[ARC5] Fwd: Re: BC-453 in the SCR-274N Configuration

[MICHAEL BITTNER]

I miss hearing the Consolan station SFI, 192 kHz on my R-23/ARC-5.  When it went off the air it was like loosing an old friend. Its circular array antenna, in Petaluma CA, was clearly visible from the air and its strong steady signal was easily heard in Los Angeles.

Part of my final check ride in the Martin PBM Mariner was reorienting myself on the Corpus Christi LF 4-course range while "under the hood" after the instructor deliberately got us "lost".  Took quit a while in this lumbering monster seaplane.  Somewhere I think I still have a wallet-sized cheat sheet card for the Fade-90 maneuver that is used to orient yourself on any 4-course range.  Mike, W6MAB


> On February 25, 2023 at 7:45 AM Mike Morrow <kk5f at earthlink.net> wrote:
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> It appears that the once-useful Directional Adcock beacons disappeared in the USA more than 60 years ago.  I never heard one.
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> In 1964 I started listening to a BC-453-A that my dad W5WRR hooked up for me when I was age 12.  I fell in love with the 410 to 530 kHz range that was the MF maritime (Morse) band.  That was THE most interesting segment of the RF spectrum until it all shut down in 1999.  Up to that I usually kept a receiver bedside on the 500 kHz distress and calling frequency at night.  I miss it more than anything else on radio.
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> Mike / KK5F
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: <mstangelo at comcast.net>
> Sent: Feb 24, 2023 10:36 PM
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> The Millville NJ NDB is still in operation - RNB on 363 kHz. I picked it up tonight.
> 
> I loved listening to those NBD's on cold winter nights with my BC-453. LF was my favorite band.
> 
> Mike N2MS
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