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Amusing, but just a bad photoshop of the 747 LCF. See high-res here:
http://www.airliners.net/uf/view.file?i ... bwrB1L.jpg

Shots of the current LCF:

http://www.komotv.com/boeing/story.asp?ID=45510

http://tinyurl.com/ybqny2

It's been at Paine Field since October 7.

http://static.flickr.com/112/263442285_21e6e7f2ee_o.jpg

8) What are the chances That it will come over here to moses lake for flight testing :D ?????????

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Brian Sewell

It's already been there about 10 times, how could you miss it?

Been at Work Thats how I Could miss it, BTW Whats its call sign ??

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Brian Sewell

Weiner 1

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:lol: Ha Ha Ha Good one (that should be its call sign) :lol:

8) Brian Sewell :shock:

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I wonder if it will be affected by 800mhz re-BUN-ding....





That's a pretty good photophop if you ask me.

I'm waiting for the Safeco "Ballpark" Field rendition.

-Mike

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should be called Clap 1 since its coming from Asia to deliver the parts and looks like a puffy phallus

:lol: HMM Should be :shock:

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Did anyone happen to notice that this picture also provides an almost perfect shot of the aeronautical radio beacon for the SeaTac landing approach?

The two wooden poles have three wires between them. This was the antenna for the "PARKK" longwave beacon on 281 kHz. The V-shaped yagi antenna pointing towards the sky is for the 75 mHz outer marker beacon for the Instrument Landing System (ILS). These installations were usually about 3 to 4 miles away from the airport that they were serving. In this case, it just happens that the outer marker site for SeaTac ended up being on Boeing Field.

These type of beacon sites are being decommissioned because they have been rendered obsolete by GPS and other more precise electronic systems. Enjoy them while you can because they soon will be gone.

Beaconhunter, I'm impressed! I, too, have it as one of my strange hobbies to find aeronautical navaids. Been doing it ever since I learned to fly and got my pilots license. I didn't notice that was PARKK right away, I was always told PARKK was on top of the boeing hanger on the west side of the airport but you're right, that sure looks like an NDB in the picture.

Another neat NDB to find is NOLLA - it's the outer marker for the ILS approach into Boeing field from the north (Runway 13R). It's right at the top of the Magnolia bridge, (west side) just south of the street there. Broadcast on 362khz, morse code 'BF'.

Same setup, two telephone poles with wire strung between them and also the yagi for the OM beacon light. Next time anyone is over in Magnolia, check it out.

Andrecs,

Glad to hear I'm not the only one who does this as a hobby. It's interesting that you should mention NOLLA; that was the first NBD I ever heard and what was got me interested in tracking beacons in the first place.

During the early 80's, NOLLA operated on 518 kHz. I ran across a morse code signal signal at the bottom end of the dial on the AM radio in my truck. It was constantly repeating the letters "BF, BF, "BF" over and over. I had no knowledge of NDBs at the time and started tracking the signal using a portable AM radio. After quite a few failed attempts, I eventually located the site on Magnolia that you describe.

After that, I became curious about other NDBs and gradually located all of the sites in the Puget Sound area, then western Washington, and then eastern Washington and adjoining states. I also did quite a bit of travelling for business, and when I had extra time, I tried to locate nearby beacons. All in all, I have probably located close to a hundred.

I haven't traced beacons in quite a while because I have already located most within reasonable driving distances, and as I mentioned previously, many are now being taken out of service for good.

I was especially saddened to see one of my favorites taken out of service: station EBY located near Neah Bay. This was a high power station that served as a radio "marker" for the NW tip of the United States. During the right conditions, it could be heard from thousands of miles away. The site consisted of four towers spaced about 100' apart and looked quite unlike any other beacon site I have seen.

I've been listening to these for a while now....
I have a Kenwood TS-430 with a longwire antenna.
Since these are slowly being phased out, what happens to the tower
equipment? It would be a shame to see it all go to waste.
I was up around Neah Bay recently at the northwesternmost tip of the
state. There was a road that someone said led up to a Coast Guard
station, but I didn't go up there. My wife and I took the trek through
the woods down to see the lighthouse.
The database here has a huge list of NDB's.

--KD7YVV, Kirkland, WA