[time-nuts] eLoran

[Scott McGrath]

Lit up the Austron Monitor And the 117A looking forward to AOS

Content by Scott
Typos by Siri

> On Feb 10, 2020, at 9:56 AM, paul swed <paulswedb at gmail.com> wrote:
> 

Well good news on the old LORAN C receivers all are fine. Turned out I had
a single channel driver bad in the distribution amplifier. Simply used
another output. Preamp is good also.
Ready for next week and warming up the Cesiums for a check with a real
reference. Not that messy GPS stuff. Humor intended.
Regards
Paul
WB8TSL

> On Sat, Feb 8, 2020 at 5:55 PM paul swed <paulswedb at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> That really is exciting. Hmmmm hope the testing goes well.
> A comment. When ursanav was heavily testing 2013 region I had one of there
> stations here along with a HP5071 Cesium. They obtained data, I obtained
> serious fun.
> But what is very interesting is the LORAN antenna is no larger than some
> of the old GPS cone shape antennas.
> It was not fed with coax but 2 X twisted  shielded pair. The antenna was
> active. With two elements. The receiver was a 1RU box with a lot of space
> in it. All processing was done digitally. This solution along with the
> eLORAN signal could easily lock within cement and steel office buildings as
> tested and demonstrated. With todays ever more powerful processing the core
> might be the size of a cigarette pack as a guess.
> Back in the archives one of the Time-nuts had created a DSP LORAN
> receiver. Its fair to say that solution might be reused with the new signal.
> Regards
> Paul
> WB8TSL
> 
>> On Sat, Feb 8, 2020 at 4:20 PM Dave Hartzell <hartzell at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Bob-
>> 
>> Is the van still open to viewing?  I'm in Boulder as well, must be at
>> NIST?
>> 
>> Dave
>> 
>>> On Sat, Feb 8, 2020 at 2:07 PM Bob Martin <aphid1 at comcast.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Friday I was given a tour of a van that is
>>> being outfitted to monitor eLoran signals.
>>> Pretty exciting.
>>> 
>>> Bob
>>> Boulder,CO
>>> 
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