[time-nuts] Questions about Austron 5000 Loran C receiver

[paul swed]

That is indeed interesting because the only rcvr I knew that needed a pdp 8
was the older actual station monitoring units.
I would strongly believe if you know what the 5000 wants these days its
very reasonable to emulate the control system.
That said in the US the only GRI I could monitor was the great lakes chain
89700.
It was on and off the air as you might expect for a test.
Regards
Paul
WB8TSL

On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk>wrote:

> In message <CAAzRQfAhDyMexYqYPQXVbvuFwZ_tow2HCp9WYeS=
> dksREnWnQw at mail.gmail.com>
> , Andy Lokken writes:
>
> >Recently, a member of this list gave me an Austron 5000 Loran C receiver.
> >With the recent news about Loran C, I am interested to try to use this
> >device. But I have some questions:
> >
> >Is it possible to use this receiver without the PDP-8 computer that it was
> >generally paired with? If so, how is it done?
>
> Only by substituting a different computer, running a program which
> controls the receiver like the PDP-8 would have done.
>
> This may be easier than it sounds, provided you know what the heck
> the PDP/8 did.
>
> Otherwise: forget all about it.
>
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