FM Bandscan – Compiled

Here is a compiled FM bandscan from my home location.  Cities listed could either be COL or XMTR location.

WX Bandscan 2013-05-24

Weather radio bandscan from my home location.

LWDX Loggings 2013-05-21

Nothing new to report except for one regional beacon that I hadn’t caught before.

LWDX Loggings 2013-05-17

A couple of new Quebec beacon loggings!  Waskaganish (formerly Fort Rupert) was one  of the Hudson Bay Company’s first outposts.  I continue to be amazed by these distances with these beacons.

Here is a YouTube video of my reception of YKQ 351kHz.

Maps of all LW NDB’s Logged as of 2013-05-10

I created a couple of maps plotting all the non-directional beacons I’ve logged thus far.

LWDX Loggings 2013-05-09

Logged a new Quebec beacon out of Matagami!!  The distance is about 595mi/960km.  Location is 49.723889, -77.741667.

MWDX Loggings 2013-05-08

The only things worthy of a mention are logging a new Cuban and also getting some splashes of CJVA for the first time in a long time (AC music, FF ads).  I was also able to grab WNJE among WBZ’s IBOC crap.

LWDX Loggings 2013-05-08

I had an exciting LW session.  I logged two new distant Quebec NDB’s that basically overpowered nearby regional beacons on the same frequency~!  BX on 220kHz from Blanc Sablon might be the farthest beacon I’ve ever logged.  It clocks in around 905mi/1455km!  It was louder than IHM which is only about 30mi/48km away.  A little bit later I snagged YFM from middle of nowhere Quebec at about 790mi/1270km.  I also logged regional PVC on 389kHz for the first time at a distance of 55mi/89km.

Here is my youtube recording of YFM 332kHz.

MWDX Loggings 2013-05-02

Snagged some new ones.  First, the local spanish religious 1150 is impossible for me to null.  The transmitter is way too close.  However the preacher had many pauses in between his words and with the radio oriented correctly, I was able to hear and ID CKOC underneath.  Also I was able to get not one but two music/nostalgia formatted stations on 1160.  Typically its all WVNJ which is in northern New Jersey.  However that station was a bit fadey this evening allowing WOBM from further down the Jersey coast to come in.  I also got and ID on a separate music signal IDing as “moon”.  That turned out to be little WABY which is halfway between Albany NH and Saratoga Springs NY.

NDB – Non-Directional Beacon BE 332kHz – Concord MA USA

Location:  42.479767, -71.388970

City:  Concord, MA USA

Freq:  332 kHz

Call:  BE

Power: <25 Watts

Associated Airport:  BED

Deep in the mosquito infested woods of historic Concord MA is a locator outer marker associated with Hanscom Airport/AFB (BED) in Bedford MA.  There are two different services emanating from the site.

First, this is the transmission site for non-directional beacon ‘BE’.  The site utilizes a flat top multi-wire T-aerial consisting of three wires strung between what looks like a pair of extra tall utility poles.  In the center of the span is a drop wire that connects to the actual transmitter located at the shack.  The station constantly sends out the letters ‘BE’ in morse code which is received by airplane pre-gps navigation equipment which uses it to calculate location.

Secondly there is an outer marker co-located at the site (see above picture).  This sends out a signal received by a plane’s ILS landing system to notify the pilot of his location on the path toward the runway.