[time-nuts] LORAN C simulator operational
J. Forster
jfor at quik.com
Tue Dec 8 23:52:48 UTC 2009
I just received this good news from Poul-Henning Kamp:
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If you want the GRIs in microseconds, add a zero:
67310, 74990, 70010 and 90070
My 2100F had no issues with them.
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That's great news for me, if the signal is strong enough.
-John
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> 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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