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Loggings => Longwave Loggings => Topic started by: Chanter on December 30, 2012, 0813 UTC
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Thought I'd start a thread for these, as I rather spammed another longwave thread with my list of catches. Oops! Sorry folks.
This's going to start out with another list of catches, as tonight has been ridiculous for NDB's! I've literally caught eight new ones in the space of an hour, all but one of them Canadian. I've got Ontarian and Quebecois beacons all over the place, and I love it! :) Here's what I've snagged tonight. Just tonight, mind; I might stick my full list in here later.
371, 0716Z - GW, Jarpik - Kuujjuarapik, Quebec
400, 0718Z - CI, Koloe - Sault Saint Marie, Michigan
401, 0738Z - YPO, Peawanuck, Ontario
223, 0740Z - YYW, Armstrong, Ontario
219, 0741Z - YMG, Manitouwadge, Ontario
276, 0754Z - YEL, Elliot Lake, Ontario
233, 0755Z - QN, Nakina, Ontario
205, 0756Z - XZ, Wawa, Ontario
That's literally almost a third of the number of catches I've made since I started messing with LW in late April. In one night. *boggled but thrilled* :)
Edited to add: Whoops, make that nine! Here's one more, snagged just before I gave in, crashed and went to bed.
218, 0819Z - RL, Red Lake, Ontario
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Thanks you! Ill keep this as a reference.
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Chanter - I was about to ask if you've ever heard my local beacon "MK" on 219 Khz, but sadly it's silent. I don't know when it went off the air, but this was a surprise to me when I just checked for it. "MK" is interesting since the transmitter and antenna are located on an open parcel in an upscale subdivision. Surely the people in the neighboring homes have probably considered the thing an eyesore for years and probably had no idea what was going on there. I bet it won't be long and I'll see a new house on that empty lot...
Sometimes you find these beacon transmitters in the damdest locations!
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Awwww, that's a real shame about MK! :( I've never managed much below 250 until tonight; not sure what was up with conditions, but I'm not objecting.
My local is MS, 'Monah' in Madison, WI. She's (with a name like Monah, you sort of have to call it a she) on 400. Ever heard her?
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I fully intended to go to bed after chattering in the #pirateradio chat, but I couldn't resist one last trawl of the LW band. As Lightkeeper and several others can tell you, I've been hunting NDB's all night. As a result of this last one, I broke my record for one night! Conditions have been nutty here again, and I've been getting signals from all over the mid south as well as Canada. And hey Lightkeeper, guess what? That last trawl of the band netted me Winnipeg! It wasn't impossible to hear after all! I just had to catch it on a fade-up. She was gone a minute later. Lucky me!
Here's the lot:
375, 0523Z - DW, Owaso - Tulsa, Oklahoma
258, 0538Z - ZSJ, Sandy Lake, Ontario
247, 0545Z - YLH, Lansdowne House, Ontario
392, 0602Z - CVX, Charlevoix, Michigan
266, 0613Z - YFH, Fort Hope, Ontario
257, 0615Z - YXR, Earlton, Ontario
251, 0636Z - JZY, Macomb, Illinois
370, 0707Z - OUN, Norman, Oklahoma
371, 0716Z - PUR, Tweb - Marshall, Missouri
248, 0750Z - WG, Winnipeg, Manitoba
I maintain that the JZY beacon should be nicknamed Jazzy, because it's just that obvious. And why PUR is Tweb and not Kitty, I don't know. :)
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ND Beacons - Logged from Central Montana
WinRAdio Excalibur - RF Systems 20 meter MK2 w/ mag balun - Level SE to NW 14' above ground
1/4/2013
9:23 utc 200 khz UAB Anahim Lake BC CAN
9:30 utc 204 khz ZQR Regina SK CAN
9:33 utc 205 khz XL Wawa ON CAN
9:35 utc 207 khz YNE Norway House MB CAN
9:42 utc 208 khz YSK Sanikiluaq NU CAN
9:44 utc 209 khz IB Atikokan ON CAN
9:49 utc 211 khz HDG Gooding - Steelhead ID USA
9:56 utc 212 khz BY Beechy SK CAN
10:00 utc 214 khz LU Abbots Ford - Cultus Lake BC CAN
10:11 utc 218 khz RL Red Lake ON CAN
10:18 utc 221 khz QU Grande Prairie AB CAN
10:29 utc 223 khz YKA Kamloops BC CAN
10:33 utc 227 khz CG Castlegar BC CAN
10:38 utc 230 khz BI Bismark ND USA
10:42 utc 230 khz YD Smithers BC CAN
10:46 utc 233 khz BR Brandon MB CAN
10:49 utc 236 khz FOR Forsyth MT USA
10:56 utc 242 khz HWQ Harlowton MT USA
10:59 utc 242 khz XC Cranbrook BC CAN
11:03 utc 244 khz IH Thompson MB CAN
11:05 utc 245 khz HE Hope BC CAN
11:24 utc 245 khz FS Sioux Falls SD USA
11:30 utc 248 khz WG Winnipeg MB CAN
11:32 utc 250 khz FO Flin Flon MB CAN
11:36 utc 251 khz YCD Nanaimo - Cedar BC CAN
11:44 utc 258 khz ZSJ Sandy Lake ON CAN
11:52 utc 266 khz XD Edmonton AB CAN
11:55 utc 269 khz CII Choteau MT USA
11:58 utc 272 khz XS Prince George BC CAN
12:03 utc 284 khz QD The Pas MB CAN
12:09 utc 290 khz QR Regina SK CAN
12:11 utc 299 khz TV Turner Valley AB CAN
