[MRCA] Fwd: Low Freq DX

[Mark K3MSB]

The Rock Sound NDB.....    would that have been ZGB 224 KC on Governors
Harbor (Eleuthera)?

If so, it hasn't been heard since 1997 !

73 Mark K3MSB

On Wed, Dec 3, 2025 at 7:07 PM Jeep Platt <jeepcomms at outlook.com> wrote:

> PanAm established a resort at Rock Sound way back, hence the presence,
> thereof. My last time there was in maybe 1982. Pan AM had sold the
> property.   Governor's Harbour was our destination. I miss those days...
> Nice route from PBI.
> Jeep K3HVG
>
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> *Sent:* Wednesday, December 3, 2025 6:05:07 PM
> *To:* B. Smith <smithab11 at comcast.net>; Military Radio Collectors
> Association <mrca at mailman.qth.net>
> *Subject:* [MRCA] Fwd: Low Freq DX
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> *From:* Christopher Bowne <aj1g at sbcglobal.net>
> *Date:* December 3, 2025 at 13:31:19 EST
> *To:* "B. Smith" <smithab11 at comcast.net>
> *Subject:* *Re: [MRCA] Low Freq DX*
>
> I recall that while passing through the Rock Sound Bahamas airport on
> Eleuthera  back in the 90s, while waiting in line to clear customs,
> standing next to an ancient looking NDB transmitter which was actively
> banging away its callsign, which I recall at the time was RSD.  Label plate
> on the transmitter said Property of Pan American Airways, probably was
> installed back in the 1930s when Pan Am initiated Clipper seaplane service
> to Rock Sound, one of their earliest destinations out of Miami. Apparently
> the Rock Sound NDB has gone dark, as there is no reference to it on the
> current Rock Sound Airport information online That airport’s designator is
> now MYER, some references list both MYER and RSD.  Wouldn’t be surprised if
> the transmitter is still there though!
>
> Chris AJ1G
> Stonington CT
>
> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Nov 26, 2025, at 02:49, Christopher Bowne <aj1g at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>
> DDR bangs in here with very high SNR regularly about a half mine inland
> from the ocean in  Stonington CT.  Apparently a relatively high power
> beacon, high power is noted in a number of airways navigation on line
> references.
>
>
> Chris AJ1G
>
> Sent from my iPhone
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>
> On Nov 25, 2025, at 22:23, B. Smith via MRCA <mrca at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
>
>
>  Those that are Low Freq DX hounds. NDB beacon DDP is S2 here in
> Chickenland. Freq 391 kc, Puerto Rico.
>
> Z
>
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