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Loggings => Longwave Loggings => Topic started by: Looking-Glass on March 14, 2019, 1421 UTC
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Some loggings over the past week and a half heard this way:
1429z 326KHz ESP Esperance, Western Australia 2,619kms 519 report.
1425z 366KHz SF Springfield, New Zealand 2,207kms 519 report.
1403z 383KHz WLU Wiluna, Western Australia 2,973kms 529 report.
1402z 278KHz WS Westport, New Zealannd 2,081kms 519 report.
1338z 281KHz NV Navua, Viti Levu Island, Fiji 3,250kms 319 report.
1336z 268KHz FRT Forrest, Western Australia 2,191kms 519 report.
1458z 242KHz KOW Kowanyama, QLD 2,190kms 529 report.
1556z 346KHz TG Tauranga, New Zealand 2,357kms 529 report.
1531z 233KHz AYE Ayres Rock, Northern Territory 2,072kms 419 report.
1444z 383KHz WLU Wiluna, Western Australia 2,973kms 519 report.
1349z 404KHz KA Karratha, Western Australia 3,568kms 519 report.
1341z 354KHz FND La Tonouta, New Caledonia 2,033kms 319 report.
1318z 260KHz PD Port Hedland, Western Australia 3,434kms 519-529 report.
1340z 233KHz NWN Newman, Western Australia 3,189kms 519 report.
1359z 251KHz MEK Meekatharra, Western Australia 3,143kms 519 report.
1315z 322KHz CI Chatham Island, New Zealand 3,091kms 319-419 report.
1435z 272KHz TNK Tennant Creek, Northern Territory, 2,224kms 519 report.
1309z 242KHz PP Parapamaru, New Zealand 2,344kms 519 report.
1308z 386KHz LX Alexandra, New Zealand 2,099kms 529 report.
1315z 326KHz WR Whangarei, New Zealand 2,211kms 519 report.
1316z 356KHz TN Tindal, Northern Territory 2,785kms 529 report.
1311z 310KHz HK Hokitika, New Zealand 2,081kms 559 report.
1801z 386KHz BLN Busselton, Western Australia 3,213kms 319 report.
1756z 335KHz AS Alice Springs, Northern Territory, 1,995kms 529 report.
1317z 358KHz NL Newlands, New Zealand 2,316kms 529 report.
1404z 350KHz KI Kaikoura, New Zealand 2,281kms 419 report.
1311z 362KHz WK Whakatane, New Zealand 2,467kms 319 report.
1257z 254KHz AS Ashburton, New Zealand 2,196kms 529 report.
1233z 238KHz KT Kaitaia, New Zealand 2,128kms 559 report.
1435z 230KHz AP Taupo, New Zealand 2,393kms 519 report.
1237z 311KHz NTN Normanton, Queensland 1,993kms 529 report.
1837z 320KHz BRM Broome, Western Australia 3,286kms 519 report.
1420z 475KHz ?? Mystery signal sending very slow morse, T N C T C N E T, marginal copy, experimental licence frequency.
Many other Australian NDB stations under 2,000kms heard but not of interest this way.
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Nice logs! Our season here is ending, and just picking thru archived recordings for straggler logs at this point.
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That 475kc sig is right in the middle of the 630 meter ham band here in the States.
AFAIK, Aussie hams may have the same allocation.
nice report on all the NDBs :)
Are they decommissioning many beacons in your country ?
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pinto vortando: Around 150 beacons were shut down around three years ago in Australia and also New Zealand plus Papua New Guinea also closed down a large number of NDB's around the same time.
Some of the High Power 1.0 to 2.0Kw NDB's in Australia have been scaled back to lower power to cover around 30-50 nautical miles in navigation reforms during last year or so too.
Countries with a 475KHz band allocation are:
Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brasil, Canada, France, Germany, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Monaco and USA.
There may be some additional countries to add to that list, I haven't up dated it for some time now. I suspect the 475KHz CW I logged was either from Australia or New Zealand, some experimental "low power" licences have also been issued in Australia for 137KHz, there is a VK4 radio amateur currently running a small low powered beacon down there at the present.
jFarley: Thanks, seem to struggle this way to get over the 3,500kms distance, being trying for Indonesia prior and during the morning Grey Line but no luck so far. Those in northern Australia hear them better than me.