VK7ZL in Southern Tasmania

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Non Directional Beacon & Navtex Logging
WSPR & QRSS


Todate I have logged 281 non directional beacons across Australia, New Guinea, Indonesia, New Zealand and the Pacific Ocean.
The most distant beacons logged are Pago Pago on the island of American Samoa at 5115Km, Hasanuddin, South Selawesi, 4990Km and Bandung, Java, a distance of 5541Km.
The map below shows the location of the beacons. (Icons in yellow are for my reference - not yet logged)

Download my latest detailed Google Earth map.    20th Feb. 2012


23 Navtex stations logged on 518Khz
including Bahrain, 12480Km and Point Reyes, USA, 12780Km
The receiving equipment consists of an active antenna designed by PA0RDT mounted 12M above ground, an Icom R-75 communications receiver,
and a Timewave DSP-599zx digital noise filter.
Spectrum Lab display software by Wolf, DL4YHF and logging program WWSU by Alex, VE3GOP for NDB's and YaND V5.6 by Dirk Claessens for Navtex.



WSPR
Image showing typical WSPR reception on the 30M band using an Inverted V dipole.
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