<div dir="ltr"> Good article but it leaves out some minor details. <div><br></div><div>When the US Coast Guard decommissioned the last remaining Continental and Alaskan Loran-C Chains, they "downed" all of the transmitter towers. </div><div><br></div><div>Think it's expensive erecting a 2000 foot guyed tower stateside, try doing it in Alaska, and in the Aleutians where there is a very narrow season for conducting construction.</div><div><br></div><div>When the US Coast Guard dissolved their LORAN networks they were in the midst of eLORAN R&D which would have improved accuracy and automated many of the system monitoring processes. This has also slowed down the implementation of the FAA's NEXGEN program for modernizing the US Airways as Loran-C was considered a backup to GPS.</div><div><br></div><div>It will be several billion dollars as well as litigation to wrest way a few of the sites from US Fish and Wildlife as those islands in the Pacific and the Alaskan chains are uninhabited.</div><div><br></div><div>This will be fun to watch.</div><div><br></div><div>Pat KF4MTV </div><div><br></div><div>PS Hey, bring back Omega! We'll call it eOmega and we can situate three of the seven radio sites in politcal and economically compromised nations, no shortage of those these days!</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 3:19 PM, RICHARD BARTH <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:w3hwn@comcast.net" target="_blank">w3hwn@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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