[KYHAM] Morse on AM broadcast band

[Steve Lewis N8TFD]

Here's one possibility:

http://www.airnav.com/cgi-bin/navaid-info?type=NDB&id=FEU

According to the site, there's no nav-aid called FEO.

-73- de N8TFD/Steve
Cincinnati, OH (within a mile or two of MDE)

Joe A. Taylor wrote:

> A typical HF beam for 530kHz would be a monster
> but a directional MW antenna does not have to
> be large at all.   For years I've built MW loops ants
> which tune sharply and cost almost nothing.  You've
> seen these sold as  SUPERTENNAS in various mail
> order mailings and often claim to be used in Alaska
> on the North Slope to receive lower 48 stations.
> They work well     but many may not know that
> moving a second tuned loop  away from your
> receiver in the direction of an offending station
> will, at some 5 - 10 feet away virtually kill that
> station leaving the one you want to hear clear.
> It's amazing to play with.
> 
> I have to wonder if the Morse signal were from
> an airport - the F might be Fayette rather than
> Frankfort... Lexington is in Fayette county, KY.
> In my area 150 miles SW of Lexington our little
> airport at Glasgow sends BVQ   the  BV is for
> a little creek that runs near the airport and is
> called Beaver Creek..  the  Q  is a mystery and
> the signal is on 262 kHz.  I bet I can find it on
> the MW radio -probably in the neighborhood
> of 525 if I'm in close proximity of the airport
> transmitter.
> 
> 
> 
>>> Joe <<   n4nas1 at hotmail.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> From: Dave <wa4qal at ix.netcom.com>
>> To: Leonard Burton <leonardburton at gmail.com>
>> CC: kyham at mailman.qth.net, BARS at lsv.uky.edu
>> Subject: Re: [KYHAM] Morse on AM broadcast band
>> Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2005 00:33:49 -0500
>>
>> Leonard Burton wrote:
>>
>>> Greetings,
>>>
>>> I hope everyone is well.
>>>
>>> I have a friend that called me this morning and played 530 AM and it
>>> was sending "FEO" repeatedly.  He is in Lexington and said that he had
>>> his antenna pointed toward Frankfort.
>>>
>>> Does anyone know why this what this means?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks and 73s,
>>>
>>
>> Well, firstly, I'd like to know anyone who has a rotatable directional 
>> antenna
>> for 530 KHz; that thing would be beyond huge!
>>
>> I did a quick search of the FCC's AM broadcast station database
>>
>> http://www.fcc.gov/mb/audio/amq.html
>>
>> and there are no AM broadcast stations in the United States licensed for
>> 530 KHz.  While there are a couple of Canadian stations, these are fairly
>> low power stations quite a distance away from Lexington, and are unlikely
>> to have been heard during the daytime.
>>
>> Given that, then it's very possible that what your friend heard was a 
>> person
>> operating under Part 15 of the FCC rules:
>>
>> http://home.att.net/~weatheradio/part15.htm
>>
>> Note that a LOT of these stations aren't listed in this database (nor, 
>> for that
>> matter, anywhere).  It used to be pretty easy to get a "wireless 
>> broadcaster"
>> which would allow anyone to radiate a Part 15 signal on the AM broadcast
>> band.
>>
>> Dave
>> WA4QAL
>>
>>
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