FW: Remember LORAN? It may be coming back.

[William Fenn]

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.  

 

 

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 dating back to the Bush administration in 2004 <https://rntfnd.org/wp-content/uploads/NSPD-39-Fact-Sheet.pdf> , 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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