[time-nuts] Loran?

paul swed paulswedb at gmail.com
Mon Dec 20 23:34:07 UTC 2010


Thanks Poul will do its long enough past sunset to start hunting.

On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk>wrote:

> In message <AANLkTi=KYamMSdN7KoMCPBs8iGw=EXzxm7NQ767-+TOc at mail.gmail.com<EXzxm7NQ767-%2BTOc at mail.gmail.com>>,
> paul
>  swed writes:
>
> >Well to be honest when I typed loran it was simply because I felt like it.
> >It was more important to communicate the fact that I couldn't here and
> >european stations in the northeast us. Thats all that mattered. Caps or
> >lowercase simply no longer matters to me on the dead us service.
> >So getting back at it I will fire up a different antenna and preamp and
> give
> >it one more shot.
>
> Make sure you listen on the correct GRI's, some tables still list the
> long abandoned 3-digit USCG chains, rather than the 4-digit NELS chains:
>
>        Eiği, GRI=9007
>        Lessay, GRI=6731
>        Sylt, GRI=7499
>        Værlandet, GRI=7001
>
> For what it's worth, I have never been able to more than barely detect
> the 9960 chain from here in Denmark, and that was only after a major
> DSP exercise...
>
> Poul-Henning
>
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