[ARC5] NDB’s

[Dennis Monticelli]

Like the thread.

I haven't DX'd the longwave beacons for over 20 years.  I used (and still
have) a BC-453B that I restored for that purpose.  Using no processing aids
and my inverted L ham antenna I logged almost 100 from CA over a couple of
winters.  It was fun.

But I will never forget one night while tuning around looking for new ones,
I heard Frank Sinatra on 279KHz.  I cursed because that was obviously a
mixing product of AM stations being produced in the receiver or some
rectifying junction on my property.  Then I noticed it had a very slow fade
of minutes duration with a peak that was surprising in strength.  When the
song ended, a male announcer came on in Russian, made some commentary, and
then introduced the next Sinatra selection while giving the song title in
English, heavily accented.  Whoa!  It took some investigation and more
listening the next night to determine it was Radio Rossii's transmitter on
the edge of the Sea of Okhotsk in Siberia.  700' antenna with something
like 1MW.  Radio Rossii shut down all but its FM service in 2014, but since
the Ukranian invasion it has reactivated selected sites.

Dennis AE6C

On Thu, Dec 4, 2025 at 1:09 PM Hubert Miller <kargo_cult at msn.com> wrote:

> I recall around 1990 A.D. there was a several day power outage in
> Woodinville WA. I had a portable Panasonic multiband radio and with only a
> few feet of antenna wire, it picked up a 1 watt ( INPUT PWR ! ) beacon on
> the 160 kHz Part 15 license -  free band, at about 50+ miles range. Not
> normally detectable. I imagine being out at sea, you would really have some
> great DX potential. I maybe should have bought a boat when i moved out here.
> -Hue Miller
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