The wonderful world of listening to the radio
Croatian Airspace is divided over 6 Regional ATC centres, part of Croatia Control. I have had some success in getting QSLs from the Regional Centres. Mr. Gadzic from the Osijek Regional centre was so kind to return a QSL for NDB CE-372 (Osijek/Cepin) and NDB OSJ-422 (Osijek Airport).
For who is interested, attached find some details about the Navaids at Osijek Airport.
UPDATE!: I have to admit that I was already hoping for this, because following an email confirmation of my Aasiaat Radio reception I also received a letter by mail. And indeed, Bo Mogensen, head of Kystradio in Greenland (operated by Tusass), was again so kind to send a physical letter as QSL NDB OZN-372 Prins Christians Sund Greenland. Wow!!! Click here for more details about the reception of the furtherst NDB I ever logged.
Thank you Bo for this service, it is so nice to get a QSL/picture of these remote locations!
Swedavia at Umea Airport sent me a confirmation having received my reception report of NDB WU-329 and VNA-364. I am afraid that I can’t actually call this one a QSL… it is more a “thank you” and polite referral to LFV “Luftfartsverket”. LFV is the organization that remotely operates 16 airports from four control centres in Sweden: ATCC Stockholm, ATCC Malmö, RTC Stockholm and Östgöta Kontrollcentral (ÖKC).
With 1566 and 1578 kilometers from my home QTH these rank pretty high in terms of distance.
A QSL for my reception of two NDB (Non Directional Beacons) servicing Ängelholm Airport in South Sweden: LB-370.5 and AH-417. The numbers indicate the frequency in kHz. These beacons are located at 698 and 696 kilometers from my home QTH.
Another QSL from a Swedish NDB received in the SQUEEZE100 event. Mr. Mikael Reinholds, Manager IT&ANS, was so kind to send me an email as QSL NDB EN-400 at Örebro Airport in Sweden. The distance to this beacon is 1019 kilometer from my home QTH.
I will provide an update should I receive the promised picture of the EN site.
Torsby is a small airport in Sweden, 1022 km from my home QTH. From here the Amapola company operates daily flights to Stockholm. Martin Berglund, Airport Manager pf Torsby Airport sent me an email QSL to confirm my reception of the local NDB TY on 384 kHz.
A friendly email from Camilla Lundell, Air Traffic Controller to QSL NDB ON-324 Norrköping Airport in Sweden. That is 1023 km from my home QTH.
Using the PskovNDB software I received so many new beacons during the SQUEEZE100 event that I did not know where to start sending QSL requests. I decided to target Lithuania, Sweden and Croatia as you can find good address information on the web.
Mr. Filip Wiberg, Chief Operations ATS Kalmar (filip.wiberg(at)acr-sweden.se), was so kind to QSL NDB KM-366 for Kalmar Öland Airport. Located on the east coast of Sweden this beacon is 894 kms from my home QTH.
There are three NDBs (Non Directional Beacons) active in Lithuania. Earlier I got a QSL for my reception of the beacon PN-407 in Palanga. During last weeks “SQUEEZE 100” event I received the other two.
Mr. Malinauskas from Oro Navigacija was so kind to send me an email as QSL for NDBs KUS-343 in Kaunas and AVN-385 in Vilnius.
Last weekend I participated in the “SQUEEZE 100” NDB event, organized by the NDBlist group. Aim was to log 100 NDBs (Non Directional Beacons) in an as small frequency range possible. Hence the name “SQUEEZE 100”.
I had participated in two earlier events this year in which I logged only 4 and 13 stations respectively. So I decided that I needed a bit of help and installed Pskov NDB software. The result was impressive. Not knowing what to expect I started monitoring between 300 and 500 kHz. After I had 100 NDBs logged I could start to zoom in a bit, trying to squeeze the frequency range.
In total I logged over 183 NDBs. Between 350 and 403 kHz I had exactly 100 NDBs, close to 2 per kHz! The picture above shows the most distant ones I heard. With 3033 km OZN from Prins Christian Sund in Greenland was on top of my list. I was also very happy to catch three beacons from Iceland (KF-392; VM-375 and HN-330) and two from Algeria (ON-415; BJA-423).
Below the Pskov screenshot of my OZN-372 log:
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