[ARC5] Non Directional Beacons

[Bart Lee]

ERROR, wishfull thinking:  I meant Alaskan NAVYEX.  Sorry.
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On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 12:10 PM, Bart Lee <kv6lee at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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> Bart Lee,
> Attorney at Law
> Office Phone 415 956 5959 x203
> Office Fax Line 415 362 1431
> Cell Phone 415 902 7168
> Snail Mail: 388 Market St #900
> San Francisco, CA 94111-5311
> www.bartlee.com
> <http://www.LawForHams.com>
>
>
> 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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