[ARC5] NDB's

[Mark K3MSB]

Yup.  Whilst flying over West Texas, I used AM BC Stations as cross fixes
many times.....

Mark K3MSB

On Fri, Dec 5, 2025 at 8:29 AM MARK DORNEY via ARC5 <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
wrote:

> Just about any commercial AM broadcast radio station can be used as an NDB
> if you know the location of the station antenna. Not as nostalgic as
> dedicated navigational beacons, but a radio compass doesn’t care. Just
> saying.
>
> Mark D.
> WW2RDO
>
> “In matters of style, float with the current. In matters of Principle,
> stand like a rock. “.   -   Thomas Jefferson
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Dec 4, 2025, at 10:42 PM, Jacques Fortin <jacques.f at videotron.ca>
> wrote:
>
> LW stations still in use in Europe are:
> France: France Inter on 162 kHz and the time signal ALS162 from Allouis.
> Germany: Deutschlandfunk on 153 kHz and 207 kHz, and Europe 1 on 183 kHz.
> Luxembourg: RTL on 234 kHz from Beidweiler.
> Monaco: Radio Monte Carlo on 216 kHz from Roumoules.
> Poland: Polskie Radio Program 1 on 225 kHz from Solec Kujawski and Polskie
> Radio Parlament/Program 1 on 198 kHz from Raszyn.
> Russia: Radio Rossii on 171 kHz and 261 kHz, along with Radio 1 on 234 kHz.
> Romania: Radio Antena Satelor (Radio Romania) on 153 kHz from Brașov.
> United Kingdom: BBC Radio 4 on 198 kHz from Droitwich, and other
> supplementary transmitters.
>
> 73, Jacques, VE2JFE in Montreal
>
> We used to have an NDB at the local airport, COI, located about a mile
> from my house. Was useful for testing radios but it is gone now.
> In my collection of "junque" I have a Blaupunct AM car radio that came out
> of a VW Superbug that had been imported from Germany. It has two bands, one
> the usual BCB and an LW band, about 150 KHZ to 290 KHZ, curiously enough
> labeled "1.5 to 2.9" I assume there are broadcast LW stations still in use
> in Europe?
> Wayne
> WB5WSV
>
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