[time-nuts] LORAN C shutdown

paul swed paulswedb at gmail.com
Mon Nov 9 22:48:36 UTC 2009


My impression is eLORAN is off the table. Since DHS is letting it go also.
Sextant, compass, and a good chronometer.

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Magnus Danielson <magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org
> wrote:

> Eric Garner wrote:
>
>> So what are ships/planes supposed to if/when satellite navigation
>> becomes unreliable or unavailable ?
>>
>
> But that doesn't happend, right? *ironic tone*
>
> With eLoran modernisation, there would be some chance of survival, but
> obviously focus is on stripping down the suit if it not can be motivated
> properly.
>
> Let's fact it, there will be a shut-down of all systems eventually.
>
> GPS is taking the approach of rolling in changes and cut signals
> _eventually_. But GPS is young compared to the Loran history.
>
> As for not being reliable or available, GPS works too well for people
> (except US and other nations military branches) to look serious at
> countermeasures like alternative signals or even hold-over properties or
> monitoring the existence and reliability of the signal.
>
> I think Loran-C receivers isn't as common in say telecom or other systems
> as they used to be.
>
> Cheers,
> Magnus
>
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