12:14 utc 302 khz QW North Battleford SK CAN
12:18 utc 305 khz YQ Churchill MB CAN
12:21 utc 311 khz 9Y Pincher Creek AB CAN
12:24 utc 317 khz VC LaRonge SK CAN
12:27 utc 320 khz YQF Red Deer - Penhold AB CAN
12:30 utc 326 khz DC Princeton BC CAN
12:33 utc 329 khz YEK Eskimo Point NU CAN
12:36 utc 329 khz TAD Trinidad CO USA
12:39 utc 332 khz XH Medicine Hat AB CAN
12:42 utc 335 khz CVP Helena MT USA
12-22-12 338 khz PBT Red Bluff - Proberta CA USA
12:45 utc 338 khz ZU Whitecourt AB CAN
12:47 utc 339 khz MKR Glasgow - Milk River MT USA
12:54 utc 343 khz YZH Slave Lake AB CAN
12-22-12 344 khz BKU Baker MT USA
11-10-12 347 khz SBX Shelby MT USA
12-22-12 350 khz RG Oklahoma City OK USA
12-22-12 350 khz NY Enderby BC CAN
12-22-12 357 khz ZW Kelowna BC CAN
12-22-12 359 khz YQZ Ovesnel BC CAN
11-10-12 368 khz SX Cranbrook - Skookumchuck BC CAN
11-10-12 371 khz ITU Great Falls/Truly MT USA
11-10-12 521 khz INE Missoula MT USA (400 watts!)
I have finally cleaned up most of the electrical - "noise" I have been dealing with at home since I set up this Win Radio. To celebrate I
started down at 200 khz and managed to work my way up to 343 khz before my eyes gave out. I also added a few other LW loggings I made
before I got the "noise" cleaned up. It is amazing how far these beacons travel considering many are rather low wattage. ~25 watts or so.
I had to look up Sanikiluaq and Eskimo Point on a map - And I thought I lived in the "Middle of Nowhere"!
This was FUN! - Why would I say that in a public place like HFU? - Because you would not likely be reading this unless you understood. ;D
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"521 khz INE Missoula MT USA (400 watts!)"
NAVAID linformation lists this NDB as KONNA [~16 NM NW of MSO]
At 400w well heard here even on a AM/FM clock radio after sundown
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Wow, Rockpicker, I'm super impressed at all those catches and varied locations! If you're getting Ontarians and Manitobans and you're out west, you must have quite the good setup.
I only made one catch last night before giving up. I'm an hour north of my normal QTH, and thus out of QRM central, but there was still electrical interference I couldn't place. I think somebody in the house left an appliance on. Anyway.
413, 0526Z - YHD, Dryden, Ontario
I keep trying for Sask, no luck yet.
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I haven't heard INE for two years now. It heralds the NDB season at my QTH.
Good to know it isn't QRT!
Peace!
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what do you all use for receiving antenna for those LW beacons? I can barely get anything below 530khz in a very noisy environment in a multi unit dwelling. Right now I am using a coax as antenna- it goes up to the flat roof past the 5th floor here and I have no idea what's on the other end of it- probably just bare from an old satellite dish set up. Here's the deal- I have TWO coax coming in from the roof to my unit. Tomorrow our satellite guy installs our system on the roof- and I'll have access to the end of that coax! It's gonna be quick in dirty, can't have any elaborate or time consuming stuff or anything that will draw "questions" if you know what I mean wink wink from nosy snobby HOA people. I'll put down about 70' of 14g wire just lying on the ground there neatly out of the way.
I'd love to be able to receive some LW some day.. hope my stealth idea helps with that I'll find out tomorrow God willing
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I use a balanced loop.
A regular antenna is useless at anything but picking up QRM on those frequencies unless you're in a verrrrry quiet location or use serious DSP.
Peace!
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INE-521 seemed to disappear for a while and then 'poof!' it was there. Started showing up at my QTH sometime in October.
@ kmorgan, re: antennas: you could wire up a loop antenna that will tune longwave. My old 4 ft. spiral loop tuned into the longwaves (I had wound more wire on it than needed).
Making a loop should be easy enough. All you need is a plastic crate for a frame, an AM radio tuner capacitor and maybe 30 or more turns of wire (24 seems to cover the MW band well, so I'm guessing 30 or more would cover the longwaves.
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Off topic, but could one of the mods move this thread to the LW subforum? Now that there is one, why not? :)
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Off topic, but could one of the mods move this thread to the LW subforum? Now that there is one, why not? :)
Done :-)
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While I am in an ideal (vvvery quiet) and very rural location I still spent about 6 weeks ferreting out various household sources of RFI.
There are several threads here at HFU that offer excellent advice on this subject and I read them all. My sincere Thanks to All.
Anyway here is a sample of results:
NDB Paradise!