Remember LORAN? It may be coming back.

[Patrick Gray]

       Good article but it leaves out some minor details.

When the US Coast Guard decommissioned the last remaining Continental and
Alaskan Loran-C Chains, they "downed" all of the transmitter towers.

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.

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.

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.

This will be fun to watch.

Pat KF4MTV

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!

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