[ARC5] BC-453 On The Air

[Larry Osborne]

Thanks for the list, Joe.  What antenna are you using?  Last fall I got
just about nothing using my random wire - about 60 feet.

-oz

Larry Osborne Ph.D. (Ret.)
   No longer an authority on anything

KI7UFC +1 808.630.8176
     or via W.A.S.T.E.


On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 9:42 AM 'Joe Burchyski' via NWVRS <
nwvrs at googlegroups.com> wrote:

> Last fall I became curious about VLF transmissions after reading some of
> Hue's email posts.  I explored the frequencies below the AM broadcast band
> using my Yaesu FT840  connected to a G5RV antenna.  I was able to log more
> than a dozen navigatio becaons betweem 200 and 440 KHZ.  I identified six
> in BC Canada, including Princeton BC, aland in the US  Montaque, CA  and
> Sandpoint ID.  Closer to home I heard PND in Banks OR.
>
> 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://www.smeter.net/newport/stations/lf-nav-com.php>
>
> LF Communication & Navigation Stations Receivable in Newport, Oregon
>
> Contains a list of low-frequency communication and navigation stations
> that often can be received by the Newport...
> <https://www.smeter.net/newport/stations/lf-nav-com.php>
>
> Thaniks for opening a new door in the radio spectrum for me Hue.
>
> Joe B.
>
>
> On Sunday, February 23, 2020, 07:39:15 PM PST, Hubert Miller <
> kargo_cult at msn.com> wrote:
>
>
> 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
>
> --
>
> ---
> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
> "NWVRS" group.
> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an
> email to nwvrs+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com.
> To view this discussion on the web visit
> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nwvrs/MWHPR22MB026912BF042B1DF21334CA06E4EC0%40MWHPR22MB0269.namprd22.prod.outlook.com
> .
>
> --
>
> ---
> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
> "NWVRS" group.
> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an
> email to nwvrs+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com.
> To view this discussion on the web visit
> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nwvrs/1685140015.7479918.1582566168293%40mail.yahoo.com
> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nwvrs/1685140015.7479918.1582566168293%40mail.yahoo.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>
> .
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.qth.net/pipermail/arc5/attachments/20200225/ab64d4b7/attachment.html>