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 Return to top of page · Post #: 1 · Written at 1:40:59 PM on 7 August 2012.
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 Sue
 Location: Daylesford, VIC
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Can anyone direct me to a list of longwave beacons in Australia? There used to be one in WA that lurked at the bottom end of the MW band, and I'm trying to remember its callsign.
 
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 GTC
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A search of the ACMA database by frequency range may help. You can limit postcode range to WA if desired. Click on client name to see callsign(s).

http://web.acma.gov.au/pls/radcom/assignment_range.range_search
 
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 Marcc
 Location: Wangaratta, VIC
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You may need to look within Air navigation, "NDB's". These are Longwave.

Marc
 
 Return to top of page · Post #: 4 · Written at 9:24:45 PM on 9 August 2012.
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 Sue
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Thanks, solved that one. Perth Airport, 272kHz, "di-da-da-dit, di-di-di-dit". I must have been hearing the second harmonic on 544kHz; I could only hear it on my very cheap Hong Kong pocket radio. It wasn't audible on any other of our sets.
 
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