Greetings:

Requesting reception reports on our new NDB beacon LYQ on 529 KHZ
just below the AM broadcast band.


Can you hear it??? What is your QTH???? please post reports
here!!


We tried a shunt fed tower some weeks back and gave up on it due to
poor beacon range.

We are now using a 130 feet high flat top antenna with a horizontal
run of 250 feet between two 140 feet high towers.

The flat top antenna has a Vertical wire 130 feet high connected dead
center to a cable that is suspended and insulated from the two
support towers.

This antenna is an 'traditional' NDB beacon antenna

Driving in my car with the car radio tuned to 530 khz I can hear the
beacon loud and clear for 40 miles!!

When we used the shunt fed tower tuned to a VSWR of 1.1 to 1 the
range at best was
15 miles

Using the same ground radials

we are located about 50 miles south of Nashville,TN just off of
I-24 Manchester,TN

Thanks for the reports!!!!