[ARC5] NDB useful range ?

[Bob kb8tq]

Hi

Based on a lot of chasing NDB’s as a teenager, winter time at night is a very 
different setting for doing this than mid summer at high noon. The various 
flights claimed as “last” took place on the 22nd and 23rd of January 1943.
Very much winter conditions.  

I’d bet that at night, they could do a good job out to a couple hundred 
miles.  Is that the full 600 miles to Kiev or something less … who knows.

Bob

> On Feb 20, 2021, at 1:52 AM, Hubert Miller <Kargo_cult at msn.com> wrote:
> 
> How far can an aircraft in the air be from an NDB and the signal is still useful for homing?
> Reason for my particular question: was reading a little tonite in "Survivors of Stalingrad",
> Reinhold Busch, 2012. This is a collection of short accounts by German veterans of Stalingrad.
> Good winter bedtime reading, if your taste goes to grim Brothers Grimm or other scary
> stories. Anyway, on what was the last flight into Stalingrad, the pilot says he used a radio
> beacon to point the way. I was a little surprised the Germans were able to set up a radio
> beacon at emergency, extemporized airfield Gumrak. So I am wondering how far these
> LF beacons are usable. I realize transmitter power varies; I would assume this one was low
> powered.
> thanks-   Hue Miller
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