Shortwave Utility Stations

From HFUnderground

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.

Aeronautical

• MF and HF aircraft bands
• FAA Flight Control/SELCALL
• New York Radio
• MWARA
• NASA

Beacons

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

Marine

• HF marine bands
• 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
• Civil Air Patrol USAF Auxiliary
• Military Communications Frequencies Bands - General Overview

Government

• COTHEN US Customer Over The Horizon Network - CBP, DEA and others use this HF SSB network
• SHARES US Government/Military/FEMA emergency/backup system (emergency management, etc)
• Operation SECURE State/federal government intrastate and interstate emergency management system

Other

• CB and 11 meters
• ITU Fixed Mobile Service Bands

Remote Control and Data

• Remote Control 26/27 MHz and 72/75 MHz bands (FCC Part 95 RC Radio Service)
• 26-28 MHz 11 meter band data link systems and pagers

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)