[ARC5] Radio Beacon DXing

[Mike Morrow]

Have you entered the navaid ID into this lookup system to verify your findings?

  http://www.airnav.com/navaids/

NDBs were far more numerous and interesting 50 years ago, when weather and airport information was often broadcast in voice on the frequency.  In the mid-1960s I used a BC-453-A receiver for that sometimes, but that receiver was far more entertaining listening to merchant marine Morse coast and ship stations from 410 to 510 kHz.  That's all been long gone for more than two decades now, so I seldom tune that range of frequencies now.

Mike/ KK5F

-----Original Message-----
>From: Roy Morgan <k1lky68 at gmail.com>
>Sent: Feb 15, 2020 9:51 AM
>To: ARC-5 List <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
>Cc: Steve Fick <n3te at arrl.net>
>Subject: [ARC5] Radio Beacon DXing
>
>I recently tuned the aviation radio beacon band and heard about 10 beacons. All were in British  Columbia as I learned from:
>http://www.dxinfocentre.com/ndb.htm
>
>-I'm in western Mass and wonder if that was unusual propagation. 
>
>-The antenna was a makeshift center fed flat top with water pipe ground. I do have a homemade loop I can do more work on, hoping it will pick up less noise.
>
>? Is such propagation common for beacons ?
>? What antennas do others of you use ?