Aircraft Nav/Aids of the world Everett, Washington, United States
By Rentakid on 21-May-02. Waypoint GC5AAB

ARSR-4 Air Route Surveillance Radar located in Caribou, Maine, USA. It looks like a BIG golf ball!

PENDLETON VORTAC
PENDLETON, OR (PDT)
Type: VORTAC
Class: H-VORTACW
Frequency: 114.70
TACAN channel: 094X
Altitude code: H (high)
Hours of operation: 24
Voice: no
Morse ID: .--. -.. -
NOTAM facility: PDT
FSS hours of operation: 24
Accuracy: NOS
Monitoring: Internal monitoring plus status indicator at control point
Owner: FEDERAL AVIATION ADMIN
Operator: FEDERAL AVIATION ADMIN
Common system usage: yes
For public use: yes

Navigational Aid/Surveillance plane located on Pt. Mugu Naval Air Station, CA.

I don't know the exact name or specifications on this plane, but the pictures will be uploaded as soon as I can get them to show up on my work computer... (Home computer is not cooperating at all.)

This plane IS, to my knowledge used for overhead surveillance and flying into various storms for research. The static display of this aircraft is so new to the base, that the information plaque has not been affixed to the concrete podium in the picnic area.. Will be uploading more info asap.

Tweetybird440

NAV/AID for the Waynesville/Fort Leonard Wood Airport. We don't get many flights in here each day and today was no different. My son and I had to make a few runs around post and then came to the airport to snap this picture.

TFTC Rock-6

NDB at YAW, Shearwater Canada.
Posted coords are for NDB and not from my GPS as I only got close. This was found on a very foggy day, when Nav/Aids are worth their weight in gold.

NAV/AID VOR RANGER near DFW Dallas/Fort Worth Texas

Location
Lat/Long: 32-53-22.020N / 097-10-45.931W (32.8894500/-97.1794253)
Elevation: 637 ft.
Variation: 06E (1995)

Operational Characteristics
Type: VORTAC
Class: H-VORTACW
Frequency: 115.70
TACAN channel: 104X
Altitude code: H (high)
Hours of operation: 24
Voice: no
Morse ID: ..-. ..- --..

A recent GEOCACHE was placed near hear and is Alien Airport Diguise (GCRPAA)

NAV/AID COWBOY just east of DFW and inside Dallas city limits. This one really raised up off the ground due to industrial area.

NAV/AIR MAVERICK located at DFW Airport. Since I started this with the western VOR decided to finish the three primary VOR's at DFW.

Posted coordinates are the actual location but I could only get to N 36° 11.808 W 095° 47.847.
Type: VORTAC
Class: H-VORTACW
Frequency: 114.40
TACAN channel: 091X
Altitude code: H (high)
Hours of operation: 24
Voice: no
Morse ID: - ..- .-..
NOTAM facility: TUL
FSS hours of operation: 24
Accuracy: NOS
Monitoring: Internal monitoring plus status indicator at control point
Owner: FEDERAL AVIATION ADMIN
Operator: FEDERAL AVIATION ADMIN
Common system usage: yes
For public use: yes
Located outside Tulsa,OK TFTC

The 277' high Lax Control Tower monitors, controls and helps aircraft navigate both on the ground in in the surrounding airspace.
TFTC.

Found this navigation aid at the end of the run way at the Trenton / Hancock County airport in Trenton, Maine. Trenton is at the gateway to Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park. The Rockefellers, Martha Stewart and the like fly into this airport when they come up to Maine to visit their summer houses.

This is a NDB Non-Directional Beacon located southwest of Chandler Airport in Fresno, CA. I used to drive by it everyday and thought it was a cell tower.

FCH
CHANDLER NDB
FRESNO, CA
Location
Lat/Long: 36-43-26.213N / 119-50-01.225W (36.7239481/-119.8336736)
Elevation:
Variation: 15E (1985)

Operational Characteristics
Type: NDB
Class: HW
Z marker: no
Frequency: 344
TACAN channel:
Hours of operation: 24
Voice: yes
Morse ID: ..-. -.-. ....
NOTAM facility: FCH

FSS hours of operation: 24

Technical Characteristics
Power: 400 watts
Accuracy: NOS
Monitoring: Internal monitoring plus status indicator at control point
Owner: FEDERAL AVIATION ADMIN
Operator: FEDERAL AVIATION ADMIN Common system usage: yes
For public use: yes

