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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
Location: Sydney, NSW
Member since 28 January 2011
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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

 
 Return to top of page · Post #: 3 · Written at 8:27:27 PM on 7 August 2012.
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Location: Wangaratta, VIC
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You may need to look within Air navigation, "NDB's". These are Longwave.

Marc

 
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Location: Daylesford, VIC
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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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