Ailing Castro's Cuba signals crackdown on pirate TV

Reuters/Yahoo ^ | Aug 9, 2006

[shield]

I heard on local nbc news...that Fidel's birthday party celebration will take place and he'll be in attendence. They also reported that Fidel's surgery was a colostomy. So we'll see if that report is true...guess he's not dead yet.

Colostomy's aren't performed unless cancer is heavily involved. Tony Snow had this and is surviving quiet well...but Tony Snow is a much younger man and receives the very best treatment available in the world.

[jazusamo]

Each day that passes and articles like this surface makes it more likely that Fidel is at room temperature.

[AdvisorB]

I spent five days altogether in Habana, Santiago, and Bahia deNipa. I didn't spend money there, I just walked around and took in the "sites." The Cuban people are very proud, and for the most part, they dressed well considering most of them had little or next to nothing.

[Bobalu]

There are likely also 2-way internet access dishs in use in Cuba.

All you have to do is sign up and have installed a wildblue
2-way system and then get the uplink/downlink dish and modem to Cuba. As long as the dish is registerd in florida it should operate in Cuba since it will be able to hit the same spot beam since it is just a bit south.

My tip would be to calculate the position of the satellite and dig a nice hole and put the equipment under ground level. Then cover the hole with something that is radio lucent in the GHZ range used.... this would be hard to spot if properly done. You could uplink video (slowly) using a setup like this...could be fun if counter-revolution comes to Cuba :-)

[Calvin Locke]

Canada was doing the same thing a few years ago. Yes, there was their-FCC equivalent complaining, the
state funded CBC, but also the companies that got the monopolies on the sat tv market.

And the tax authorities, of course.

I presume some wanted FNC at the time, but most were immigrants getting whatever language/country
service too.

Cuba has their laws.

I remember reading, before the 18" dishes, that Iranians not enthused with just three networks - the
anti-West Allah Channel, The Beheading Channel, and The Stoning Channel etc., would try to
disguise their dishes as patio furniture.

[Sonny M]

I feel sorry for Cuba.

They are about to go from bad to worse.

Castro was the cuban version of Lenin.

Now, they are going to get the cuban version of Stalin.