Skyguide Swiss, Flugsicherung Schweiz / Europa

Gruss Die Motte

AIRVAV.com indicated that the closest aircraft nav/aid to me is located at Coleman Young Airport in Detroit, Michigan. I got as close as I could by parking in the teachers' lot at Davis Aero Mechanics High School. For more information see: http://www.airnav.com/airport/KDET

[url=http://www.airnav.com/cgi-bin/navaid-info?id=LWM&type=VOR.DME&name=LAWRENCE]Lawrence VOR/DME[/url]
Lawrence, MA, USA

I've been planning to visit a local VOR/DME for a long time, but have only now been inspired to go out and log it with the impending archival of all locationless caches.

I had anticipated that I would need to walk up a snow-covered access road to get to the Lawrence VOR/DME, but I was pleasantly surprised to find that the FAA must have contracted with someone to plow the access road, as I was able to drive to within a few feet of the gate.

I arrived at the top of the hill shortly before sunrise, and was able to not only see the VOR/DME up close, but catch a photo of the sunrise over the nearby hills.

Thanks for the cache!

Vortac located at Grissom Air Reaserve Base, Indiana. Took these today pics on my check ride. Hope it's OK that I'm not in the pic. There is a picture of the aircraft INS which also has GPS. Costs a lot more than my Garmin. Took it on the way down there for our touch and go's. I am a Boom Operator on KC-135R's out of Selfridge ANGB, MI. Thanks. Included is a bonus pic of Selfridge TACAN. Here's more info:GUS
GRISSOM VORTAC
PERU, IN
Location
Lat/Long: 40-38-41.592N / 086-09-06.176W (40.6448867/-86.1517156)
Elevation: 810 ft.
Variation: 02W (1985)

Operational Characteristics
Type: VORTAC
Class: T-VORTACW
Frequency: 108.45
TACAN channel: 21Y
Altitude code: T (terminal)
Use at high altitude: yes
Hours of operation: 24
Voice: no
Morse ID: --. ..- ...
NOTAM facility: GUS
FSS:
FSS hours of operation: 24

Technical Characteristics
Accuracy: 1 second or better
Monitoring: Internal monitoring plus status indicator
at control point
Owner: US AIR FORCE
Operator: US AIR FORCE
Common system usage: yes
For public use: yes

Remarks
DF/VHF; VOR UNUSABLE 195-220 BYD 15 NM ALL ALTS.
VORTAC UNMONITORED 2300-0700.
MILITARY USE; NO-NOTAM MP; VORTAC .1300-1500Z TUE
VOR PORTION UNUSBL 195-220 BY 15 NM.

The coordinates above are for the place on the road where the photos were taken. This was as close as I could get without climbing the fence. One photo is of the VOR and the other is the GPS with the(out of focus) VOR in the background.
Below are the stats from the AirNav.com website. TFTC

dromere

TUL
TULSA VORTAC
TULSA, OK

Location

Lat/Long: 36-11-46.544N / 095-47-17.194W (36.1962622/-95.7881094)
Elevation: 770 ft.
Variation: 08E (1970)

Operational Characteristics

Type: VORTAC
Class: H-VORTACW
Frequency: 114.40
TACAN channel: 091X
Altitude code: H (high)
Hours of operation: 24
Voice: no
Morse ID: - ..- .-..
NOTAM facility: TUL
FSS:
FSS hours of operation: 24

Technical Characteristics

Accuracy: NOS
Monitoring: Internal monitoring plus status indicator
at control point
Owner: FEDERAL AVIATION ADMIN
Operator: FEDERAL AVIATION ADMIN
Common system usage: yes
For public use: yes

Outer marker for the Gillette Cambell County Airport (KGCC) in Gillette Wyoming. This is a nondirectional radio beacon for runway 34. I gould not get to the middle marker as it is along a private road and they do not use an inner marker in Gillette.

This NDB is located about 2 miles East of the town of Montague CA. Just South of Siskiyou airport which once was home to an air force base.

This radar is a part of the airport Basel Mulhouse.This binational airport serves two different countries (Basel=Switzerland, Mulhouse = France).He is on French area and is from Switzerland with 5 kilometers duty-free road opened.

This NDB is near my Home and my Aéroclub. I am privat Pilot and I use this aircraft Nav/aids for come back after the flight.

nav/aid near schellville airport in sonoma, CA I tried to track this one down on the web it is near 0Q3 see this link: http://airnav.com/airport/0Q3

I have driven by these navigation aids many many times. I decided to stopby today to get a few pictures for the locationless.

