FW: Remember LORAN? It may be coming back.

[Richard Spargur]

Interesting, what will they do next? Maybe a sailor standing on the deck with two flags. A camera could still be used to capture the transmission if it was necessary. 

More interesting for me is what is the need for this that something else already in existence can’t be used for except for covert comms.

Richard
K3UI


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From: Nan and Sandy Sanders
Sent: Monday, August 7, 2017 10:46 PM
To: William Fenn; TACOS
Subject: Re: FW: Remember LORAN? It may be coming back.

It looks like Morse code may not be dead in the Navy but with a twist.
    http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/navy-ships/a27391/us-navy-morse-code-software/ 

Celestial Navigation has sort of just come back.
http://www.npr.org/2016/02/22/467210492/u-s-navy-brings-back-navigation-by-the-stars-for-officers 

      Sandy
     WB5MMB


At 07:49 PM 8/7/2017, William Fenn wrote:
>Has anyone thought of what would happen in the 
>event of war?  One of the first things to 
>disappear would be satellites and this lead to 
>ships bumping into each other.  With this in 
>mind “old world methods such as watchers in 
>“Crow’s Nest” and sextants” may become 
>very important” since GPS receivers might not 
>work.  Who knows, we may even need to resurrect 
>radio operators and the Morse code.Â
>
>
>From: Tacos 
>[mailto:tacos-bounces+wfenn4=verizon.net at amrad.org] 
>On Behalf Of Richard O'Neill
>Sent: Monday, August 07, 2017 4:00 PM
>To: tacos at amrad.org
>Subject: Re: Remember LORAN? It may be coming back.
>
>  Apparently not anytime soon.
>
>  "Despite plans to implement eLoran 
> <https://rntfnd.org/wp-content/uploads/NSPD-39-Fact-Sheet.pdf>dating 
> back to the Bush administration in 2004, it has 
> been stymied by a mixture of cost (an expensive 
> network of transmitters that serve only shipping) and political inertia."
>
>  In the meantime we could employ old world 
> methods such as watchers in 'Crow's Nests' and sextants. :-P
>
>Anon
>
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