[time-nuts] End of Loran-C in Europe confirmed.

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

I've spent some time tracking this down, but it looks like
all Loran-C in Europe shuts down on new-years eve.

The only station I have not found official confirmation for is Sylt,
but France, Norway, Denmark and UK have all officially announced
shut-down of their stations.

It seems that they have also agreed to not dismantle anything until
2017 "In case something political happens".

Poul-Henning

PS: I havn't checked recently if the Russian Chayka still transmits,
they've never been usable for me because the 8000µs GRI gets trashed
by any [V]LF transmitter on a integral kHz frequency, which is
pretty much all of them.

PPS: During my research I noticed that the guy who comes closest
to being the inventor of Loran-[ABCF] and OMEGA, John *Alvin* Pierce,
doesn't even have a Wikipedia page.

Somebody with more time than me should rectify that.

Here, in his own words, is the story of how US military saw the
light in radio-navigation:

        http://phk.freebsd.dk/misc/jack_pierce.html#spring

The full memoir is 1st. class nerd-reading.

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