[ARC5] Radio Beacon DXing

[Bart Lee]

Re BC etc. Beacons,

     I recommend the LongWave Club of America and its LowDown newsletter:

Longwave Home Page  www.lwca.net
Longwave Club of America Home Page, the prime source of information on
radio below 500 kilohertz, including beacons, time signals, amateur radio
and more; ...

     A log of 24/XII/19 follows (QTH East of San Francisco; time
O'Dark:30).  Note Canadian beacons run at 400 watts and the ID sideband is
almost always 400 Hz (+-) above the carrier.  I tune them, on the WiNRADiO
G33 SDR and vertical antennas paired,  by getting the lowest frequency
beacon and just clicking up One KHz through the band. For me, East Coast
beacons are rare, but Western Canadians frequent.

For the LowDown, LWCA c/o Kevin Carey

Beacon loggings at K6VK (Bart Lee = BL), San Francisco, California

E:  bart.lee.K6VK at gmail.com

Receiver: WinRadio G33, paired vertical 43’ antennas

Date of Reception: 24 XII (Dec) 2019 (after trying for SAQ)

KHz ID Location Date/Time UTC 12/24 0900+

200 UAB ANAHIM LAKE BC

223 YKA KAMLOOPS BC

236 YZA ASHCROFT BC

244 TH THOMPSO MB

248 QL LETHBRIDGE AB

250 FO FLIN FLON MB

251 YCD NANAIMO BC

257 LW KELOWNA BC

272 XS PRINCE GEORGE BC

290 YYF PENTICON BC

312 UNT PENTICON BC

343 YZH SLAVE LAKE AB

350 NY ENDERBY BC

359 YQZ QUESNEL BC

359 YAZ TOFINA BC

368 YP SANDSPIT BC

374 EX KELONA BC

389 YWB KELONA BC

395 YL YNN LAKE MB

400 QQ COMOX BC

406 YLJ MEADOW LAKE SK

408 MW MOSES LAKE WA-US

{END OF BEACON LOG}

== ==

73 de Bart, K6VK ##
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On Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 1:01 PM Bill Stewart <cwopr at embarqmail.com> wrote:

> Yep, the same ID can be used on several diff. freqs/and locations. The LE
> I
> refered to went way back and I see on the RNA data base, it was decom. in
> 2015. I have logged several with the same ID, but far diff. locations. The
> RNA data base gives several ways to identify a beacon....lsb/usb off-set
> freqs.,
> timing, published carrier freq and sometimes notes about the keying such as
> mis-keying the ID, etc. The Canadian beacons have a dash-after-id (DAID).
> If Roy heard the DAID, then it would be in Canada. The RNA is the best data
> base for these beacons. Info is generally fresh from listeners logs.
> 73 de Bill K4JYS
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Morrow" <kk5f at earthlink.net>
> Cc: "arc5" <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>, "Roy Morgan" <k1lky68 at gmail.com>
> Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2020 1:30:08 PM
> Subject: Re: [ARC5] Radio Beacon DXing
>
> "LE" is a great example for potential NDB DXing errors.  NDB LE is heard
> on 350 kHz in NC, 242 kHz in KY, and 240 kHz in ME, as shown by entry of
> "LE" here:
>
>    http://www.airnav.com/navaids/
>
> NDB IDs are NOT unique.  It is very very unlikely the what Roy heard was
> in BC Canada.  Usually multiple NBDs using the same ID are on different
> frequencies, but AFAIK not even that is quaranteed when great distances
> separate the NDBs.
>
> Mike / KK5F
>
> -----Original Message-----
> >From: Bill Stewart <cwopr at embarqmail.com>
> >Sent: Feb 15, 2020 11:33 AM
> >To: Mike Morrow <kk5f at arrl.net>
> >Cc: Roy Morgan <k1lky68 at gmail.com>, arc5 <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>, Steve
> Fick <n3te at arrl.net>
> >Subject: Re: [ARC5] Radio Beacon DXing
> >
> >Mike, a lot of the NDBs are being decommissioned or just left to die,
> with out
> >maint. I think there is a trend to go to some type of GPS...not sure how
> >that works. I also did some listening back in the '60s and used a BC-1206,
> >which I still have, but haven't turned it on in many years. The airport at
> >Raleigh-Durham had a NDB....think it might have been LE, that broadcasted
> the
> >WX. Don't think any do that any more. Plus I remember flying as a
> passenger in
> >a sgl eng. jobby around eastern NC a few times, we tuned in a NDB and
> followed
> >the beam to the airport. Looks like a simple and workable system to
> me....why the
> >change?
> >73 de Bill K4JYS
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Mike Morrow" <kk5f at earthlink.net>
> >To: "Roy Morgan" <k1lky68 at gmail.com>, "arc5" <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
> >Cc: "Steve Fick" <n3te at arrl.net>
> >Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2020 12:21:14 PM
> >Subject: Re: [ARC5] Radio Beacon DXing
> >
> >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
> >>-The antenna was
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