There is a couple of differant aids I took pictures of one is the radar (TIMBIT) donut, one is part of the ils system i think. and the others are towers

The are located on the grounds of Lester B. Pearson International Airport in Toronto (it is really in Mississauga), Ontario, Canada

nav/aid in Valdosta GA. Drove by this a few hundred times and decided this is the one to post.

Nav/aid - ILS at airport in Frankfurt, Germany.

Peace - Love - Fog

nav/aid at Kenora, ON. Radio beacon at west approach to runway. Very popular strip for corporate jets in summer, just north and east of Lake of the Woods.

This is the Navigation Tower at the Livermore, CA. airport.

This is the part of the navigation system of the airport of Marsa Alam in tthe South of Egypt, next to the Red Sea.

nav/aid at the Airport Essen/Muelheim in Germany. Found it this weekend together with Sternenkriegerin. The strange green building in the background is one of the few "factories" for zeppelins that exist. The are manufactured here and shipped (or would you say flown?) worldwide. You can even book a flight on a zeppelin here, but they are extremely expensive.

This NAV belongs to the Blackwater Creek Ultralight Airport. I wasn't able to get close enough to read any of the siges other than KEEP OUT. So I got as close as I could and took some pics and grabbed the cords. Thanks for the Cache and learning experiance.

This beacon is located in Ottawa Canada. I could only get to within 200 metres of it after driving through a gate with warning signs stating "Authorized Personnel Only". It just so happens the parking lot to the control tower for the MacDonald Cartier International Airport is the only way in. There were cameras everywhere, and I got that weird feeling that I really shouldn't have been there. Pic 1 is the TACAN, 2 is my GPS on dashboard. Here are the particulars:

UUP

UPLANDS TACAN
UPLANDS, , CANADA

Location
Lat/Long: 45-19-03.151N / 075-40-22.920W (45.3175419/-75.6730333)
Elevation: 400 ft.
Variation: 14W (1980)
Operational Characteristics
Type: TACAN
Class: TACAN
Frequency:
TACAN channel: 025X (tune DME to 108.80)
Hours of operation: 24
Voice: no
Morse ID: ..- ..- .--.
NOTAM facility:
FSS:
Technical Characteristics
Accuracy: 1 second or better
Owner: ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE
Operator: ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE
Common system usage: no
For public use: no

Location: Pariner Berg, a hill near Groß Parin, Gemeinde Bad Schwartau, Kreis Ostholstein, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Type: VOR, ID: LUB, Frequency: 110.6

This radio beacon is one of the Nav/Aids for the Airport Lübeck-Blankensee. It is located on the "Pariner Berg", a hill (70.05 metres high) near Groß Parin, a little village belonging to the town of Bad Schwartau. The cache "Fiz 01 Pariner Höhenweg" (GCR6FE) is hidden near the fence around the beacon.

Thanks for the cache!

Sanne & Kiki

Nav/aid this is the ILS for runway 29 @ Antwerp airport ( EBAW ). This device is @ the end of the runway and guides the aircraft onto the centreline of the runway.

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I got as close as I could. I didn't feel comfortable getting too close, national security, and all.
It was very cold the morning of Thanksgiving out in Posey County, Indiana. Thanks for the find


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This VOR is used by Nice international Airport, been driving past it for years on our hols in the south of France.

Hello from Wermelskirchen/Germany.

Found this one (but dont't know the Type) near our
Airoplane Field "Hohenhagen" in "Remscheid Ehringhausen"

Some Sportsflyer told me, that it is a Nav/aid.

By the way - all the best from Germany and "happy hunting"!

Greetings from Martin S.

Nav/aid near our home in Yarmouth Maine. We heeded the warning.

I have no clue what type this is. I couldnt find pictures of the different types of nav aids. Someone else posted a similar picture, so I can only assume it is correct. That and it is located at Williams Gateway Airport (formerly Williams Air Force Base). You can drive right past it, but they do not give you any place to pull over and park. This was the best we could do to take a photo.

N.O.A.A (National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration) Station that serves the Southbend In. Airport.

Thanks For The Cache,

Lost Scouts
Paw Paw Mi.

