 These NDBs are mostly used for
aeronautical / maritime navigation and for sure you will have at least one
of them near your town. NDBs usually
work with very low HF power at about 50-250W and are designed to be heard
at maximum 100km. They transmit a slow morse ID, consisting of one, two or
three letters. Even if you are not familiar with morse code you should have
no problem to identify them, because the ID is transmitted
endlessly.
What makes NDBs so interesting is , that there are
so many of them still active and at night you can usually hear stations which
are thousands of kilometers or more away from your
location. Depending on the daily changing
conditions you can expect to be surprised nearly every night.
The picture to the right shows one of our Duesseldorf
NDBs, DY which is transmitting on 284.5 KHz
If you want to learn more about these NDBs
I recommend visiting Alan Gale's Beacon
Pages, the most comprehensive source for this kind of dx-ing.
Please follow this link to
Alan's Beaconworld Pages
:
http://www.alan.gale.clara.co.uk/index.htm
Logs from my home QTH
Logs from DX-pedition to Denmark in December 2001
Logs from DX-pedition to Denmark
in February 2002
Sound samples from NDBs sorted by
call sign
A small collection of Beacon photos
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