[time-nuts] Loran C sounds

paul swed paulswedb at gmail.com
Fri Feb 12 03:08:39 UTC 2010


Actually if I had a spare $36M or less I might buy the station on Nantucket.
;-)
Change it from LORAN to Master freq reference...
Though I am thinking several CS standards would be cheaper. Certainly draws
less power

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 10:07 PM, paul swed <paulswedb at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sure they might take a check for $36M or so.
> As they have said without the yanks, its broke. So they will shut down
> before Oct.
> Its all about $$$$$$
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 9:58 PM, J. Forster <jfor at quik.com> wrote:
>
>> I wonder if there is any point in contacting the Canadians about keeping
>> LORAN operating?
>>
>> -John
>>
>> ===============
>>
>>
>> > Unfortunately I had to travel during the shutdown. I had wanted to
>> listen.
>> > But I fired up the austron and 59300 locks (Canadian LORAN)
>> > Like you, I have only ever heard dual rate. Now its a steady patter
>> until
>> > Sept/Oct when even that will go away.
>> >
>> > On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 7:47 PM, Rich and Marcia Putz <rputz at bnin.net>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hi all;
>> >> Just an aside, after hearing dual rated Lorsta Dana for the last 25
>> >> years,
>> >> it is interesting to now hear a single rated chain. Rather than the
>> >> syncopated clatter of Dana, now just a smooth pitter! The east coast
>> >> Canadian chain is much weaker here in northern Indiana than Dana (about
>> >> 125
>> >> miles air) but still quite copyable on my IC-725.
>> >> As far as useability at this point, while Dana was still on I switched
>> >> my
>> >> 2100F over to GRI 5930 and it only took about 1/2 hour to be locked and
>> >> start reading my Austron 1250 frequency numbers. I get my main
>> frequency
>> >> reference from a TAPR T-bolt, but the Austron 2100F was a fun
>> >> experiment. I
>> >> guess the next Loran adventure can be DXing chains.
>> >> Regards; Rich
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