[time-nuts] AUSTRON MODEL 2100F Conversion

paul swed paulswedb at gmail.com
Mon Oct 4 21:09:05 UTC 2010


I think I agree with John they don't care.

On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 4:40 PM, J. Forster <jfor at quik.com> wrote:

> Maybe we should ship all the old Austrons and other LORAN stuff to the
> Chairpol in charge of the Coast Guard, collect.
>
> -John
>
> =============
>
> > Don't think any of it mattered.
> > The goal was to save the operating costs to show that we are thrifty
> bunch
> > in government.
> > I was caught a bit off guard I did check my references/standards in late
> > July even early august. Had looked for notices and missed them.
> > Would have taken final checks.
> > Oh well. I am looking forward to listening for Europe and perhaps even
> > getting a lock in the winter. It simply will not be as it was anyhow.
> Long
> > path distortions.
> > At least the austrons can be used as very very nice frequency
> comparators.
> > Regards.
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Chuck Harris <cfharris at erols.com> wrote:
> >
> >> That would explain why my 2100T hasn't worked since I got back
> >> from vacation.
> >>
> >> When the US chains shut down, the commerce department said it would
> >> continue those stations that serviced Canada (because of treaties),
> >> until November 2010.  I guess Canada decided it didn't need that long.
> >>
> >> I tried during the deliberation process to put some input into the
> >> system,
> >> but it was refused because I only used the frequency and timing
> >> services.
> >> The powers that be were only interested in how shutting down Loran would
> >> affect the transportation industry.
> >>
> >> I wonder if they had a clue about how many small businesses they were
> >> going
> >> to impact when they shut down?
> >>
> >> -Chuck Harris
> >>
> >>
> >> paul swed wrote:
> >>
> >>> I'll be, I missed it US and Canadian Loran C shut down 1 Aug.. So
> >>> either
> >>> you
> >>> pick up Europe or build a loran c sim.
> >>> Regards
> >>>
> >>> On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 11:06 AM, paul swed<paulswedb at gmail.com>
>  wrote:
> >>>
> >>>  Stanley,
> >>>> The new link does indeed work.
> >>>>
> >>>
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