[time-nuts] Loran C returning to a station near you...

[Tim Shoppa]

How much money was saved by not sending NIST time codes over GOES
satellites? I'm sure that was much less than $36M/year to continue,
probably not even 1% of that.

I'm strongly for high diversity in time distribution. GPS is great, but
putting all our eggs in the GPS basket seems very unwise. At the moment I
have GPS, CHU, WWV, and WWVB, but more diversity would be better, and I
hope I can add some variant of LORAN back to the list soon.

Tim N3QE

On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 9:07 AM, paul swed <paulswedb at gmail.com> wrote:

> Skip
> It certainly keeps trying to return. It will not be the navigation system
> formerly known as Loran C (Wasn't that also some singer?) it will be
> eLoran. Most eLORAN systems add an additional pulse for data. They stick
> somewhat to the old format to avoid possible interference with operating
> systems in Europe.
> But it seems in general LORAN is one big question.
> I know we shut down LORAN C to save $36M/year. A drop in the bucket.
> Regards
> Paul
> WB8TSL
>
> On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 10:56 PM, skipp Isaham via time-nuts <
> time-nuts at febo.com> wrote:
>
> > > Does anyone know of any other genuinely useful purpose to which the
> > > Austron 2100F, SRS FS700, etc receivers can be put in the US since the
> > > demise of Loran?
> >
> > I've heard Loran C in some form will be returning.  GPS is not jam proof
> > and that
> > seems to have caught the attention of our government. Although some
> > locations
> > have already been dismantled to some large degree, a "hold that tiger"
> has
> > been
> > issued as the wheels have started to turn backwards and Loran C starts to
> > make
> > a comeback.
> > cheers,
> > skipp
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