[ARC5] BC-453 On The Air

[Hubert Miller]

I was looking at the manual for an old RDF receiver and I saw an Oregon listing for the Yaquina Head Lighthouse, 304, apparently pretty powerful,
and this is about 3 miles from me. Of course, it is gone now; probably decommed before I even moved here. I would have liked to have been 
around then, whenever it was, to see if the local paper reported the work and also to go out and see it done, maybe. 

I looked thru the LF beacons list at 
http://www.dxinfocentre.com/ndb.htm
and I see Oregon still has about six left, if I noted them all. Including Corvallis, Salem - Turner, Portland, North Bend, Ontario, Portland. All 100 
watts or less. 

One interesting point, I saw listed for Washington a beacon at Port Angeles on the kind of odd frequency, 515 kHz. 

I recall when I lived in Washington, back in the 1960s - 1980s, I could on a car radio, in winter, in the Seattle area,  hear a beacon on the low end, just
below the AM band, "OX", from British Columbia, and at the high end, 1630 kHz, "Bull Harbor Radio" also in B.C., with marine weather reports. 
-Hue Miller