[time-nuts] Loran in the US

[J. Forster]

Look at it from a politician's point of view:

Would you really want to admit that your government screwed up and
destroyed a working, but old, system, and now you find you need it as a
backup to GPS?

Or, would you rather build a shiney, new, "state of the art" system, which
just happend to be compatible with legacy systems that many people have,
but offers "enhanced" bells and whistles?

Or, would you prefer to do nothing, although the problem is widely known,
and then be hung when a disaster strikes?

-John

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> Hi
>
> The gotcha with a non compatible coding is cross chain interference. My
> guess is that those who are currently running Loran-C would be a bit
> bothered if the "new" system nuked there ability to navigate any time
> skywave propigation was present. The current coding and repetition rates
> took a while to work out. It would be much easier to enhance the old US
> chain rates than to do something entirely new.
>
> As I said before - this could indeed be wishful thinking on my part.  I
> have yet to see anything in print describing what the compelling reason
> for firing all this up actually is. Obviously the vendors want to sell
> gear, past that not very clear at all...
>
> Bob
>
> On Mar 4, 2012, at 4:34 PM, Magnus Danielson wrote:
>
>> On 03/04/2012 10:02 PM, Charles P. Steinmetz wrote:
>>> Antonio wrote:
>>>
>>>> Now, that the Loran C ressurection seems to be probable
>>>
>>> I suspect that it is not yet anywhere near probable -- more likely
>>> there
>>> is now some remote possibility of a ressurection if many difficult
>>> preconditions (including Congressional action) are all met.
>>
>> Rebuilding the network and finance the cost of running it will be a
>> challenge. This is why tearing down the old network was such a waste of
>> money. If they seriously considers it, maybe they have learned a hard
>> lesson and at least considers it and is ready to bite the bullet.
>>
>> A key worry would be if they chose to use a non-compatible coding such
>> that existing Loran-C equipment needs to be scrapped anyway.
>>
>> It would be interesting to see how it plays out.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Magnus
>>
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