[time-nuts] LORAN-C discontinuation in US

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Thu Mar 12 18:37:07 UTC 2009


In message <49B9476C.2070304 at febo.com>, John Ackermann N8UR writes:

>Just saw that the 2010 Federal budget says that LORAN-C stations 
>operated by the US Coast Guard (isn't that all of them in the US?) will 
>be shut down sometime after the end of the 2009 fiscal year:
>http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/loran/default.htm

I belive that the USCG does that each year, and then congress tells
them to stuff it and keep running the things.

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