On Fri, Dec 5, 2025 at 8:29 AM MARK DORNEY via ARC5 <arc5@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

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On Dec 4, 2025, at 10:42 PM, Jacques Fortin <jacques.f@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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