[time-nuts] Any other useful purpose for Austron 2100F or SRS FS700 receivers in US

paul swed paulswedb at gmail.com
Sun Jul 12 15:08:24 EDT 2015


Magnus
I use a 420 ohm resistor to make FS700 happy. I have a LORAN C whip antenna
and preamp that then feeds a distribution amplifier for the 4 Loran C
rcvrs.
The loran C simulator lives in the same box and can feed the rcvrs also.
Regards
Paul
WB8TSL

On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 11:10 AM, Magnus Danielson <
magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> For the USA and Canada, currently LORAN-C is history.
>
> However, LORAN-C signals is still relatively well know and eLoran is a
> backward compatible change for which there already is a market, so that is
> good.
>
> I think I recall another digital signal being discussed as a side-band,
> which I also think I saw some specs on in an article, and it looked
> interesting. We did discuss it on the list many moons ago, maybe someone
> recalls and can dig up the references.
>
> I have a FS700 for which I currently does not have a proper antenna. I
> coiled up some twisted pair, but it complains about no external LNA, so I
> will have to create something which acts as LNA and essentially forms the
> same DC load to the FS700. I have the SC-10 OCXO in mine, and as I recall,
> I think I saw GRI 80000 from russia. It would be nice to run it for a while.
>
> Cheers,
> Magnus
>
> On 07/12/2015 01:45 PM, Bob Camp wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> So far, all of the eLoran stuff has been backwards compatible with
>> Loran-C. If the signal turns into a
>> “time signal only” in the future, that could change. Since the only
>> signals that have been put on the air
>> have been Loran-C compatible, any change is pure speculation at this
>> point. Any signal change would have
>> to either cause no harm to Loran-C navigation *or* go on the air after
>> Loran-C navigation was history.
>>
>> Bob
>>
>>
>>
>>  On Jul 11, 2015, at 8:15 PM, D W <watsondaniel3 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I saw in an article that there is an eLoran site online in NJ. Is that
>>> true? And if so, is there any backwards compatibility for the old Loran-C
>>> units?
>>>
>>> Dan
>>>
>>>
>>>  On Jul 11, 2015, at 8:14 AM, James Robbins <jsrobbins at earthlink.net>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone know of any other genuinely useful purpose to which the
>>>> Austron 2100F, SRS FS700, etc receivers can be put in the US since the
>>>> demise of Loran?  Inquiring minds would like to know.  Jim Robbins, N1JR
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