[time-nuts] The Demise of LORAN (was Re: Reference oscillator accuracy)

[Magnus Danielson]

Francesco Ledda wrote:
> The bottom line is simple: the military don't need it, the FAA see no value
> in it; the avionics industry has discontinued the manufacturing of LORAN
> receivers years ago, the General Aviation community has bigger fish to fry
> (fight user fees); the Europen talked in the past about using LORAN for
> redundancy purposes, but never issued any concrete plans or requisitions.
> 
> For all above reasons, LORAN is going to go.

The time for cutting the service will come eventually. While it has 
serviced us well, the use is not as heavy as previous years and it has 
essentially been replaced by GPS. It's sad to see it go, but in times 
when budget is tought good old systems gets killed. Eventually they need 
to. For those only having LORAN-C, the investment into a GPS receiver 
should not be too steep.

Cheers,
Magnus