[ARC5] Radio Beacon DXing

[Bry Carling]

Hello Bill

We make a very good  point.
“Newer, bigger, better, faster, cheaper... “ always the delight of both the inventor and the circus barker.
The modern world has many of those.

Best regards - Bry Carling, AF4K





On Feb 15, 2020, at 12:33 PM, Bill Stewart <cwopr at embarqmail.com> wrote:

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

-----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 ?

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