N8KDV wrote:

William Mutch wrote:

In article u, wcm1
@NOSPAM.cornell.edu says...
I'd previously
not been able to receive anything but a couple of local aero beacons on
longwave, nor anything but the Christian megawatt at 3200 on the 90
meter band. I didn't care much about the longwave since the very useful
aviation weather Elmira NY on 385 khz was replaced by better service on
162.40 Mhz vhf.
Last week, just for fun I made a Hi-Q parallel resonant tank for
longwave from a 385 pf variable cap and a 3.850 mh inductor. (82 turns
#24 awg wire on a 1.3" audio toroid core) This tunes 520 khz down to 170
khz with a pronounced peak. I coupled it very loosely (2 1/2 turns) to
the coax near the RCVR and was astounded at the difference in reception.
Around 0500Z I logged 15 different aero beacons at between 260 and 420
khz ! The tuned circuit didn't bring the signal levels up...it took
the noise floor DOWN !

Has anyone bookmarked the longwave site whcih gives freq's, calls
and locations? Just for curiousity I'd like to find out where some of
these beacons are.

PKA 260.9 YGK 263.4 IT (ithaca) 267.0
YQA 272.3 YPP 303.3 ZMX 317.3
CL 345.0 SB 362.2 YMW 366.4
ZQ 372.6 YB 394.4 Y8 401.3
YTA 409.2 BC 414.4 RYS 420.0

http://frodo.bruderhof.com/ka2qpg/

Scroll down for looking up US beacons.



YQA 272 Muskoka, Ontario 45 02 21N 79 16 58W
YTA 409 Pembroke, Ontario 45 48 10N 77 13 09W
YGK 263 Kingston, Ontario 44 17 48N 76 36 20W
YPP 303 Parent, Quebec 47 53 22N 74 40 19W
SB 362 Sudbury, Ontario 46 38 53N 80 55 18W
YB 394 North Bay, Ontario 46 23 04N 79 28 07W
BC 414 Baie-Comeau, Quebec 49 07 04N 68 19 34W
ZMX 317 Montreal Mirabel, Quebec
(Listed as Janvier) 45 44 29N 73 55 14W
YMW 366 Maniwaki, Quebec 46 12 27N 75 57 23W
Y8 401 Drummondville, Quebec 45 50 50N 72 23 56W

The frequencies I gave is the listed (carrier) frequency. The ones you
have listed is the Upper Sideband - which is the way to get the beacons.

Hope this helps,

Dave