Shortwave Utility Stations

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Utility stations presumably serve a useful purpose, for example communication between ship and shore. Many of them only have scheduled broadcasts for a few minutes a day, making them interesting DX targets.

Contents 1 Marine 2 Military 3 Aeronautical 4 Beacons 5 Remote Control and Data 6 Research and scientific 7 Strange and esoteric transmissions 8 External links

Marine

• Northern Canada Coast Guard
• Maritime Weather Transmissions
• Maritime Fax Transmissions
• RTTY maritime weather transmissions

Military

• The Buzzer (UVB-76)
• Letter beacon (MX)
• OTHR
• STANAG-4285

Aeronautical

• FAA Flight Control/SELCALL
• New York Radio
• MWARA
• NASA

Beacons

• Radio beacon
• Radio propagation beacon
• Fishnet beacon
• HiFER
• JG2XA
• High Frequency Beacon

Remote Control and Data

• Remote Control

Research and scientific

• Ionosonde
• HAARP
• Standard frequency and time signals
• Time Stations

Strange and esoteric transmissions

• XM

External links

• Utility DXers Forum
• UTDX-Forum (German)