[time-nuts] Loran in the US

[Bob Camp]

Hi

If you are doing a "light footprint" system, why fire up the old heavy
footprint gear at all?

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On
Behalf Of J. Forster
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2012 10:40 AM
To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Loran in the US

A "light footprint" LORAN is what I've been suggesting for several days.

As to putting it into private hands, there is a potential for massive
finmancial fraud in market arbitrage. It was only a couple of weeks ago
that this made headlines with GPS timing.

-John

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> In message <20120305113804.48FC411B9A8 at karen.lavabit.com>, "Charles P.
> Steinmet
> z" writes:
>
>>Technical merit aside, I doubt there is any chance of getting
>>regulatory approval for such a system, at least in the US, for
>>practical and political reasons.
>
> Indeed, it's absolutely out of the question, as you well know all
> our problems these days are there isn't enough God in the constitution
> or something.
>
> Thats why some people in the military is looking into a modern
> more lightweight version of "Tactical Loran" for use when GPS is jammed.
>
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