[time-nuts] eLoran announcement in the UK

Brian Alsop alsopb at nc.rr.com
Wed Jul 17 13:28:49 EDT 2013


I find this interesting.

The military is also rekindling an interest in HF communications.  It 
seems that they are worried that satellite communications are vulnerable.

A story I heard was that one fellow (a ham and book reseller) spent 10 
year buying up surplus Collins 5 kW transmitters from the government.

He had the warehouse space and equipment to handle heavy stuff.

Now there is a run on his stock by, guess who, the military.

Brian

On 7/17/2013 17:06, Iain Young wrote:
> On 17/07/13 17:27, David wrote:
>
>> Not the first time this has been mentioned but another confirmation of
>> the GPS alternative and "eLoran stations to be rolled out across UK"
>>
>> http://eandt.theiet.org/news/2013/jul/eloran-rollout.cfm?utm_source=Adestra&utm_campaign=E%26T%20News%20fortinightly%20-AUTOMATION%20VERSION-%20members&utm_medium=Newsletters-E%26T%20News&utm_content=E%26T%20News%20-%20Members&utm_term=http%3A%2F%2Feandt.theiet.org%2Fnews%2F2013%2Fjul%2Feloran-rollout.cfm&utm_contact=17085095
>>
>
> Now this will be interesting. My -understanding- is that eLORAN is
> backwards compatible with LORAN-C, (So an old LORAN receiver will
> still receive the eLORAN signals, you just wont get the extra features
> [low rate data transmissions, timing built in, rather than relying on
> TOC etc])
>
> Now if only they'd stop playing with Anthorn during the day at the
> moment, I could do some more tests. Ah well, I'll get to it later,
> it'll be cooler then anyway!
>
>
> Iain
>
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