[time-nuts] Loran C sounds

[paul swed]

Unfortunately I had to travel during the shutdown. I had wanted to listen.
But I fired up the austron and 59300 locks (Canadian LORAN)
Like you, I have only ever heard dual rate. Now its a steady patter until
Sept/Oct when even that will go away.

On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 7:47 PM, Rich and Marcia Putz <rputz at bnin.net> wrote:

> Hi all;
> Just an aside, after hearing dual rated Lorsta Dana for the last 25 years,
> it is interesting to now hear a single rated chain. Rather than the
> syncopated clatter of Dana, now just a smooth pitter! The east coast
> Canadian chain is much weaker here in northern Indiana than Dana (about 125
> miles air) but still quite copyable on my IC-725.
> As far as useability at this point, while Dana was still on I switched my
> 2100F over to GRI 5930 and it only took about 1/2 hour to be locked and
> start reading my Austron 1250 frequency numbers. I get my main frequency
> reference from a TAPR T-bolt, but the Austron 2100F was a fun experiment. I
> guess the next Loran adventure can be DXing chains.
> Regards; Rich
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