[ARC5] BC-453 On The Air

[mhuffstutter at seanet.com]

There are a couple organisations that I belong to where Folks are Very
Serious about all matters MF, LF, VLF etc.

The Longwave Club Of America:

<https://www.lwca.net>

Their monthly newsletter, The Lowdown, includes, along with a lot more,
a monthly list of active NDB loggings. Membership with print and pdf
newsletter is a very reasonable $27, recently a pdf-only level was
added at a real bargain at $15! A great resource.

No, I am not on Commission......just been a very happy member for years.

The NDB List:

<https://www.ndblist.info>

These Folks focus on NDB logging, Worldwide. Another excellent source of
up to date, logged reception information.

Hue probably has enough surplus gear in His collection to re-install a
good LF beacon in Newport!

73
Mark  KB7WAL



>>Here is a website with a list of beacons and other VLF trransmisisons
>> heard in Newport, OR:
>
> LF Communication & Navigation Stations Receivable in Newport,
> Oregon<https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.smeter.net%2Fnewport%2Fstations%2Flf-nav-com.php&data=02%7C01%7C%7C2b0e902302ab4998948b08d7b950f8a4%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637181629719754024&sdata=Ls826kKpIZC%2BwdZzrVrFpOS3Df7Xm0j7sYdII7e4xaE%3D&reserved=0>
>
> Joe, this list is very suspect. There is NO LF beacon existing still near
> Newport, either at the airfield or at the lighthouse.
> Wiki says this about Loran C :
> "In 2010 the United States<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States>
> and Canadian<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada> systems were shut down,
> along with shared Loran-C/CHAYKA stations with Russia. "
>
> A new system, eLoran, was discussed but apparently never built.
> I was surprised the list didn't include the lower VLF stations. NLK up
> north of Seattle is still on the air, I'm pretty sure, on
> 24.7 kHz. If anyone up there has a frequency selective voltmeter, tune it
> across that frequency, and the meter pointer will peg.
> I always thought that maybe NLK's megawatt signal could be used in a
> "passive" ( crystal ) radio circuit, to provide power for
> the AM station you listen to.
>
> I have an article in the Navy electronics magazine "ELECTRON" about the
> building of NLK. When I see the photos of cars and
> trucks parked in the area, I wonder how well their electrical systems
> worked in that massive electric field, not to mention the
> electrical systems of humans. The article said there was some kind of
> metal stairway up to the top of a peak where an antenna
> was anchored. At the end of the stairway there was a gap you had to step
> across, and below this open gap there was nothing
> but the ground, and it was way, way, way down there. Made me sweat just
> thinking about that.
>
> In the 1960s and 1970s you could actually DX the low frequencies right in
> the city, with a wire antenna. Best at late night after
> the TVs were turned off. I recall when I was listening to NLK or NSS or
> NPM on the one-tube ( 6J5 ) VLF receiver I built, if my father
> was playing on the HiFi a jazz record, I could hear the jazz percussion on
> the receiver too.  The Modern Jazz Quartet's percussionist
> mixing in, providing a rhythm background for the Navy high speed Morse.
> Now, digital noise runs strong and  24 x 7.
>
> I recently found a couple "degaussing coils" I took out of an old CRT
> monitor. I was surprised when I measured the inductances
> at 3 and 7 Henry. I measured them because I had this wild thought I might
> use them with a high gain audio amp, go down to
> the beach – to get away from noise fields – at early morning to try to
> pick up the "natural radio" ELF sounds, like the "dawn
> chorus" and the other tweets and chirps and sliders. ( Popular Electronics
> said you could even hear electrical signals from
> missile launches – I don't know about that. ) But I decided  I don't
> need another project.
> -Hue
>
>
>
>
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