[time-nuts] Old Loran

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Sun Jul 13 15:22:00 EDT 2008


In message <20080713.211304.415917433278919178.cfmd at bredband.net>, Magnus Danie
lson writes:

>Considering the modernizing of LORAN-C with data subcarrier and modernized
>transmitter equipment it could be argued that it to some degree is a LORAN-D.

No, Loran-D was a (tactical ?) system with 16 pulses instead of 8 for improved
S/N ratio.

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