[time-nuts] LORAN C 89700 dropped carriers at 1615 EST after a solid 3 days

J. Forster jfor at quikus.com
Thu Mar 22 21:48:00 UTC 2012


On the 2100Fs it reacquires and locks, if the power has not been
interrupted, but you have to manually set thye Mode to compute the
frequency error. Otherwise, it just indicated microseconds.

A power failure and you have to reenter tye GRI.

-John

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> My experience is you always have to reacquire on the austrons 2100 series.
> I think its either the period they were made or a choice, that you
> reacquire on loss.
>
> It was pure luck I caught the additional station by logging the screen
> info.
> I have mentioned several times I have not heard the other GRIs only 89700.
> Regards
> Paul.
>
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Stan, W1LE <stanw1le at verizon.net> wrote:
>
>> Interesting.
>>
>> My FS700 also automatically reacquired.
>> But the Austron 2100 and 2100F had to be manually reset to acquire
>> again,
>> after the short outage.
>>
>> How did you determine there was a short lived other station in the chain
>> ?
>> Other than manually going to the screen that shows the additional
>> activity
>> ?
>>
>> I was not able to hear/lock onto 99600 nor 99300 GRIs, (possibly
>> Wildwood,
>> NJ).
>> Are there any others I should listen for ?
>>
>> Stan, W1LE     Cape Cod
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 3/22/2012 4:55 PM, paul swed wrote:
>>
>>> More interestingly the FS700 reacquired automatically! Never seen that
>>> before.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 4:53 PM, paul swed<paulswedb at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>>  Interesting just fired up a general coverage rcvr and LORAN C can be
>>>> heard
>>>> but not that strong.
>>>> It does appear to be 89700 still as the austron is settling in quickly
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 4:49 PM, paul swed<paulswedb at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  Best run yet, 3 solid days of operation and I was able to log various
>>>>> local references as compared to a HP3801 and Tbolt.
>>>>> Only 2 stations generally on the air. 89700 Master and X, but an
>>>>> unidentified one came up for a short bit in the 4th position
>>>>> Regards
>>>>> Paul
>>>>> WB8TSL
>>>>>
>>>>>
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