FW: Remember LORAN? It may be coming back.

[Patrick Gray]

    Loran-C was the predecessor to GPS for network timing, used by major
Telecoms Networks as a backup to GPS.

Not just used by sailors or fishermen. The Russians still maintain their
Soviet era Chayka system. I was told by a friend in Alaska that American
commercial fishermen in that region have sourced equipment that runs the
Chayka system.

Pat KF4MTV

On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 9:08 AM, Richard Spargur <k3ui at comcast.net> wrote:

> 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.
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> 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.
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> Richard
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> K3UI
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> *From: *Nan and Sandy Sanders <radiodog77 at pobox.com>
> *Sent: *Monday, August 7, 2017 10:46 PM
> *To: *William Fenn <wfenn4 at verizon.net>; TACOS <tacos at amrad.org>
> *Subject: *Re: FW: Remember LORAN? It may be coming back.
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> It looks like Morse code may not be dead in the Navy but with a twist.
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>     http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/navy-ships/
> a27391/us-navy-morse-code-software/
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> Celestial Navigation has sort of just come back.
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> http://www.npr.org/2016/02/22/467210492/u-s-navy-brings-
> back-navigation-by-the-stars-for-officers
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>       Sandy
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>      WB5MMB
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> At 07:49 PM 8/7/2017, William Fenn wrote:
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> >Has anyone thought of what would happen in the
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> >event of war?  One of the first things to
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> >disappear would be satellites and this lead to
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> >ships bumping into each other.  With this in
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> >mind “old world methods such as watchers in
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> >“Crow’s Nest†and sextants†may become
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> >very important†since GPS receivers might not
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> >work.  Who knows, we may even need to resurrect
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> >radio operators and the Morse code.Â
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> >From: Tacos
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> >[mailto:tacos-bounces+wfenn4=verizon.net at amrad.org]
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> >On Behalf Of Richard O'Neill
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> >Sent: Monday, August 07, 2017 4:00 PM
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> >To: tacos at amrad.org
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> >Subject: Re: Remember LORAN? It may be coming back.
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> >  Apparently not anytime soon.
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> >  "Despite plans to implement eLoran
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> > <https://rntfnd.org/wp-content/uploads/NSPD-39-Fact-Sheet.pdf>dating
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> > back to the Bush administration in 2004, it has
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> > been stymied by a mixture of cost (an expensive
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> > network of transmitters that serve only shipping) and political inertia."
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> >  In the meantime we could employ old world
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> > methods such as watchers in 'Crow's Nests' and sextants. :-P
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> >Anon
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