Hi all,
 
Our 155th co-ordinated listening event starts this Friday at midday.
We can expect some good conditions, comfortable listening and
opportunities to catch some nice DX.
This should be a good one for CLE 'beginners' too.
 
Days: Friday 6 April to ##Wednesday 11 April
Times: Midday - Midday, your local time
Frequencies:
NDBs from 150 - 239.9 kHz
PLUS Normal NDBs on 'half-way' frequencies (nnn.5 kHz)
 
So for all of us it is a CLE in two parts - the first part is hunting for
the NDBs whose published frequencies are lower than 240 kHz.
The second part is hunting for the NDBs whose carrier frequencies are
half-way'. E.g. 267.5 OPW, 332.5 CAM, 370.5 LB, 374.5 ANC, 381.5 SJX (in
MI), 403.5 LNL, 413.5 DLS, 514.5 LA. 'Normal' NDBs - no DGPS, please.
 
(Most Europe listeners will hear very few from part 1 while
listeners away from Europe will hear very few from part 2)
 
Please send your CLE log to the List, if possible as a plain text email and
not in an attachment, showing 'CLE155' at the start of its title. If you get
loggings from both parts you can show them together in the same list
if you wish.
Please include on EVERY line of your log:
 
# The date or day number and UTC (the day changes at 00:00 UTC).
(if your local time is being changed about now, UTC is unaffected)
# kHz - the beacon's nominal published frequency.
# The Call Ident.
 
It is important to show those main items FIRST - any other optional
details such as Location and Distance go LATER in the same line.
 
Don't forget to give your OWN location and details of your receiver and
aerial(s), etc. - others will be interested to know, especially new members
(and old members with memories like mine!).
 
Listening on the 'half-way' frequencies means that we might also catch some
interesting non-CLE beacons - do please tell us about those too, but in a
SEPARATE list. If any of them are UNIDs whose carriers seem to be on
'half-way' frequencies, include them in the main list, of course.
 
I hope to send the 'Any More Logs?' email sometime on ##Thursday evening
(perhaps quite late) so that you can check that your log has been found OK.
Do make sure that your log has arrived on the NDB List at the very latest by
08:00 UTC on ##Friday 13 April. Your loggings will be included in the
combined results, which I hope to complete on that day.
 
To help you, Seeklists have been set up in the REU/RNA/RWW Database.
Go to http://www.ndblist.info/ and click on SEEKLIST in the CLE Section.
 
Good listening
Brian

Hi all
 
Here are the combined results tables for listeners in Europe,
attached as CLE155e5.xls. Soon they will also be available
from the CLE page via http://www.ndblist.info/
 
18 Reporters
31 Radio Countries heard
80 different NDBs heard
665 reports supplied
 
Thanks to all for the reliable logs - special thanks to Stefano
and Joachim for sending logs from 'another country'!
 
Most Heard NDBs:
 
Rprts kHz C/S Location Cou.
=============================================
16 333.5 VOG Voghera ITA
 
15 359.5 CDN Chateaudun FRA
15 400.5 COD Codogno ITA
15 376.5 ORI Bergamo Orio al Serio ITA
15 374.5 ANC Ancona ITA
15 368.5 ELU Luxembourg Berg LUX
 
14 399.5 ONO Oostende BEL
14 514.5 LA Namest nad Oslavou CZE
14 413.5 DLS Berlin Tempelhof Lubars DEU
14 406.5 BOT Bottrop DEU
14 351.5 PLA Pula HRV
14 357.5 FAL Falconara Marittima ITA
14 370.5 LB Angelholm Barkakra SWE
 
Missing NDBs?
 
The following list shows NDBs with 6 or more loggings in the
similar event in November 2010, but not reported this time.
They may have been withdrawn, changed frequency or ident,
be temporarily out of service or just be inaudible due to conditions.
 
Then Now kHz C/S Cou Location
=================================================
9 0 396.5 PY ENG Plymouth City
14 0 366.5 CAR IOM Carnane
12 0 370.5 AP WLS Aberporth
 
New NDBs?
 
The following had 6 or more loggings in this event but were not
reported by anyone in the November 2010 CLE.
 
Then Now kHz C/S Cou Location
=================================================
0 13 345.5 CF CZE Caslav Chotusice
0 11 363.5 BRD ITA Brindisi
 
DX25+10 lists:
(The 25 furthest NDBs logged, plus the 10 nearest)
 
km miles from kHz C/S Location Cou.
========================================================
6567 4081 rb 216 CLB Wilmington Carolina Bch, NC USA
4366 2713 rb 214 YIO Pond Inlet, NU CAN
4089 2541 rb 220 BX Blanc Sablon, QC CAN
3554 2208 bk 372.5 KTN Kariatain SYR
3286 2042 j7 372.5 KTN Kariatain SYR
2936 1824 hw 372.5 KTN Kariatain SYR
2688 1670 j7 356.5 OU Ouargla ALG
2586 1607 my 372.5 KTN Kariatain SYR
2418 1502 bn 312.5 DB Mys Doobskiy RUS
2359 1466 hh 356.5 OU Ouargla ALG
2348 1459 rb 383.5 ARF Topel Arifiye TUR
2338 1453 hw 356.5 OU Ouargla ALG
2332 1449 j7 383.5 ARF Topel Arifiye TUR
2328 1447 bn 312.5 AT Mys Aytodorskiy UKR
2292 1424 bn 309.5 SW Mys Khersonesskiy UKR
2287 1421 rb 309.5 EYA Mys Yevpatoriyskiy UKR
2280 1417 bd 356.5 OU Ouargla ALG
2258 1403 jv 356.5 OU Ouargla ALG
2255 1401 t8 355.5 PAL Palermo SCY
2237 1390 ze 356.5 OU Ouargla ALG
2230 1386 bn 309.5 EYA Mys Yevpatoriyskiy UKR
2201 1368 bk 356.5 OU Ouargla ALG
2189 1360 me 355.5 PAL Palermo SCY
2189 1360 bn 309.5 TR Mys Tarkhankutskiy UKR
2180 1355 rb 356.5 OU Ouargla ALG
 
Nearest:
km miles from kHz C/S Location Cou.
======================================================
8 5 mr 392.5 TOP Torino Poirino ITA
19 12 hh 363.5 CT Coventry ENG
22 14 hh 383.5 LE Leicester ENG
29 18 hh 353.5 EME East Midlands ENG
49 30 hh 378.5 NN Northampton Sywell ENG
52 32 rb 399.5 ONO Oostende BEL
54 34 me 347.5 TD Teesside ENG
60 37 rb 360.5 MAK Mackel for Brussels Ntl. BEL
60 37 bk 433.5 HEN Henton ENG
63 39 rb 352.5 DD Oostende BEL
 
(If I don't have an accurate Lat./Long. for some listeners, their
distances above may be a few km in error. Also, a few NDB
locations are not known with high accuracy.)
 
11 of the 18 listeners also took part in CLE137 (Nov. 2010) when
we used the same frequency range. You will find the table comparing
statistics THEN and NOW at the end of the Excel tables.
Most of the average statistics show an improvement of around 10%.
Statistics are also shown for the other 7 listeners.
 
The Rest of the World results may be completed later today.
 
Good listening
Brian