Evening ,
I am finishing up the chassis restoration of my model 116. My question being--should there be any "stations" on band 5?? The freq range is 150-390Kc----well below the broadcast band. The schematic states it is a weather frequency band. Anything out there?
Thanks guys!
Dave
Still some aviation ADF radio beacons that can heard during their Morse code identification. There is only one I'm able to pick up reliably a 100 miles away.
With a good longwire antenna, I am able to receive quite a few of navigation beacons on the longwave band. But also, you can listen for dx broadcast stations on that band , if you have a good antenna. Here is some information I received from Brian (BDM) on longwave broadcasting from ITU region 1.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_wave
The propagation on this band is particularly good for dx-ing this time of year (winter) during the nighttime hours.
Ed
As Ed stated, it's a hot band at night, especially late at night. The winter months are the best with the lower noise. The lower portion is full of European & African broadcast stations. I can usually pick up Med-1 Morocco late at night very strong. Along with a few others. This is on any one of my Philco's with LW, using a 150' long wire antenna. DXing the NDB(aviation beacons) is a big past time. If you watch the NDB cluster, they are reports for beacons well over 1K miles at night. BTW, I suggest you install a good ground system for noise. This band needs all the help it can get with these old sets since they lack any serious noise filters.
LW/NDB cluster
http://dxworld.com/ndblog.html
BCB cluster
http://dxworld.com/bcblog.html