[Milsurplus] Milsurplus Digest, Vol 261, Issue 49 AM stations

Wed Jan 28 09:36:05 EST 2026

Mike,

A pretty comprehensive VLF list here: 
https://sidstation.loudet.org/stations-list-en.xhtml

NAA on 24 KHz is always quite loud here in Jersey City.

TheSignal Identification Wiki 
<https://www.sigidwiki.com/wiki/Signal_Identification_Guide> can be 
quite helpful,  Has recordings of the various stations, many of which 
are pretty undecipherable.

Good DX,
AL

On 1/28/2026 5:19 AM, Mike Christie via Milsurplus wrote:
> I wonder if anyone has an updated list of stations not just NDB’s but 
> other stations on LF/MF band. I hear WWVB and some other unknow 
> stations. Someone recently told me Cutler Me is transmitting but what 
> others are out there?
> Mike
> W1ZFB
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>   1. Radios in movies (Charlie L.)
>   2. Re: AM beacons (Hubert Miller)
>   3. Re: AM beacons (Bruce MacMillan)
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> Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2026 14:14:19 -0500
> From: "Charlie L." <mjcal79 at gmail.com>
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> Subject: [Milsurplus] Radios in movies
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> Does 'Where Eagles Dare' rank as one of the most radio intense movies?
> 'Inglourious Basterds' has a radio scene briefly.  'The Ministry of
> Ungentlemanly Warfare' has a brief scene, but one a bit longer with a copy
> of a paraset.  And what was the name of that WW II movie whose storyline
> was to get a radio operator to a Japanese radio controlled mine station so
> he could transmit the signals to detonate all the mines?  The rack of 
> radio
> gear there was impressive, was that a real radio station's equipment?
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> Charlie in NC
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> Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2026 23:50:18 +0000
> From: Hubert Miller <kargo_cult at msn.com>
> To: "Milsurplus at mailman.qth.net" <Milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>
> Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] AM beacons
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> >Date: 1/27/26 10:42
> >To: Kargo_cult
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> >Hue,  when I first got my 348 working back in the early 1980s there 
> were still a bunch of those beacons on military bases. 388khz (NXX) 
> was close enough that I could hear it with a short length of wire. 
> Once I put a real antenna on it I could hear a bunch of them. BTW: my 
> 348 has an AC supply instead of >the dynamotor.
>
> I recall in the early 1960s my parents shopped at Paine Field AFB in 
> south Everett WA. This AFB field  is now a civilian operation and 
> Boeing Aviation moved into the rest. I recall in the early 1960s, 
> probably in the winter DX season, you could on a car radio at Paine 
> AFB hear beacon 'OX' from Comox, BC Canada just below the official AM 
> band lower limit. Above the band, on 1630 kHz, was 'Bull Harbor 
> Radio', an AM coastal radio station from BC Canada. You could hear it 
> in Seattle on any competent radio receiver. I am wondering right now 
> if it was a Canada coast guard station  because i don't recall hearing 
> ship , shore phone traffic. When there were still a lot of disused AM 
> boat radios around, you used to occasionally see one with a transmit 
> rock for 1630 in it, which meant the vessel traveled up to BC.
>
> I recall some Navy ship trying to set up a phone call on the still in 
> use AM medium wave channel, now disallowed for good old AM, but their 
> SSB just did not work. I think this was the limited period where there 
> was an "AM equivalent" suppressed sideband mode allowed. I also did 
> the 10:00 wx on 2522 kHz a time or two, and i suffered "mic fright", 
> altho i realize now that no one listening gave a sh at t what you sounded 
> like, IF they were even listening.
>
> About this time it seemed good ole Western Electric standards started 
> going to hell. I recall Olympia marine channel 28 VHF was out of 
> service for weeks because some tech had forgotten to close the 
> transmitter access door.
>
> I also recall some beer swilling good ole boys trying to get some 
> laffs by calling in with a semi obscene "boat name" ( right...) to 
> embarass
> a woman op. BUT the marine op that afternoon on Olympia 28 happened to 
> be one H. Miller and he just could not hear you, even if you had a 
> transmitter with VOA's power.
> Enough digression...
> -Hue Miller
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> Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2026 09:17:13 +0000
> From: Bruce MacMillan <wirelessset at hotmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] AM beacons
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> In the beginning there was the West Coast Radio Service. This
> established communications and navigation stations at lighthouses and
> other shore stations from Victoria to the Alaskan border. In 1937 it
> became the federal Dept. of Transport. 1630 was the working frequency
> for the westcoast of B.C. so would be monitored by all stations. In the
> 1960s B.C. Telephone Co. took over ship to shore on their own
> frequencies, also in the marine band. I spent many nights listening to
> the fish boats phoning home but only 1/2 of the conversation. The rest
> was beeps.
>
> Bruce? M0SOE (ex VE7)
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> On 27/01/2026 23:50, Hubert Miller wrote:
> > Above the band, on 1630 kHz, was 'Bull Harbor Radio', an AM coastal
> > radio station from BC Canada. You could hear it in Seattle on any
> > competent radio receiver. I am wondering right now if it was a Canada
> > coast guard station? because i don't recall hearing ship , shore phone
> > traffic.
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