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Morse-code Beacon on 530 kHz??

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Buckeyes2001

Was listening to 530 kHz just now and heard a morse code beacon on 530 underneath Cuba's Radio Enciclopedia. The morse code went as follows "dit dah dit dit dah dit dah dah dah dah dit dah" which is LYQ. Anyone know what that might be? This is the first time I've ever heard the morse code on 530.
 
Great! My farthest NDB is about 500 miles away, 335 CVP in Helena, MT. I am very poor with CW but I did copy it (I know what a U.S. CW station and a Canadian NDB sounds like). The Canadian stations have a long ~400 hz tone, followed by the CW. It's easy for me to tell as I get "XX" 344 from Abbotsford, BC most nights at 130 miles.

-crainbebo
 
I am sure that I heard LYQ before, from Ocala FL; it would interfere with my listening to Enciclopedia :)

cd
 
I haven't logged any beacons on 530. But on 520 khz., INE in Missoula, MT comes in when conditions are good for the low band, and AW in Arlington, WA used to come in (it's gone now).

My longest LW beacon catch was one in Grants Pass, Oregon, a long time ago -- around 360 miles. I don't remember the call.
 
I get that INE quite a bit on 520. Most of the time nothing comes in, but NAVTEX sometimes makes a visit on 518.

-crainbebo
 
Straight line distance from Manchester, TN to Vermilion, OH is 452 miles. I Wonder what conditions would cause such a low-powered signal to be heard at this distance, on a car radio and Tecsun-390 barefoot, no less? Same conditions that were causing WBAP to be heard in Farmville, VA (by nocomradio) very clearly?
 
crainbebo said:
I get that INE quite a bit on 520. Most of the time nothing comes in, but NAVTEX sometimes makes a visit on 518.

-crainbebo
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Does the NAVTEX sound like RTTY? I heard something that sounded like RTTY a few nights ago, interfering with a weak INE.
 
"Does the NAVTEX sound like RTTY? I heard something that sounded like RTTY a few nights ago, interfering with a weak INE."
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Yup, if you tune a mediumwave rig to just below 530 and you hear teletype (SITOR-B), that's Navtex. It's supposed to operate on lower-sideband (I think) but a lot of mediumwave rigs will demodulate it like any other AM signal.

If you have a patch cable and a sound card, you can connect the rig to the line-in port, then download a freeware Navtex reader (http://frisnit.com/cgi-bin/download.pl?file=navtex2.1.5*) and try to decode the data stream.

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* 98SE with Kernelex or NT 5; also usable under WINE. Individual results may vary.
 
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