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Offline R4002

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Re: Take Off to the Great White North
« Reply #60 on: May 17, 2019, 1823 UTC »
Quote from: pinto vortando on March 17, 2019, 2024 UTC
Log 'em while you can.
Looks like many Canadian NDBs are scheduled to be decommissioned
beginning in April and continuing in phases over the next seven years.
Log 'em while you can.

Even the more rural parts of Canada?  Are they going to decommission the entire NDB network?  I don't like the idea of relying entirely on GPS for airnav.  Good to have a backup.
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Offline Josh

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Re: Take Off to the Great White North
« Reply #61 on: May 17, 2019, 2000 UTC »
Quote from: R4002 on May 17, 2019, 1823 UTC
Quote from: pinto vortando on March 17, 2019, 2024 UTC
Log 'em while you can.
Looks like many Canadian NDBs are scheduled to be decommissioned
beginning in April and continuing in phases over the next seven years.
Log 'em while you can.

Even the more rural parts of Canada?  Are they going to decommission the entire NDB network?  I don't like the idea of relying entirely on GPS for airnav.  Good to have a backup.

Agreed, gps systems are vulnerable to attack from natural and man made vectors, so mothballing these stations would be a good idea. The sun could fart and wipe out a number of satellite systems, some bad actor could hack gps and ruin it or attack it directly - gps will be one of the first things to go in a major war. That being said, will aircraft still have mw/vlf rdf abilities in 7 years?
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Offline pinto vortando

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Re: Take Off to the Great White North
« Reply #62 on: May 17, 2019, 2138 UTC »
The decommissioning... er "modernization"... will take place in phases over the next seven years.
Not all NDBs will be shut down, about 70 will be spared the ax (including a lot of the exotic "North of 60" beacons).

Same thing happening in the U.S.  Fewer and fewer NDB approaches or approaches that even require an ADF.
Not just NDBs... looks like many VORs and marker beacons are also on the way out.
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Re: Take Off to the Great White North
« Reply #63 on: December 30, 2019, 1549 UTC »
Heard early this morning some beacons from the Great White North:

206  QI     Yarmouth      NS
212  SJ     St. John        NB
284  RT     Rankin Inlet  NU
300  YIV    Island Lake   MB
323  KR     Schefferville  QC
329  YEK   Eskimo Point  NU
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Offline Funkspiel

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Re: Take Off to the Great White North
« Reply #64 on: December 30, 2019, 2044 UTC »
Wow nice DX.  I've been trying Rankin Inlet every night but I can never hear it well enough to copy behind Old Crow  >:(.
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Re: Take Off to the Great White North
« Reply #65 on: December 30, 2019, 2206 UTC »
Quote from: Funkspiel on December 30, 2019, 2044 UTC
Wow nice DX.  I've been trying Rankin Inlet every night but I can never hear it well enough to copy behind Old Crow  >:(.

Thought you were referring to the bourbon there for a moment but then realized you meant the NDB YOC in the Yukon.   ;)
Anyway, IIRC, RT is not currently scheduled to be decommissioned and may even have its power increased so hopefully you will yet get to log it.
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Re: Take Off to the Great White North
« Reply #66 on: December 30, 2019, 2354 UTC »
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Thought you were referring to the bourbon there for a moment but then realized you meant the NDB YOC in the Yukon

Lol, I don't normally drink at the radio unless I'm on 80 meters.  ;D

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Anyway, IIRC, RT is not currently scheduled to be decommissioned and may even have its power increased so hopefully you will yet get to log it.

Tonight is my last night in the Yukon for a while. I'll be pulling an all-nighter to try and get as many of these stations as possible.
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Re: Take Off to the Great White North
« Reply #67 on: December 31, 2019, 0135 UTC »
Quote from: Funkspiel on December 30, 2019, 2044 UTC
Wow nice DX.  I've been trying Rankin Inlet every night but I can never hear it well enough to copy behind Old Crow  >:(.

I've been checking for YOC every nite but RT is always in the way :)
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Re: Take Off to the Great White North
« Reply #68 on: December 31, 2019, 0405 UTC »
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I've been checking for YOC every nite but RT is always in the way :)

Wanna trade?
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Re: Take Off to the Great White North
« Reply #69 on: January 24, 2020, 2204 UTC »
332  YFM  La Grande 4  QC
Heard @2130Z, the path was still daylight... 880 mi. 
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Re: Take Off to the Great White North
« Reply #70 on: May 10, 2020, 1439 UTC »
Propagation generally poor early this morning but a pipeline into Manitoba for some reason.

212  YGX   Gillam  MB
244  TH     Thompson  MB
248  WG    Winnipeg  MB   big signal
269  UDE   Delta  MB
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Re: Take Off to the Great White North
« Reply #71 on: May 17, 2020, 1402 UTC »
284  QD  The Pas  MB...    couldn't figure this one out at first, it is apparently miskeying as AA S. 
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Offline pinto vortando

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Re: Take Off to the Great White North
« Reply #72 on: October 17, 2020, 1307 UTC »
Not much propagation to the North this morning, the action was all out West.

212  YGX   Gillam  MB
244  TH     Thompson  MB
248  WG    Winnipeg  MB
250  FO     Flin Flon  MB
290  QR     Regina  SK
300  YIV    Island Lake  MB
317  VC     LaRonge  SK 
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Offline pinto vortando

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Re: Take Off to the Great White North
« Reply #73 on: January 14, 2022, 1404 UTC »
The decommissioning continues, coming up on phase 7 of 12, but still plenty of Canadians to be heard.
Here is a list of several beacons heard here recently all with nice signals:

206  QI    Yarmouth  NS
248  WG   Winnipeg  MB
326  FC    Fredericton  NB
332  QT   Thunder Bay  ON
332  YFM  LaGrande4  QC
340  YY    Mont-Joli  QC
346  YXL  Sioux Lookout  ON
351  YKQ  Fort Rupert  QC
360  PN    Port Menier  QC
362  SB    Sudbury  ON
371  GW   Great Whale River  QC

...so take off...log 'em before they are gone.
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