On Dec 27, 5:17*pm, wrote:
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i have playing around with my new sangean 505 shortwave and
had a search on the lw band and i was picking up like beeping
sounds on freq Lw 279 khz, just wondering anyone have a idea
as to wat it is?
cheers
shane
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sorry about that the location, im at ipswich near brisbane australia
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Longwave (LW) Radio and Non-Directional Beacons (NDB)

Shane,

Sounds linke you heard some sort of a Non-Directional Beacon
(NDB) on that Frequency.
NDB - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-directional_beacon
Note - Each NDB is Identified by a one, two, or Three-Letter
Morse Code Call-Sign. About the "Morse Code"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse_code

Longwave (LW) and NDB Beacon Links
http://www.jazzkeyboard.com/jill/radio/longwave.html

Longwave (LW) NDB Beacon Frequencies 260 kHz ~ 283 kHz
http://www.beaconworld.org.uk/cledata/CLE48na.pdf

The Longwave Club of America (LWCA)
http://www.lwca.org/
http://www.lwca.org/about_lwca.shtml

-INFO- Longwave (LW) DXing
http://www.dxing.com/lw.htm
http://www.dxing.com/tuning.htm

List of Longwave (LW) Radio Broadcasting Stations
and Frequencies. - http://mediumwave.de/#lw
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_Funkfeuer
http://www.indopedia.org/Longwave.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longwav...broadcasting_t...

Long Wave (LW) Radio Stations [AM&DX]
http://www.angelfire.com/mb/amandx/longwave.html

Longwave (LW) Radio Stations -List-
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip.../longwave.html
-Note- That Most of these Longwave Radio Staions are
in Europe so that Trans-Atlantic {Across-the-Ocean}
DX ~3000 Miles can be done on the East Coast of the
USA. While the West Coast of the USA is another ~3000
Miles over land and noise for these signals to travel.

More Longwave (LW) Radio Links
http://www.dxzone.com/catalog/Operating_Modes/Longwave/


and a long-wave good-bye - iane ~ RHF {pomkia}