[time-nuts] LORAN C simulator operational

[paul swed]

Thanks Peter,
I will hope that it evolves to eloran but for .0002% of the budget we will
shut it down.
That said if you want to use your Austrons in North America I have an answer
for you.
There is the suggestion of at least on the eastcoast using Europe. But thats
skywave and my research indicates thats about 1 X e-10. Also the fact that
the Europe chains use a finer GRI rate. Hard to say if the Austrons will
work.
Back to tinkering
Regards

On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Peter Vince <pvince at theiet.org> wrote:

> Hello Paul,
>
>     I have just been to the British National Physical Laboratory's
> bi-annual "Time and Frequency" meeting in London, and gained the
> strong impression that LORAN was far from dead.  Apparently there was
> a meeting in Prague recently, with Britain, France, and Norway all
> behind eLoran, and Norway apparently has a mutual operability
> agreement with Russia for their equivalent ("Chayka"?).  Certainly the
> British transmitter has at least another 8 years to go on their
> initial ten-year contract.  Despite recent pessimism on here from some
> US members recently, I gained the strong impression today that the
> annual $36 million operating cost was frankly such a drop in the ocean
> (pardon the pun) that they would likely finance eLoran somehow, if not
> by the current means.  And I seem to remember we went around this
> scare story last year, and I was confused by the apparent will to
> close down Loran-C, but introduce eLoran - as if they were two
> different systems, whereas the latter is just an upgrade on the
> former.  Could this be politicians and accountants double-talk?
>
>     It was further suggested today that despite the popularity of
> GPS-World, www.pnt.org (a US government web site) was likely a more
> reliable source of information.  So, don't throw out all your Austron
> 2100's yet - all is not yet lost!
>
>     Regards,
>
>          Peter Vince  (London, England)
>
> (Can I just clarify: the opinions above are mine, obtained from the
> floor of the meeting today, and don't represent the official view of
> NPL!)
>
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