venerdì 6 agosto 2021

28 Canadian LW beacons decommissioned in one week

https://dxinfocentre.com/ndb.htm

William Hepburn has flagged a number of beacons in red as ``To
Be Decommissioned 2021-08-12``! I pick them out: hurry up to DX them:

209 IB ON ATIKOKAN 1000 48 49 31 -91 34 39
212 BY SK Beechy 100 50 50 31 -107 27 35
214 LU BC ABBOTSFORD / CULTUS LAKE 500 49 1 16 -122 2 59
230 YMU QC Umiujaq 25 56 32 13 -76 31 23
233 QN ON NAKINA 500 50 10 48 -86 37 45
236 YHK NU GJOA HAVEN 1000 68 37 34 -95 51 32
236 YZA BC ASHCROFT 1000 50 42 7 -121 19 13
244 TH MB THOMPSON 1000 55 47 40 -97 51 15
[the only one in N America on 244]
248 UL QC MONTREAL 1000 45 27 36 -73 50 54
248 YLA QC Aupaluk 25 59 18 11 -69 36 3
260 UFX QC Lourdes de Joliette / St. Felix de Valois 50
46 11 32 -73 25 8
266 XD AB Edmonton 32 53 38 37 -113 30 47
276 ZTH MB Thompson 80 55 49 54 -97 45 42
278 NM QC MATAGAMI 500 49 43 26 -77 44 30
289 YLQ QC LA TUQUE 500 47 24 58 -72 47 11
[the only one in N America on 289]
302 QW SK North Battleford 40 52 48 14 -108 20 7
317 VC SK LA RONGE 1000 55 5 10 -105 19 6
329 OU QC Quebec City / Ste. Foy 25 46 46 40 -71 17 23
344 ZSB ON Greater Sudbury 100 46 41 0 -80 44 58
358 NL NL St. John's / Signal Hill 50 47 34 27 -52 41 7
358 YKG QC KANGIQSUJUAQ 500 61 35 27 -71 55 43
373 YXK QC Rimouski 25 48 28 40 -68 30 11
377 YRR ON Ottawa / Greely 25 45 16 6 -75 34 25
392 ML QC LA MALBAIE / CHARLEVOIX 500 47 37 24 -70 19 28
395 YL MB LYNN LAKE 1600 56 49 51 -101 4 13
396 YPH QC INUKJUAK 500 58 28 4 -78 4 24
399 ZHD ON Dryden 25 49 48 3 -92 38 41
400 QQ BC COMOX 500 49 45 14 -124 57 29

First number after the town is watts power, then geo coordinates. If there be some significance to which ones are in CAPS or not, I don`t know what. Currently there are no other advance-of-date decomm notices (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)