[AF] NDB antennas

[Glen Kippel]

On 5/22/07, Ronald J. Dot'o Sr. <ron.doto at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Back in the late '60's I was very involved with the Civil Air Patrol in
> air
> search and rescue.  One morning at first light we were climbing out of
> Berz
> Airport in my friends Beech Musketeer in which I had installed an old Lear
> 12 ADF recently on the way to a search for a downed fellow birdman.  I
> turned on the ADF and tuned to WJR.  The announcer was reading the news
> and
> stated" The CAP will be sending out search planes at first light to aid in
> the search for the downed pilot"  I turned to the PIC and said" Hey Don,
> they're talking about us!"
>
> It felt good!
>
> ------------


OK -- if y'alls wants ta pursue the NDB thang, there is some handy freeware
available called the World Wide Search Utility or WWSU6.3.  Type in the
callsign of the NDB that you are interested in and it spits out all the info
about the station.  Yes, anywhere in the world.  You can then click on a
button to have it show the distance and direction on an
azimuthal-equidistant projection map.  Another handy utility is a map
showing the current auroral oval status.