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Loggings => Longwave Loggings => Topic started by: pinto vortando on November 18, 2017, 2255 UTC
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Speaking of off the air beacons... anybody heard 400 XW Flemingsburg KY lately? It was a fairly frequent visitor to the radiobunker here but looking through my logbooks it has not been heard here since June. ???
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XW is usually audible 24 hours a day here, but I do not hear it at the moment.
I will try it again during daylight hours tomorrow.
I am hearing SLO on 400khz, but nothing else at the moment.
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1351 - still no sign of XW in daylight, SLO is still there, but very weak.
found this NOTAM:
!LOU 08/188 Fleming-Mason, Flemingsburg, KY (FGX) Navigation localizer runway 25 decommissioned Aug 17, 2017 0401Z-permanent
!LOU 08/187 Fleming-Mason, Flemingsburg, KY (FGX) Navigation FLMNG NDB decommissioned Aug 17, 2017 0401Z-permanent
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XW is usually audible 24 hours a day here, but I do not hear it at the moment.
I will try it again during daylight hours tomorrow.
I am hearing SLO on 400khz, but nothing else at the moment.
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1351 - still no sign of XW in daylight, SLO is still there, but very weak.
found this NOTAM:
!LOU 08/188 Fleming-Mason, Flemingsburg, KY (FGX) Navigation localizer runway 25 decommissioned Aug 17, 2017 0401Z-permanent
!LOU 08/187 Fleming-Mason, Flemingsburg, KY (FGX) Navigation FLMNG NDB decommissioned Aug 17, 2017 0401Z-permanent
OK, tnx, that solves that mystery.
Anyway, sad to see these NDBs go away but on the plus side, you now may be able to hear beacons that were covered by XW at your location.
For example, heard here on 400 within the past few weeks:
SLO Salem IL
CI Sault Ste. Marie MI
PPI St. Paul MN
PTD Potsdam NY
UWI Dalton GA
QQ Comox BC