[time-nuts] eLORAN on the air for 30 days

paul swed paulswedb at gmail.com
Tue Oct 25 18:38:27 EDT 2016


Wildwood is a single transmitter and antenna. Not even a full power site.
It was for testing. That said its key function is to distribute time
frequency and messages. Not navigation. But evidently with a single tower
navigation is possible.
They are using advanced coding that seems to help the signal work well in
buildings to a degree.
But I am not an expert or anything like that on the navigation method.
I can say the frequency stability was very good and with the coding even
better.

I am just happy a LORAN transmitter is on the air with a HP 5071 on the
other end. Good enough for my meager use.
Regards
Paul
WB8TSL

On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 6:15 PM, Tim Shoppa <tshoppa at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm all for a diversity of systems - putting all our eggs in the GPS basket
> seems unwise (and I maintain WWV receivers hooked to NTP at home!)
>
> That said, what kind of demonstration can they do with a single LORAN site?
> Or is "Wildwood" a complex with both a primary and a secondary at a short
> demonstration baseline?
>
> Tim N3QE
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 10:33 AM, paul swed <paulswedb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Bob
> > The system works and they are using the system for various demonstrations
> > to government types. It is indeed Washingtons speed to resolution thats
> > taking the time.
> > So my crystal ball says nothing at all on what and when.
> > But that said the fact that its on for a month lets me check some
> > references.
> > Regards
> > Paul
> > WB8TSL
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 7:33 AM, Bob Camp <kb8tq at n1k.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > Has there been any indication of just what they eventually will be
> doing?
> > > Is this a never ending series of experiments or do they now have plans
> > > to put something more perminanalt on the air?
> > >
> > > Bob
> > >
> > > > On Oct 24, 2016, at 3:23 PM, paul swed <paulswedb at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > The Wildwood, NJ eLoran transmitter will be continuously broadcasting
> > > from
> > > > 0900 (EST) on 21 October 2016 through 1200 (EST) on 22 November 2016.
> > > > Wildwood will be broadcasting as 8970 Master and Secondary most of
> the
> > > time
> > > > but occasionally may operate at other rates.
> > > >
> > > > Regards
> > > > Paul
> > > > WB8TSL
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