eLORAN

[fgentges at mindspring.com]

When I worked for the US Navy, I was the navigation policy officer and I 
was a strong advocate of LORAN C as a backup for GPS.  We had an 
installed base of modern LORAN C receivers on our ships and the Coast 
Guard had the installed base of LORAN C transmitters.  All we had to do 
was the cost of maintenance and operation, both which were not that great.

We would hear of shutting down LORAN C from time to time but the US Navy 
would not go along with that.

Since that the Coast Guard decided to shut down the LORAN C transmitter 
sites.  That was a bad policy decision.

Now the US Navy will have to use celestial navigation as back up.  They 
can probably do it but the loss of LORAN C makes it a speciality of a 
limited group of naval officers trained at the Naval Academy.

Frank K0BRA


On 10/31/2014 04:33 AM, Philip Miller Tate wrote:
> I thought I'd get this in quick, before André beat me to it:
>
> www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-29758872
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> Phil M1GWZ
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