Jilly’s Longwave Radio DXing Page

That’s a PFC, or “prepared form card,” which I used when I was DXing LW aerobeacons. I’d send that with a SASE as a QSL when verifying beacons. A directory of LW beacon verification addresses – mostly in the SE USA – is also on this site; check the menu on the right.

Aviation Resources

• Codes Worldwide airport codes.

• FSDO Flight Standards District Office Locator Home Page

Canadian Resources

• List of Lights, Buoys, and Fog Signals. Newfoundland, Atlantic Coast, Inland Waters and Pacific Coast.

• Transport Canada Homepage in English and French.

Clubs and Discussion Groups

• LWCA. The Longwave Club of America. They publish a monthly journal relating to the longwave radio hobby.

Other Hobbyist's Pages

• Signals Received in North America. Online database.

• The VE7SL Radio Notebook. Photos of NDB's, loop antenna plans, and more.

• Alex Wiecek's LW Page. Beacon loggings and images. [archived at archive.org]

• Beacon’s A Bunch AC6V’s LW links.

• DXing.com. DXing.com’s longwave DXing page–includes info on Ken Stryker’s beacon guide.

• On The Art of NDB DXing Sheldon Remington, KH6SR

• NDB Beacon Logger. Real-time reports.

• Rock’s Ray Rocker’s Beacon Log (hey, is that his real name?)

• Tim Noonan Radio/DX Information from Wisconsin–inlcluding NDB info.

• NDB List Photo Gallery Alan Gale’s site in the UK (with list of UK NDBs).

• World Below 535 kHz. Links and photos from SV1XV.

• The Lord Howe Island NDB lots of pictures by William Tidmarsh. [web archive at archive.org]

• Long Wave Beacons in Wisconsin With freq and other helpful information.

• Using your computer to ambush unsuspecting NDBs… using Spectran.

Software

• Bearing1.zip Bearing/distance calculator.

Some Great WWW Resources

• AirNav. Search for A Longwave Beacon.

• ANARC Glossary. Glossary of radio terms from “All Wave” to “Util.”

• Altair’s Lowfer Page – Station YWK. 184.320 kHz.

• Definition of a radiobeacon.

• Frequencies. Worldwide frequency allocation table.

• How Low Can You Go? An introduction to longwave DX from the New Zealand Radio DX League.

• Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude From NOVA Online.

• Longwave Home Page. A ton of info, files, an interactive message board, etc. relating to the LW radio hobby.

• Navaid History. National Park Service page about historical maritime navigational sites–like lighthouses.

• SA. Southern Avionics’ page about navaids (they make NDBs).

• Low/Medium Freq Aero Beacon System Of The U.S. Cool page by Kriss Larson w/maps. [archived at archive.org]

• 1996 Federal Radionavigation Plan PDF file explaining govt’s plan to phase out NDBs.

• 1999 Federal Radionavigation Plan PDF file (The govt’s “navaid master plan”–produced every 2 years.) [archived at archive.org]

• 2001 Federal Radionavigation Plan links to PDF.

• 2005 Federal Radionavigation Plan PDF file.

• 2008 Federal Radionavigation Plan PDF file.

• Lighthouses, Lightships, Tenders & Other Aids to Navigation Subjects USCG.

• USCG Navigation Center Searchable.

• NATON National Aids To Navigation School.

• A history of buoys and tenders by Amy K. Marshall.

• NASA online VLF receiver Listen on the web to the INSPIRE VLF radio receiver at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL.

• AMRAD Low Frequency Web Page from the Amateur Radio Research and Development Corporation.

Recommended Reading

• Your Introduction to Morse Code
  by ARRL
  
• Navigation Rules
  by US Coast Guard
  
• International Marine Light List and Waypoint Guide (The): Maine to Texas Including the Bahamas
  by John J. Kettlewell
  
• The loran, GPS & nav/comm guide
  by Keith Connes
  
• Avionics Navigation Systems
  by Myron Kayton
  
• Electronic Navigation Systems, Third Edition
  by L. Tetley
  

Video

• DXing the longwave band – k9rzz