AM Broadcast Stations
for possible use as
160 Meter Propagation Beacons

Europe:

When longwave European broadcast stations can be heard, 160 meters may be open to Europe. http://www.angelfire.com/mb/amandx/longwave.html

KHz  Radio station           City    Country    Power

162  RADIO FRANCE INTER.    Allouis, FRANCE     2 MW

183  EUROPE 1              Felsberg, GERMANY    2 MW

189  RIKISUTVARPID       Gufuskalar, ICELAND    300 KW

198  RADIO 4 UK           Droitwich, ENGLAND    500 KW

243  Danmarks Radio      Kalundborg, DENMARK    50 kW

These are the stations we often use as a beacon to see if 160 meters is open to Europe. If you cannot hear at least one of these stations, odds are the others are not there from Europe at sunset and in the evenings.

Australia:

2310kHz is VL8A (A for Alice Springs NT)
2325kHz is VL8T (T for Tennant Creek NT).

See http://lists.contesting.com/pipermail/topband/2010-June/033190.html

Oceania and Alaska:

Guam - 567, 830, 801 KHz

American Samoa - 648 KHz


Hawaii - 620, 650, 670, 690, 760, 830, 940, 1040, 1500, 1570 KHz

Alaska - 640, 650*, 660, 670, 680, 700, 720, 750*, 780, 820, 850*, 870, 890, 970, 1020, 1080, 1110, 1140, 1170(50 kW day/21 kW night)

* = 50 kW

  Longwave Non-Directional Beacons (NDBs)

Amateur Beacons:
The ARRL Band Plan allows beacons from 1.999 to 2.000 MHz. Occasionally, we hear 1 watt, slow speed CW beacons there.

If you know of other beacon stations and would like us to add them to this page, please contact us and suggest them.

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