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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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

Hi Shane

You don't say what part of the world you're in, but if you;re in the US
- they don't use LW for broadcasting, although some navigational beacons
may reside there, so the beeping may be morse from one of those.

Mark

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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

Shane use url:
http://www.airnav.com/navaids/

For
Non-Directional Beacon (NDB)
a radio broadcast station in a known location, used as an aviation or marine
navigational aid.


Navaid Information enter 279
get
CQX NAUSET NDB
CHATHAM, MA

and

ON
MUSIC NDB
SPRINGFIELD, TN
All about NDB's at URL:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-directional_beacon

Lamont

sorry about that the location, im at ipswich near brisbane australia

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}