Ancient Web: BAMLog’s Cuban Radio Map Catalogued the AM Dial by Transmitter

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For most listeners, a radio dial is a sequence of stations. For a dedicated medium-wave enthusiast it is a map of transmitters, frequencies, antenna systems, and signals that can travel across water at night.

Explore the BAMLog Cuba Radio Map.

The page describes itself as a compilation based on EcuRed and MWMasts data and is organized by AM frequency, starting at 530 kilohertz. Under each frequency it lists stations, transmitter locations, and often coordinates precise enough to plot on a map.

Radio Rebelde appears repeatedly, transmitting from towns across Cuba rather than from one central antenna. Radio Reloj, Radio Progreso, Radio Enciclopedia, and regional networks occupy other entries. A station at Habana–Villa María, for instance, is listed at 530 kilohertz along with notes on sharing an antenna system with transmissions at 910 and 1080 kilohertz.

The crucial detail is the antenna site

Many entries explain that different stations share physical facilities. The page uses terms such as 'diplexed' and 'triplexed' to indicate multiple transmissions using one installation. Some locations have exact coordinates; others are identified only by town or explicitly marked unknown. That mix of detail and uncertainty is the signature of a working reference list.

Small icons on the page are intended to open transmitter sites through Google Earth. A note warns that the appropriate software must be installed, a reminder of when linking a desktop mapping program into a website seemed like a straightforward enhancement.

The table also identifies stations that were inactive when the list was assembled, and mentions older transmitter sites replaced or closed. These details are more historically useful than a simple list of stations that can supposedly be heard today.

No creation date for the page is established by its visible content. It therefore belongs in this collection as a specialist reference archive preserving broadcast infrastructure and reception knowledge, not as a proven 1990s homepage. The list's transmitter data should be checked against current regulatory and engineering sources before being treated as up-to-date.

What makes it distinctive is the editorial labor: somebody took a nation's complicated network of radio signals and made it browseable in ordinary HTML.

Browse the frequency-by-frequency map.

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