Among the airplanes which took off from the New Tokyo International Airport (Narita), an airplane going to Europe via the Niigata area goes along this Seki inn sky which is the southernmost extreme of V15

SEKIYADO
VOR/DME 117.00MHz

DETLING VOR, located in the UK east of Gatwick and Heathrow

Reporting NDB radio beacon designated AMAZN. It is a fenced facility located near Amazonia, Missouri serving Rosecrans Memorial Airport.

Will upload pics as soon as my home PC is available.

NAV/AID
Found this one out in a field north of the road while driving down Highway 6 in Indiana. It appears to be an aid for the Starke Co, South Bend, et al airports.

"Reporting check point" Nav/Aid, Whilst in Alice Springs In central Australia we stopped by the airport for a look around and snapped this Nav/Aids tower. The locals were happy to explain what is does and were intrigued by our GPS/Laptop setup and it mapping. Many thanks Rentakid for the opportunity to log this Locationless Cache.

I found this NDB near the Airport "Trollenhagen" (Mecklenburg Western-Pommerania, Germany).
The Code of the NDB is "NRG", the Airport [url=http://www.flughafen-neubrandenburg.de]"Neubrandenburg-Trollenhagen"[/url] is military & civilian used.
The Airport Code is:
ICAO: ETNU
AFTN: ETNU ZP ZX
IATA: FNB
SITA: FNB AP XH

further informations at MIL-AIP (http://www.mil-aip.de/pams/aip/ad/ET_AD_2_ETNU_en.pdf)

This is the end of the runway 1 (shouldn't it be 01?) at the closed down Shirly airport also known as 9B4. The end marker antennae have been removed about a year ago when it closed down although the runway looks like it's been closed down for at least 10 years. There is a big X through the 1, there also in an X at the middle of the runway and at the other end. But it looks like the actual other end, runway 19 has been covered over with some industrial construction since there is only an X and no 19.
I come near here often to set up my telescope and observe the deep sky, even though there is a maximum security prison not a mile from here, their lights are kind of blocked towards the east, my site has a great view south, west and north and is less than 10 miles from home. You can easily see M19 (at declination -26, about 21 degrees above the horizon) and actually see M62 even closer to the horizon, you do the calculation as to when they are visible.

OOPS, it looks like I don't have my digital picture of this on me so it will be posted tomorrow. P.S. I tried to ask Rentakid if this is acceptable but his mailbox has bounced my mail back for 4 days now. I could get a photo of a NDB but from 400 feet away at another airport near here but no closer since the FBO does not want to drive me any closer.

mixing business with pleasure/geocaching, I stumbled upon this while driving down a nice quiet backroad in Delaware.

from airnav.com ...
ENO
SMYRNA VORTAC
KENTON, DE
Location
Lat/Long: 39-13-54.003N / 075-30-57.325W (39.2316675/-75.5159236)
Elevation: 10 ft.
Variation: 09W (1965)
Operational Characteristics

Type: VORTAC
Class: L-VORTAC
Frequency: 111.40
TACAN channel: 051X

sender for Aircraft navigation signals.This one you can find in Goose Bay,Labrador,Canada

NDB - Delta - Frequency 269 UDE (Morse Code ..- -.. .)This NDB was established to divert commercial and civilian aircraft around a military airport located at Portage La Prairie Manitoba, Canada.

Found this aircraft navigation device near Roskilde airport
in Denmark.

Found it in Germany Allgäu near Kempten. I didn't new it was for airplanes.

Greetings from the Alps.

I found the the aircraft navigation on the airport from duesseldorf/germany

These navigational aids are near the Florence, SC (FLO) airport ... right out in the middle of a couple of farm fields. You have to wonder if they know what that big bowling pin is??

NAVAID INFORMATION AS PUBLISHED ON 27 OCTOBER 2005

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FLO
FLORENCE VORTAC
FLORENCE, SC
Location
Lat/Long: 34-13-58.561N / 079-39-25.611W (34.2329336/-79.6571142)
Elevation: 110 ft.
Variation: 03W (1965)

Operational Characteristics
Type: VORTAC
Class: H-VORTAC
Frequency: 115.20
TACAN channel: 099X
Altitude code: H (high)
Hours of operation: 24
Voice: yes
Morse ID: ..-. .-.. ---
Station call name: ANDERSON
NOTAM facility: FLO
FSS:
FSS hours of operation: 24

Technical Characteristics
Accuracy: NOS
Monitoring: Internal monitoring plus status indicator
at control point
Owner: FEDERAL AVIATION ADMIN
Operator: FEDERAL AVIATION ADMIN
Common system usage: yes
For public use: yes

Remarks
HIWAS BDCST.
TACAN AZIMUTH & DME UNUSBL 200-025 BYD 30 NM BLO 4000 FT.
VOR PORTION UNUSBL 089-125 BYD 30 NM BLO 3000 FT, 126-194 BYD 10 NM, 195-223 BYD 10 NM BLO 4000 FT.

