[time-nuts] Loran?

[J. L. Trantham]

The Canadian LORAN chains were operating after the US shut theirs down.
When I was flying my plane north of North Carolina, I could pick up the
Canadian chains and my old Northstar M2 LORAN/GPS would be fully functional.
However, since I live in Florida, I removed the Northstar and replaced it
with a Garmin GNS530W.

Are the Canadian chains still up or did they get shut down as well?  Do you
live near Canada?

Joe

-----Original Message-----
From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On
Behalf Of Chris Albertson
Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2010 10:45 PM
To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Loran?


This is a marine navigation unit sold under "West Marine's" own brand
name.    It looks modern and automated.  Has functions on it like
"anchor drift alarm"  Where you fix your location then set a radius and if
the unit moves outside the radius it beeps loudly.  Just what you'd want if
your ship of dragging anchor.  The unit is very small and modern looking.
It is controlled with a keypad and large LCD screen.  Zero analog knobs.

My guess is that this thing wants an active whip antenna of some kind.
There is an BNC on the back.

I don't think this is worth a lot of time, not if the transmitters are
gone.   I thought I read they were going to continue for another 20
years.

On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Magnus Danielson
<magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org> wrote:
> On 12/19/2010 12:46 AM, Chris Albertson wrote:
>>
>> Some one gave me an old Loran receiver.  It fires up, the keypad and 
>> LCD display seem to work but status is always "Searching"
>>
>> Questions:
>> 1) I think there are still Loran transmitters?
>> 2) What does a Loran antenna look like?  A random length of wire 
>> strung up in the attic is doing nothing.
>>
>
> If you are in North America you are out of luck. You *might* pick up 
> on European LORAN-C transmitters.
>
> So, locality first...
>
> THEN we can advice you on what antenna needs you have... and then we 
> also needs to know what LORAN C receiver you have...
>
> Cheers,
> Magnus
>
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Redondo Beach, California

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