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Loggings => Longwave Loggings => Topic started by: jFarley on July 24, 2018, 2346 UTC
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Proof of Life logs from the Pay to Play State checking those thought to still be active.
2018-07-22 1609 218.0 AL Alpos' Alton (St Louis MO), IL, USA 363 Km
2018-07-22 1610 240.0 CJ Calde' Springfield, IL, USA 256 Km
2018-07-22 1611 251.0 JZY Macomb, IL, USA 252 Km
2018-07-22 1615 257.0 FWC Wayne County' Fairfield, IL, USA 377 Km
2018-07-22 1616 263.0 CVM Civic Memorial' Alton, IL, USA 362 Km
2018-07-22 1617 272.0 IK Kankakee, IL, USA 85 Km
2018-07-22 1617 272.0 OLY Olney' Olney-Noble, IL, USA 339 Km
2018-07-22 1618 275.0 DE Elwin' Decatur, IL, USA 236 Km
2018-07-22 1619 293.0 UI Quincy, IL, USA 344 Km
2018-07-22 1621 329.0 AAA Abraham' Lincoln, IL, USA 213 Km keys .----.- with harmonics
2018-07-24 1839 332.0 DN Julip' Danville, IL, USA 172 Km
2018-07-22 1624 350.0 CP Acore' Cahokia / St Louis, IL, USA 400 Km
2018-07-22 1625 356.0 PI Tungg' Peoria, IL, USA 186 Km
2018-07-22 1628 375.0 LQ Licol' Springfield, IL, USA 248 Km
2018-07-22 1629 379.0 UG Wauke' Waukegan (Chicago), IL, USA 82 Km
2018-07-22 1632 382.0 MW Jonny' Marion, IL, USA 443 Km
2018-07-22 1631 382.0 SP Huskk' Springfield, IL, USA 267 Km
2018-07-22 1633 385.0 JD Gooey' Belleville, IL, USA 393 Km
2018-07-22 1635 391.0 PLX Palestine' Robinson, IL, USA 308 Km
2018-07-24 0307 397.0 CIR Cairo, IL, USA 534 Km
2018-07-22 1637 400.0 SLO Salem, IL, USA 356 Km
2018-07-22 1638 407.0 CM Veals' Champaign / Urbana, IL, USA 200 Km
NDBs this report 22 New NDBs 0
Also checked for the following w/o luck:
254 BOZ Generally dependable
334 LH Has been intermittent this summer
365 SYZ Generally dependable
388 MD Status unknown
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Good list there jFarley, do you ever QSL the NDB's? I haven't done so for around 20 years now, should imagine most don't reply to cards any more.
Like some of the place names on your list too...Kankakee, Julip, Wauke, Tungg and especially Gooey, some would be native American?
Are the IL beacons varied in power or all low powered 15 watts? Not many 15 watt beacons left in Australia, majority are 100 watts.
Pity I cannot get the distance propagation wise to hear them here, best so far this season is just under 4,000km.
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I don't QSL the NDBs, although several DXers do. I used to QSL SWBC and utilities, particularly coast stations in the HF Maritime Mobile service. I miss that a lot!
Yes, there are a couple of Native American names there, typical for my state.. Many of the beacons are named after the airport they serve, or even a particular runway. Gooey? I haven't the faintest idea!
All of these NDBs are 25W AFAIK.
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The 5 letter names associated with some NDBs are intersection designators. An intersection being navigational fix. In some cases, the 5 letter name may be associated with a local point of interest or person. For example, near Detroit there are intersections PISTN ( Detroit Pistons) and HARWL (long time Detroit Tigers announcer Ernie Harwell).
In the case of 385 JD GOOEY, it is the intersection at LOM (outer marker locator) on the ILS/LOC approach for RWY 32R at Scott / Mid-America (BLV) off the 273 radial of the Centralia VORTAC ENL 115.
The actual beacon site is in a field about 3 miles S.E. of the small town of Mascoutah. Why they call it "gooey" is perhaps with regard to a regional specialty known as a gooey cake.
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Thanks pv! I wasn't aware of that.
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The HARWL intersection was once called BOSHM after Bo Schembechler. It was renamed shortly after he was fired. In September there will be an R-NAV arrival into Cleveland with intersections made up of past Cleveland Brown quarterbacks.
Update on my post. According to Wikipedia Bo retired and was not fired.
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Heard here this morning for the first time:
329 AAA Lincoln IL
Got this one last week (local PH still off the air),
332 HK Chicago IL
These guys are fairly regular in here:
382 SP Springfield IL
397 CIR Cairo IL (the "R" sounds more like "N")
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257 FWC Fairfield
375 LQ Springfield
382 SP Springfield