Nav/aid in Hawii. We had lots of fun finding this road to get this pic. Thanks for the hunt. Sorry it took us awhile to log, we just finished up with the vacation photos.

The tower and safety devices of the airport Lippstadt/Paderborn (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)

Thanks for the cache
Ulrike and Rainer

Navaid I found on this Day in Bitburg/Germany at the old airbase. A nice tower.....look the picture....

Greeting from Germany buy Team Uschi

www.diealsdorfer.de

Tucson VORTAC near Tucson International Airport

TUCSON VORTAC
TUCSON, AZ
Location
Lat/Long: 32-05-42.737N / 110-54-53.483W (32.0952047/-110.9148564)
Elevation: 2672 ft.
Variation: 12E (1995)

Operational Characteristics
Type: VORTAC
Class: H-VORTACW
Frequency: 116.00
TACAN channel: 107X
Altitude code: H (high)
Hours of operation: 24
Voice: yes
Morse ID: - ..- ...
NOTAM facility: TUS
FSS:
FSS hours of operation: 24

AZTech - #457 - 5/12 today

It was a big antenna.

Matsuyama, Japan VOR
ID:MPE
Freq: VOR 116.30MHz

[This entry was edited by holmes1 on Sunday, October 23, 2005 at 9:09:45 PM.]

VOR/DME Butts Army Air Field, Ft Carson Colorado. This one was pretty tough. I was on Ft Carson with security everywhere. The coordinates of the Nav Aid were within view of a second security gate to get near the airfiled. So I could not get out of my car to take photos. I took photos of equipment as I could see it, but am not sure I actually got the VOR/DME. I am retired military, so had access to the Post, but this was in the middle of nowhere, so any activity was the only thing to look at.

VORTAC on Columbus AFB, in Mississippi. It is named Caledonia VORTAC. This is as close as I could get without seeing the business end of a gun...

Nav/Aid
Type - NDB
Id - ZYZ (Queensway)
Freq - 368
Airport - CYYZ (Toronto Pearson International)
Latitude - 43.619494
Longitude - -79.547847

Noticed that VOR-DME and some of the Pearson markers were already logged - so after some research found this NDB

Thanks for the cache

NDB: VENICE Municipal Airport, FL, KVNC Freq. 206 Var. 02W Can't get much closer unless we "taxi over".
BTW ... Since we were here last, the 44th Aero Squadron went belly-up! Bummer! Those are nice places with the WWI Aircraft /Aerodrome decorations.
Thanks for the cache,
Tom and Chickie

I've been driving by this for years. I believe this was part of the nearby closed McClellan AFB. It's been transferred to public use so I'm not sure if it is still active.

Seems to be the Inner or Middle Marker of Frankfurt-Hahn-Airport, former known as US-Airbase Hahn.

It is abaut 8km in line of the runway.

schmittinger

Camp Pendleton TACAN

off of the I-5.

I was driving so I couldn't get into the picture.

#73
Here's a shot of the Watchman Tower at RAF Cosford,used alongside ATC as far as I know. Picture shows my GPS PDA with the co-ords. TFTC

A MLS station at ILG airport.

NDB Modbury 377. This longwave beacon is located 10.7nm from Adelaide airport at a bearing of 40.7 degrees. The location is now in the northeastern suburbs of Adelaide though was probably bush when first installed. Transmitter power is 100 watts. The usual approach path for jets is over the top of this one, though wind conditions may mean take offs happen this direction instead.

IFR Reporting Point: HUMPE. Location: 38-52-28.100N / 104-41-08.310W (COLORADO) Navaid radial/DME: BRKr197.21.

HUMPE intersection is listed on the LOC approach to Rwy 17L at Colorado Springs Muni/Peterson AFB.

HUMPE is inside the fence behind me, near the intersection of Akers and Electronic Drives in Colorado Springs.

I found this Nav Aid for the Oakland International Airport (OAK) in California. One of the roads to the airport passes right by it, but the picture was taken from a further distance where I could park.

