[time-nuts] The Demise of LORAN (was Re: Reference oscillator accuracy)
Poul-Henning Kamp
phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Sun Nov 15 17:51:32 UTC 2009
In message <1078.12.6.201.222.1258304694.squirrel at popacctsnew.quik.com>, "J. Fo
rster" writes:
>The military have air deployable radio trucks. A LORAN station could be
>built into a few trailers, including generator, clocks, and transmitter.
>There are also fielded deployable masts.
In fact, that is pretty much how the original LORAN was built...
There are some very good stories about this on:
http://www.loran-history.info/default.asp
Poul-Henning
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