[time-nuts] Loran C returning to a station near you...

paul swed paulswedb at gmail.com
Tue Jul 14 16:49:12 EDT 2015


Poul-Henning,
The reason to stay with the LORAN C style pulses is very very simple. It
allows our time-nuts Austrons and SRS to work. Its the only way I get any
of my tax dollars back. :-)
The good news is no official government person reads time-nuts.
Regards
Paul


On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 12:16 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk>
wrote:

> --------
> In message <55A4AC81.1030100 at rubidium.dyndns.org>, Magnus Danielson
> writes:
>
> >The safety is
> >relative, in that it takes quite a bit of more infrastructure compared
> >to the jamming of GPS, and that lies in the wavelength of the signal
> >than anything else.
>
> If the goal is a reliable backup for GPS, there are smarter ways to
> use the 100kHz band than Loran-C pulses, and there really isn't much
> reason to stay compatible with Loran-C receivers.
>
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