Escanaba found this VORTAC at the eastern end of the Boise airport. Couldn't get too close to it so logged the position on the road south of the VORTAC. Also found a good webpage at http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/AERO/navimages/cmanual_vor.html that allows us novices to identify the different kinds of air navigation equipment.

Found this array at the Daytona Beach Airport, Florida. There wasn't any signs around except, do not enter, a local worker just said they were navigational aids, so thats all I know.
Thanks
TheDeLandDuo

Koko Head VORTAC
Class-H-Vortac
Freq 113.90
Station Name -- Honolulu Radio

VOR 115.90 DME ch 106
Aéroport de Mont-Joli(CYYY), Québec, Canada

RIVERSIDE VOR/DME
KANSAS CITY, MO
Location
Lat/Long: 39-07-13.399N / 094-35-47.735W (39.1203886/-94.5965931)
Elevation: 740 ft.
Variation: 05E (1985)

Operational Characteristics
Type: VOR/DME
Class: T-VORW/DME
Frequency: 111.40
TACAN channel: 051X
Altitude code: T (terminal)
Hours of operation: 24
Voice: no
Morse ID: .-. .. ...
NOTAM facility: MKC
FSS:
FSS hours of operation: 24

Technical Characteristics
Accuracy: NOS
Monitoring: Internal monitoring plus status indicator
at control point
Owner: FEDERAL AVIATION ADMIN
Operator: FEDERAL AVIATION ADMIN
Common system usage: yes
For public use: yes

NDB'S
This is located in the middle of RAF Cosford Airfield in Shropshire UK.

VANCOUVER VORTAC
VANCOUVER, , CANADA
Location
Lat/Long: 49-04-38.375N / 123-08-56.715W
(49.0773264/-123.1490875)
Elevation: 17 ft.
Variation: 21E (1985)

Operational Characteristics
Type: VORTAC
Class: VORTAC
Frequency: 110.70
TACAN channel: 44
Hours of operation: 24
Voice: yes
Morse ID: -.-- ...- .-.
Pictures included (2)



[This entry was edited by Forjo on Monday, October 03, 2005 at 6:31:42 PM.]

"reporting at checkpoint RTM CH041X" 110.400 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. One of our team members always wondered what the strange thing was. Now he knows it has to do with airplanes and navigation.

Team Lieveheersbeestje from the Netherlands

VOR 114.0 Ch 87 AST
located at the Astoria Regional Airport in Astoria, OR
Coordinates are an estimate since it is located across the airport from the nearest public access.

VOR

Visited this site today as part of a Lincoln Lab tour & BMD technology course. This is the site of the HAYSTACK and Millstone Hill Radars which track air, endo, and exoatmospheric traffic out to 22,000 miles! Now that's some pretty awesome nav aids! The posted picture was gleaned from an approved source since personal cameras are verbotten on-site.

Here's a little more history for the geo-log. The Millstone X-Band radar was built in 1957 with the primary mission of serving as part of America's Air Defense against the Soviet Bear Bomber. It has been upgraded many times since and now has much greater sensitivity to track very small space targets at great distances. It's current mission is to perform Deep Space catalog maintenance, Satellite Launch Coverage, space object identification, and studies and analysis for "geosynchronous encounters," not to be confused with close encounters of a third kind (LOL)! It is quite possible that the Millstone radar was tracking one of the GPS satellites at the very same time the geo-ranger was receiving a NAV solution for this site from the same satellite!!!

[This entry was edited by Team Geo-Rangers on Thursday, September 29, 2005 at 7:51:22 PM.]

[This entry was edited by Team Geo-Rangers on Thursday, September 29, 2005 at 7:54:32 PM.]

These Navaids are found on top of Cedar Mountain in Iron County, Utah. They are referred to locally as the 'golf balls' From the valley floor, they do resemble that. When we were there there was a suspicious man with a microwave doing experiments, but we discovered he was just testing cell phone service (Can you hear me now?)

I found a series of 3 navigation beacons near the village of Sannox on the Isle of Arran, Scotland. I don't know why they are there but there is very large mountain rising almost vertically behind them, so maybe that is the reason. Purple Penguin

WALLASEY NAVAID
This navigational aid is in a field about 12km from home. I've never been up close in all they years I've known about it. Its much larger than I expected.
I'm told is for transatlantic traffic reaching the UK, and on a clear day you can see the jets change direction overhead
TFTC (our first reverse cache) - PhilPamandRob

We were out caching in Kansas today and spotted this VOR near Hiawatha, Kansas in a corn field.

