[time-nuts] LORAN C simulator operational

paul swed paulswedb at gmail.com
Wed Dec 9 00:59:35 UTC 2009


Hmmm I tried that on my 2100f to see if I could get skywave Europe LORAN.
May have to try it again.
Thanks for the tip.

On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 6:52 PM, J. Forster <jfor at quik.com> wrote:

> I just received this good news from Poul-Henning Kamp:
>
> =====
>
> If you want the GRIs in microseconds, add a zero:
>
> 67310, 74990, 70010 and 90070
>
> My 2100F had no issues with them.
>
> =====
>
> That's great news for me, if the signal is strong enough.
>
> -John
>
> =========================
>
>
>
> > 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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