On: Learning Morse code in the 21st century

[madengr]

I like to hunt Non Directional Beacons on the long wave band. Unfortunately I have read they are being decommissioned.

[thepete2 → madengr]

Are you sure? There are some beacons by the IARU [0] - across the world - that one after the other transmit their callsign. It can be used to test reception and it can be a challenge to receive a signal from 100s of kilometers away without a repeater.

[0] http://www.iaru.org/beacon-project.html

[madengr → thepete2]

These can be heard out to a few 100 km:

http://www.dxinfocentre.com/ndb.htm