"SR" wrote in message
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Brad I am in Queens New York. Sometimes I like to find beacons when
nothing else is on the band.

Within my 10-20 or so radius area their are two big air port and not far
from the Atlantic. I noice that on the upper part of the medium band I
sometimes pick up a CW beacon. I belive it's a beacon because it repeats
it's self in perfect timming. I had not yet decoded the message yet.

Now, MFJ sell an interesting device, it's looks like a black flat box with
numbers and red lights on them. The device is suppose to read all beacons
nation wide.

Do you know anything about that? And how does this work? And is WWV that
voice that gives the UTC on 10000.0 MHZ?

73 SR!

The Lady on 10MHz is in Hawaii (WWVH), the Man is Ft Collins (WWV). I think
the calls are correct. Mostly I hear WWVH and JJY (Japan). Listen around the
1/4 hour marks for an ident. I can hear both WWV's tonight. 30m is open to
the USA. Unfortunately it is also being jammed by a bunch of Asian pirates
yakking on the same frequency.

The morse code ident on the aircraft beacons is slow enough for you to
decipher it one character at a time. You can then go to airnav.com and enter
the callsign into their search engine and it should come up with some place
local to you.

Take Flushing for an example, they even spell out the Morse for you:

NDB name Hdg/Dist Freq Var ID
BRIDGE 022/12.9 414 12W OGY --- --. -.--
PATERSON 137/17.6 347 12W PNJ .--. -. .---
BABYLON 301/21.4 275 14W BBN -... -... -.
CHATHAM 096/27.2 254 11W CAT -.-. .- -



On a nice quiet winters night I was testing an aircraft ADF and trying to
point to a station about 100km south. The needle was flicking back and forth
between south and north. When I decoded the mixture of callsigns, instead of
SLS (shelleys) I came up with LRE (Longreach.)

Longreach is in northern Queensland and about 1800km away. Now that's not
bad DX with a ferrite antenna at 12" off the ground!

I'm not familiar with the MFJ device. Is it a CW Code Reader of some sort?

By the way, the beacon at the top of the MW band is more likely to be a
Marine beacon. I have no experience with them, but Google is your friend.
There are some Marine beacons at VLF, but most are aircraft.

Let's see, it must be 12 years since I was last in Queens. Wow, time sure
flies.

Brad.