[time-nuts] Loran C sounds

paul swed paulswedb at gmail.com
Fri Feb 12 22:30:02 UTC 2010


It does if you are a presidential suck up.
ie DHS head
Whats being saved is truly nothing.
But don't want to get on that soap box poor form.

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Sykes, Stephan <ssykes at harris.com> wrote:

> Majdi is correct. The budget report I saw showed that it was less to
> upgrade than to decommission. It still doesn't make sense to rely on
> only one system with the assumption that it won't break. I think in the
> future that shutting down these site will be deemed a bad idea.
>
>
> Steve KD2OM
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On
> Behalf Of Majdi S. Abbas
> Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 13:01
> To: peter at ni6e.com; Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Loran C sounds
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 07:29:39AM -0800, Peter Putnam wrote:
> > The antenna required on an aircraft must be vertically polarized and
> > of significant length. The route from the US west coast to Hawaii
> > had no coverage in the middle one-third of the route at night.
> > Coverage was even less during daylight hours.
>
>        Not so;
>
>        Designs for H-field antennas for LORAN and GPS exist, and
> have been prototyped.
>
>        eLORAN receivers perform on the order of unassisted GPS,
> and combined receivers (eLORAN+GPS) beat the accuracy of either.
>
>        The problem with the -C shutdown is it means they having
> nearly finished the upgrades, will never run the new system.
> It's going to cost more to tear it down than finish the modernization.
>
>        Cheers,
>
>        --msa
>
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