Biden administration has as yet failed to ease. All three companies which make proven vaccines are US-based, which means Cuba has a job getting them.
      July 16, 2021 10:40 PM MDT
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