[time-nuts] Loran in the US

[J. Forster]

If the old antennas are still in good shape, why not use them?

The post suggesting a LightSquared involvement is interesting.

Suppose LightSquared paid for a LORAN system to eliminate some opposition
to the deployment of their wifi network?

-John

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> Hi
>
> If you are doing a "light footprint" system, why fire up the old heavy
> footprint gear at all?
>
> Bob
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On
> Behalf Of J. Forster
> Sent: Monday, March 05, 2012 10:40 AM
> To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Loran in the US
>
> A "light footprint" LORAN is what I've been suggesting for several days.
>
> As to putting it into private hands, there is a potential for massive
> finmancial fraud in market arbitrage. It was only a couple of weeks ago
> that this made headlines with GPS timing.
>
> -John
>
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>
>> In message <20120305113804.48FC411B9A8 at karen.lavabit.com>, "Charles P.
>> Steinmet
>> z" writes:
>>
>>>Technical merit aside, I doubt there is any chance of getting
>>>regulatory approval for such a system, at least in the US, for
>>>practical and political reasons.
>>
>> Indeed, it's absolutely out of the question, as you well know all
>> our problems these days are there isn't enough God in the constitution
>> or something.
>>
>> Thats why some people in the military is looking into a modern
>> more lightweight version of "Tactical Loran" for use when GPS is jammed.
>>
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