Current Broadcasting
Located on Havana's Avenida Infanta, the offices of Radio Havana Cuba share a facility with two other renowned national stations that have contributed greatly to the history of Cuban radio broadcasting: Radio Progreso and CMBF, Radio Musical Nacional. Currently, RHC broadcasts in nine languages: Spanish, English, French, Portuguese, Arabic, Quechua, Guarani, Creole and Esperanto, 24 hours a day, with a varied programming that includes news, music and features. RHC's English-language broadcasts are heavily centered on the U.S.A and feature news items that uniformly adversely reflect upon the U.S. government and the current administration, especially its foreign policies.
In 2004, RHC and related mediumwave transmitters, such as Radio Rebelde, broadcast speeches by Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez as well as Castro.
RHC was off the air temporarily in late August 2004 due to damage caused by Hurricane Charley.
The station broadcasts Cuban popular music frequently, as well as tips for amateur radio hobbyists from announcer Arnie Coro in a programme known as DXers Unlimited. Another popular announcer was Keith Perron in the early 1990s who went on to work for China Radio International and is now host of the Taiwan based Happy Station show.
The shortwave numbers station nicknamed "Atencion" by independent shortwave listeners has been linked to RHC radio transmissions equipment. In numbers station transmissions, a series of seemingly meaningless numbers are read out over the air, either in English or Spanish. These audible transmission of numbers are believed to be one-time coded messages to espionage agents residing in the targeted country. Numbers station monitors have noted that on occasion RHC interval signals have been heard at the beginning or end of intelligence-related transmissions. The United States Government convicted the Cuban Five with evidence that was intercepted and decoded from Atencion.
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