eLORAN

[joseph at kirtland.com]

Are there any LORAN restrictions still in effect on 160 meters?

Joe, N6DGY


Original email:
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From: fgentges at mindspring.com fgentges at mindspring.com
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 08:41:33 -0400
To: tacos at amrad.org
Subject: Re: eLORAN


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


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