[Dave Slusarczyk]

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

[rghines1]

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.

[etech]

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

[BDM]

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