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Offline Daniel Wyllyans

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1670 kHz NDB `` DRL `` , Location?
« on: January 24, 2016, 1215 UTC »
1670 kHz NDB Unidentified , You know which is ?

I found these NDBs on the internet to start work .  73 .
NDB 1670 kHz VM5AD Santos Limited, S.A., Australia.
NDB 1670 kHz TG Tauranga, New Zealand.
NDB 1689 kHz MH Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea.
21:51 UTC Day 20 January 2016

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Re: 1670 kHz NDB Unidentified , You know which is ?
« Reply #1 on: January 24, 2016, 1912 UTC »
1670 kHz Presumed NDB ``DRL `` Location NDB? ( Eric Camerato, PY2ECM - Eric )
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Re: 1670 kHz NDB DRL , Location?
« Reply #2 on: January 25, 2016, 0008 UTC »
Station is sending call-sign DRL, no idea where it is.Maybe an offshore oil rig off Brazil coast.73, Jari ( HCDX )
Thank you Jari! 73 to you
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Re: 1670 kHz NDB `` DRL `` , Location?
« Reply #3 on: March 17, 2016, 2020 UTC »
Will have a look for it over this way, if it's in or near Australia I should be able to hear it, although harmonics and splatter from MW will make it hard.  Have three days off so will make an effort to tune 1670KHz, presume you used the CW mode for reception?
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Re: 1670 kHz NDB DRL , Location?
« Reply #4 on: March 17, 2016, 2027 UTC »
Station is sending call-sign DRL, no idea where it is.Maybe an offshore oil rig off Brazil coast.73, Jari ( HCDX )
Thank you Jari! 73 to you


This has been logged to the RWW twice by a listener in Brazil.  Location is unknown, but is presumed to be a rig off the coast of Brazil.
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Re: 1670 kHz NDB `` DRL `` , Location?
« Reply #5 on: March 19, 2016, 2218 UTC »
Sorry, nothing heard across the Pacific in Australia on 1670KHz, too much crud and harmonics from MW stations, both local and DX wise, good luck with the hunt solving it... :(
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