FZ 200Khz?

It's been over a month.... July 13 I tuned the trusty 'ol FRG to 220 Khz and nothing. I was expecting the familiar dits and dahs of FZ, literally about 8 miles away. There was never a time that I couldn't hear it. I had originally thoughr something was off kilter. Was my antenna not attached? switched off maybe? converter not on? Wrong on all accounts. Seems FZ is now silent. After a week or so I fired off an email to the airport manager that was never responded to. Maybe I'll try again, or find another contact. I'll have to look for any resource that keeps track of decomissions on the FAA website or such. So for now PYA and YKG remain the "loud ones"

LF antenna

No longer will be the days that I rely only upon a 100' (ish) wire for LF reception. I finally decided to plunk down some $$ for a nice active vertical. So now I have an LF Engineering L-400B on the way. Hopefully soon I can report on how much it outperforms the wire :)

My NDB chasing station

Kinda got into a lull for a year when I moved to an apartment complex and got away from the NDB chasing for the duration. Now that I'm out of there and have more radio freedom I have jumped back into the frequencies way down low. Went to the Rochester hamfest and walked away with a steal. Yaesu Musen FRG-7 modified by Radio West to cover 10 to 599Khz, added in 3 rockwell collins mechanical filters and gave the radio a much needed digital display. Appears they did an audio mod also to give it an extra punch. I believe it's quite a steal at $140....
Right now all I have out is 100 or so feet of wire, but for this season it's doing GREAT! should be even better when my new antenna arrives, decided to plunk down some $$ for a nice active antenna that I can get away from some of the ever present noise. After looking around I opted for the LF Engineering L-400 LF/VLF Active antenna :

http://www.lfengineering.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=LF&Product_Code=012&Category_Code=LFP

So hopefully soon I can give this thing some rave reviews! such as this one:
http://www.lfengineering.com/pdf/Monitoring%20Times%20L-400B.pdf