[ARC5] NDB IDs - now you've done it

[Bill Cromwell]

Okay...

I don't already have enough to do. Now I'm hunting NDBs too. I put the
RAK on the 135 foot wire last night and sprinted from 500kc  down to
just under 300kc (I ran out of gas). I logged 10 of them. The farthest
(by Google Maps) is about 825 (air) miles in a straight line northeast
to the far end of Quebec province from Michigan. Second best was also in
Quebec Province but only 440 miles. A Pennsylvania airport at about 365
miles made it in, too. And the airport at Grayling Michigan - a whopping
14 miles north! Not too bad for a first attempt. There were a great many
other, unidentified signals, yoops, bloops, burps, and farts up and down
the dial. Where another nearby airport (Traverse City, MI) should have
been was some other overwhelming racket. Some of those unidentified
'signals' are probably just spurious QRM but some of them probably not.
Maybe eventually I'll be able to identify some of them.

I'm sure I should be able to copy some of the stations transmitting
digital signals at 600 meters but so far no joy. Part of the problem
with that is setting the dial on a capable radio to the nearest
milliherz and leaving it parked overnight with the computer while I
sleep. I will be using the NDB's as correction for my dial charts
(grin). So DXing the NDBs (and anything else I can dig out) has
practical uses. See the trouble you all have caused!

73,

Bill  KU8H