[time-nuts] LORAN C shutdown

[J. Forster]

Very few cell towers in mid ocean and GPS signals are blocked by trees.

Congress are IDIOTS.

-John

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> Triangulate with cell phone towers?    ;)
>
> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Lester Veenstra <m0ycm at veenstras.com>
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>> Sextant and chronometer, of course!
>>
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On
>> Behalf Of Eric Garner
>> Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 10:26 PM
>> To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
>> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] LORAN C shutdown
>>
>> So what are ships/planes supposed to if/when satellite navigation
>> becomes unreliable or unavailable ?
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 2:14 PM, J. Forster <jfor at quik.com> wrote:
>> > The Congress is UTTERLY CLUELESS. It's supposed to shut down Jan 4,
>> 2010.
>> >
>> > See:
>> >
>> >
>> http://appropriations.house.gov/pdf/Homeland_Security_FY10_Conference.pdf
>> >
>> > -John
>> >
>> > ===============
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >> Anybody looking to buy an Austron 2000c ?   Any takers?  Any?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> -Bob
>> >>
>> >> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 3:01 PM, paul swed <paulswedb at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> Alan
>> >>>    Very sorry if I grabbed your thread. I thought I changed the
>> header
>> >>>
>> >>> I finally found it in the senate votes this weekend.
>> >>> The house and senate voted to shut it down and the president signed
>> it.
>> >>> (We will save .00002% of the budget)
>> >>> The USCG and DHS said they had no need.
>> >>> It was very hard to find, its not on the uscg or megapulse site
>> >>>
>> >>> Changed the header but maybe you can't start threads that way.
>> >>> I sure would like to be very very wrong on this subject.
>> >>>
>> >>> Regards
>> >>> Paul.
>> >>> PS one day I will figure out why the reply says me
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