Steve & Mary Brown
http://mysteve.com
Kansas City, MO
MOKan Geocaching Forum
http://mogeo.ipbhost.com/index.php

[This entry was edited by Steve Brown on Monday, September 19, 2005 at 9:15:03 PM.]

This Vortac is located in Andrew County Missouri in the middle of farm country. I will post a closer picture when I get permission from the land owner. They were not home when I visited this location. Our nearest airport is Rosecrans Air field, a Air National Guard Base, in St. Joseph Missouri.

These are some visual flight aids at the small Mt. Comfort Airport about 25 miles northeast of Indianapolis's main airport. I got lucky - just as I was snapping the photo of one of the aids 2 old style fighter(?) planes took off in my lens. Then, 2 sec. later another "cropduster" style plane. And for some reason the Met Life blimp is here - maybe for tomorrow's Indianapolis Colts game.

The navaid can be seen in the distance to the right of the tail of the aircraft pictured. This picture was taken at the Roatan Airport while I was waiting on the tarmac for departure.

This is the El Monte NDB in El Monte, CA. Photos taken at coords N 34 05.358 W 118 01.874. Info follows:

EMT
EL MONTE NDB
EL MONTE, CA

Location
Lat/Long: 34-05-17.932N / 118-01-52.342W (34.0883144/-118.0312061)
Elevation: 305 ft.
Variation: 15E (1965)

Operational Characteristics
Type: NDB
Class: MHW
Z marker: no
Frequency: 359
TACAN channel:
Hours of operation: 24
Voice: no
Voice ID: yes
Morse ID: . -- -
NOTAM facility: EMT
FSS:
FSS hours of operation: 24

Technical Characteristics
Power: 25 watts
Accuracy: NOS
Monitoring: Internal monitoring plus status indicator
at control point
Owner: LOS ANGELES COUNTY
Operator: LOS ANGELES COUNTY
Common system usage: yes
For public use: yes

Found these NavAids on a backroad behind the Martinsburg, W.Va. Regional Airport. There were a number to choos from. I was hoping for flight activity overhead, as the Martinsburg Air National Guard is based here. Thanks for the challenge. Pix to follow.

NAV/AID located at Rocky Mount - Wilson Airport in Nash County outside of Rocky Mount, North Carolina.

nav/aid glide path, iner marker and the last one is a radar
of the piste 10 in dorval québec with in bonus an aircraft.

Some different Navigation Antennas from Rhein Ruhr Airport in NRW Germany

Found this in WEB :

DUS 115.15 am Platz/at field ABN PAPI ILS RWY 05R 111.50 ILS RWY 23L 109.90 ILS RWY 05L 109.50 ILS RWY 23R 109.30

NEW RUSSIA TOWNSHIP OHIO VORTAC LORAIN COUNTY AIRPORT 44050 RUSSIA RD. THE AIRPORT IS APPROXIMATELY 1120 ACRES. RUNWAY 07/25 IS 5000 FT IN LENGTH AND IS 100 FT WIDE WITH A FULL INSTRUMENT LANDING SYSTEM. JOHNSTON AVIATION IS THE AIRPORT'S FULL SERVICE FIXED BASED OPERATOR...THX ...RAGEXN!!!

Found this VHF outer marker station near Lake Brandt in Greensboro, NC. This is part of an ILS approach system for GSO airport. The following was information I found on the web.

Type: OUTER MARKER BEACON ONLY
Name: BRANT
Location: 36-10-22.587N / 079-50-13.420W
5.5 nm (33570 ft.) from the approach end of runway 23

Found this while doing another cache

If you are flying into Sioux Lookout, Ontario Canada there is the NDB approach which has a colocated DME or you can fly the GPS approaches. A most enjoable hunt. OH-MY-GéOSH

Nav/Aid - HOPEWELL VORTAC (HPW) near Hopewell, VA. In 25 years of flying I've seen a lot of these from the air, this is the first time I've been up close to one on the ground.

This is what i find for aircraft nav/aid
it's for navigation in space

Located at the canadian space agency in St-Hubert,Quebec,Canada

VORTAC - Morman Mesa
Picture from Highway I-15 north east of Las Vegas, Nevada.
Frequency: 114.3 Ch 90 (code MMM)
Info as shown on the Las Vegas Sectional chart.