Re: [IRCA] PAL error?

[Volodya S <canswl@xxxxxxxxx>]

Bruce, NDB are not always located right at the airport.  I know in Canada,
our CFS (Canadian Flight Supplement) lists every airport in the country,
along with all of the navigational aids, and where they are located.  VHF
VORs, are usually located some miles from the airport.  In the case of
Ust-Bolsheretzk, the only airport I could find is at coordinates 52.909271,
156.882535   That has to be an airport, but sure looks abandoned to me,
except that abandoned airports have X's across the runways.  This one does
not.  It had to be a former military airport with what looks like a lot of
dispersal areas to the south of the runway (a single runway, with a
parallel taxiway).  I'm assuming that the NDB is for this site.  Google
maps looks like there might be a tower at exactly 52.816696, 156.267171.
You can see the red/white tower, and perhaps another tower slightly to the
SE from it.  Shows up better on Bing maps (with shadows).   Good fun!
 73,...Walt

On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 12:39 AM, Bruce Portzer <bportzer@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Walt
>
> According to Worldaerodata.com it's Ust-Bolsheretsk.  The correction has
> now been made to my working copy of the PAL:)   The World Aero Data website
> gives the location as 52-49-00N 156-16-00E.  I haven't found a radio
> facility or airport near those coordinates in Google Maps, but the location
> is on the outskirts of a town labeled Ust-Bolscherezk.  Not sure if that's
> the place you found.
>
> I believe Bill Whitacre recently heard this beacon at Grayland.
>
> Bruce
>
> On 10/15/2017 16:29, Volodya S wrote:.
>
>> I recently posted a logging for my, I believe, first ever Aerobeacon in
>> the
>> MW band from Russia heard in North America.  It was for UB on 907 kHz.
>> The
>> problem is that I don't think that PAL lists the town site properly.
>> Rather than Ust-Bolsherelsk, it may very well be Ust-Bolsheretsk.
>> Checking
>> Google Earth, I carefully looked at the entire Kamchatka Peninsula, and
>> could not find the PAL listed town, but rather Ust-Bolsheretsk, on the
>> south-west end of the peninsula, and sure enough, there is an airport
>> there, but sure looks abandoned.  Anyway, just a correction.  Small, but
>> I'm a stickler for details!   73,...Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC
>> PS:  I also meant "UB" in my logging and not UT!
>> _
>>
>
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