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QSL NDB TN-373 Thorshofn

July 1, 2025 / / 0 Comments

A QSL for NDB TN-373 Thorshofn, an Icelandic beacon that I don’t hear as often as some of the ones earlier posted in this blog.
Thorshofn Airport, or properly spelled in Icelandic, Þórshöfn Airport is a small airport on the Langanes peninsula in northeast Iceland. There are flights to the bigger Akureyri airport 5 days a week by a plane that does a round trip Akureyri – Vopnafjörður – Þórshöfn – Akureyri.

ccording to Wikipedia the terminal building is only 12×9 meters as domestic flights in Iceland don’t need security checks and the 19-seat Twin Otter aircraft used does not need large terminals.

The Þórshöfn Airport control tower with the terminal wing to the right.

QSL NDB VM-375 Vestmannaeyjar

June 30, 2025 / / 0 Comments

A QSL for NDB VM Vestmannaeyjar on 375 kHz (together with two other Icelandic beacons which I will discuss in upcoming posts). VM is one of the beacons heard most often at my QTH, even during summer.

Vestmannaeyjar is an archipelago off the south coast of Iceland. It has a small airport and two longwave beacons: VM-375 and HL-345 Vestmannaeyjar/Helgafjell. You can read more about the airport in my post on the QSL for HL-345.

NDB HL and NDB VM on Vestmannaeyjar
The antenna for VM Vestmannaeyar

QSL NDB HA-348 Vopnafjörður/Hofsa

March 20, 2025 / / 0 Comments

The other beacon verified on the QSL I recently got from Isavia is NDB HA Vopnafjörður Airport. Vopnafjörður is a small village in the north east of Iceland. Its Airport has slightly over 500 movements per year. Regular flights are carried out by Norlandair to Akureyri Airport in the north of Iceland 5 times a week. From there people can connect to other airports on Iceland including Reykjavik and seasonally to a number of Airports in mainland Europe.

QSL for NDB HL Vestmannaeyjar and NBD HA Vopnafjörður

The NDB HA is located in Hof (or Hofsa), a little hamlet about 15 kilometers SW of the airport.

Vopnafjörður Airport and Terminal Building

QSL NDB HL-345 Vestmannaeyjar/Helgafjell

March 19, 2025 / / 0 Comments

Vestmannaeyjar Airport is the first airport in Iceland constructed without foreign or military assistance. It is located on the main island of the Vestmannaeyjar Archipelago (the Westman Islands). With the construction of a nearby ferry terminal at Landeyjahöfn sailing times to the mainland reduced from 3 hours to 30 minutes. This resulted in a drop in demand for scheduled flights. Today there are only government sponsored flights to Reykjavik in winter (probably because shipping and road conditions might not be optimal).

My reception of NDB HL serving this airport on 345 kHz was confirmed (together with NDB-HA which is for another post) by Hjalti Geir Guðmundsson from Isavia, the operators of the airports in Iceland

Vestmannaeyjar Airport

There is a second beacon NDB VM on 375 kHz serving the airport as well. In hindsight I should have added that one to this report as it is one of the most regular received beacons from Iceland here in The Netherlands.

QSL NDB KF-392 Keflavik

December 1, 2024 / / 4 Comments

Apologies for not posting for a while but I was busy with a) some admin stuff for the Benelux DX Club, and more importantly: b) the finalization of the documents to be sent to the potential builders of our new house… From a DX perspective I see it as an investment in a low QRM future!

But I still owed you this one: an e-QSL for NDB KF Keflavik on 392 kHz. My first QSL for an NDB on Iceland. An e-QSL but it is scanned. And as everything I post on this site has to be scanned anyway… you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference!

Keflavik is the largest airpot in Iceland. And the government tries to promote it as a transfer hub with the option to explore a bit of Iceland on your journey.

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