Hooks field Non directional beacon...NDB. about 250 to 520 kilohertz was used
for those across the country for aircraft.. They've been slowly dismantled over
the last several years because GPS has replaced them. I used to listen to Hooks
over here quite a bit in the Beaumont area..NDBs are still used overseas but
eventually they will go away as well
Chris WB5ITTTrustee W5APXWRXZ789 GMRS
On Monday, December 8, 2025 at 07:56:33 PM CST, Cal Birdsall via BVARC
<[email protected]> wrote:
It was the Weather Bureau (as it was called at the time). It was at the upper
end of the LF band and could be heard on the low end of AM radio.
It’s around now after a few months off the air because of storm damage.
Cal Birdsall N5BR
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> On Dec 8, 2025, at 6:05 PM, Rod Neumann via BVARC <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> I have a trivia question for the Houston Oldtimers who may remember in the
> 1950s (maybe) but certainly the 1960s, if you tuned to the bottom of the AM
> broadcast band (520? 530kc?), there was a broadcast station. It was a
> continuous repeating voice loop of weather info followed by an ID. I think
> I remember it was Galveston/Houston weather data, especially tidal info. For
> decades I remembered the call ID because the repeated Morse Code
> identification got drummed in my kid brain, but now that brain cell must have
> died because I no longer remember. What was it? Coast Guard? Commercial
> Fishing? I just don't remember and it's bugging me... but I'm hoping someone
> in BVARC land remembers and can tell me so I can quit wondering.
>
> Thanks,
> ROD W5IE
>
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