[ARC5] Non Directional Beacons

[Bart Lee]

One can still hear AM voice advisories and weather from Alaska airports,
around 395 KHz -- late at night, deep winter, from California.  I verified
one, "RWO."

Until a few years ago, one could hear the Russian Siberian broadcaster at
279 KHz, but it's gone now.

>From here near San Francisco, I can copy Hawaiian NAVTEX on 518 KHz, on a
good night.

73 de Bart, K6VK ##

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On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 11:50 AM, Mike Morrow <kk5f at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Ken wrote:
>
> > Last winter, using a refurbished BC-453 connected to a low end-fed wire
> and despite the
> > noise level, I managed to record over 50 NDBs in only two nights of
> listening.
> >
> > One, a Canadian beacon in the far north west corner of NWT, was at least
> 2500 miles away,
> > and was running only about 50 watts output.
> >
> > Another was in the Caribbean somewhere.
> >
> > NDB DX-ing is fun.
>
> That propagation was what helped make listening to the old MF maritime
> Morse band (410 to 535 kHz) so fascinating.  Signals at night (ship;s
> MASTER traffic, HYDROLANT/PAC and NAVAREA broadcasts, weather, etc.) coming
> from ship and coast stations thousands of miles away...and none of it for
> hobby purposes!  I began using a BC-453-A in 1965 to listen to the
> interesting activity on this band.  I never lost interest in it.  From 1984
> to 1999 (when maritime Morse usage ended) I kept a Kenwood R-600 on a
> bedside bookshelf always on and at night tuned to 500 kHz.  I miss that
> band's maritime activity and night-time propagation more than that of any
> other, including ham bands.
>
> NDBs were once a lot more interesting, with aviation weather and airport
> advisories running continuously at some beacons.  Fifty years ago, for
> local weather info I'd tune the BC-453-A to the NDB for Blytheville AFB in
> Arkansas.
>
> Today, I have a rarely-used R-1134B/WRR-3B 14 to 600 kHz receiver.  That's
> the same receiver that was used on USS Intrepid CVS-11 for 500 kHz watch
> when I was on board in 1971, and one was on USS Daniel Boone SSBN-629 when
> I was on board 1975-79...not often used.  I like it.
>
> I was too late to hear any MF Adcock A-N directional beacon signals.
>
> Mike / KK5F
>
>
>
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