Fw: [Yaesu] Best propagation stations for worldwide hamradio use

[A10382]

Thanks to Peter for the info on HF aero
Here are some links that Peter refered to  and additional sites from my list
of browser bookmarks
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There is a good HF beacon network with stations transmitting on 20, 17, 15,
12, and 10M bands at predictable times.  I believe this is the network that
the new MFJ beacon hardware device uses.  It needs the exact time - and has
a WWV receiver (probably the 60kHz sig) built in.
http://www.ncdxf.org/beacon.htm


Those of us on the East Coast can use WWV, WWVB, and WWVH HF beacons as a
fair predictors of prop to/from the west coast and Northern Asia.  Reception
is typically not as good here as on the West and Central US, making it a
better to use as an indication of propagation of high power stations:
http://www.boulder.nist.gov/timefreq/stations/wwv.html

Lookup of aero comm and navaids (LF beacons and all VHF navigation) in the
Western Hemisphere.  Also has a great airport info database, providing all
the comm and nav frequencies by airport.  It's great if you ID a LF beacon
(aero typically less than 250W)  and want to lookup the location.  Also has
the marine/aero high power beacons (~1KW).  It is very accurate for North
America, but can lag changes in S. America by many, many, months.  In one
case a LF beacon was renamed (to a dup of another) and this contributed to
the crash of a 757 in Columbia a few years ago.
http://www.airnav.com/navaids/ - intermittent personal use OK, but must
subscribe for commercial use.

Some additional ARINC station info
http://www.northnet.org/cyberpoint1/aero.htm

Some worldwide freqs.  May duplicate some or all of the list that Peter
supplied:
http://www.ute-monitor.org/aerolist/ -

There is a fair amount of beacon info (mostly HF) on the 'SWL' list.  You
can peruse the archives, without actually subscribing, at:
http://mailman.qth.net/pipermail/swl/

73
Frank