Topband: Mystery 160 meter cw beacons.

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I have been trying to find information on the CW beacons I keep hearing on 
160 meters, but no one seems to know what the heck I am talking about.  Have 
searched the Internet in vain trying to see where the call letters of these 
CW beacons are located.  I am also starting to keep a table of the different 
call signs I hear on my new web page (URL http://members.aol.com/wd8dsb), and 
have included the call signs and frequencies of the mystery beacons below.  
My best guess is that they are some kind of radionavigation or radiolocation 
signals (Loran-?)

Here are some of the signals I hear, and wonder if anyone can point me in the 
right direction.

Identifier / Call Sign        Frequency (MHZ)
YL57                                  1.815
CB14                                  1.842
LT67                                  1.915
GW166                                 1.915
YK52                                  1.924


The above beacons send their identifier followed by a 2.5 second carrier, and 
it repeats this 3 times.  Then it sends the entire sequence over again every 
4 minutes (approximately).  I have heard all of these around 5am EST (and 
earlier) , and I am located near Indianapolis Indiana. 

I also hear a continuous beacon on 1.810 MHZ that sends something similar to 
VIAIT and it sounds similar to cw sent with a bug.

Thanks,
Don Kirk (wd8dsb) 
E-mail : wd8dsb@aol.com



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