[ARC5] Non Directional Beacons

[Leslie Smith]

  G'day Ken!
  Here, in Australia, there are many NDBs active.  At night the band
  comes alive.
  I have a log here of stations I heard on a single night - it's about
  the size of a spreadsheet - so probably 40 to 50 stations.
  Some stations are close (less than 50km).  Others are interstate - so
  1000 to 1500km.  Many stations are only 100W.

  Others (eg WLM at Williamtown) service a commercial airport and RAAF
  base.
  Williamtown is on air continually - (about 362 or 363 kHz)

  The BFO (in the Nav sets) make finding a station easier.
  I use the BFO to find the carrier, then I listen for the call (in
  MCW).

  Great report!

   73 de Les
   vk2bcu at operamail.com

On Thu, Apr 28, 2016, at 09:16, john rose wrote:
> I am a member of a radio club that will retreat to a cabin deep in the
> woods of a state park for 2 or 3 weekends during the DX season. Computers
> forbidden!! Until one long time member brought his Perseus SDR and 
> computer, an active antenna about 6 inches long (which he threw into a
> pine tree next to the cabin) and started listening. To top it all off, he
> recorded 5 minutes of the NDB band and promised to report what he heard
> later. It took about 6 months. Using electronic filters as narrow as 1 Hz
> (yes, one Hertz) he had pulled out over 500 beacons.
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: ARC5 <arc5-bounces at mailman.qth.net> on behalf of Kenneth G. Gordon
> <kgordon2006 at frontier.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2016 1:11 PM
> To: Arc5 at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [ARC5] Non Directional Beacons
> 
> 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 Carribean somewhere.
> 
> NDB DX-ing is fun.
> 
> Ken W7EKB
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