[time-nuts] Loran in the US

[J. Forster]

Already been done, and patented, without adding pulses to  existing AM
stations.

-John

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> The best and by far lowest cost solution is to pay TV stations and
> maybe AM broadcast stations to add a timing pulse a few times per
> second.  No transmitters to build.   The receivers would be more
> complete but that is OK in 2012.   In the "old days"  it was to
> expensive to put a complex computer inside a radio but now that is
> routine.    So I can imagine a receivers that can listen to 20 or 30
> broadcast stations, look of the latitude and longitude of each one and
> compute a best fit to the delays.   Actually that is how GPS works but
> only in L1
>
> Traditionally the main problem with using comercail radios for
> navigation has been then they don't issue a station ID frequenty
> enough so you have to listen for a long time to know what station
> you've tuned.   But radio with a computer inside would know the
> station by it's frequency and the approx. location of the receiver.
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Charles P. Steinmetz
> <charles_steinmetz at lavabit.com> 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.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Charles
>>
>>
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>
> Chris Albertson
> Redondo Beach, California
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