[time-nuts] Re: UTC Backbone in Europe

[W3AB]

As y'all know, GPS jamming is easy. We need to have an alternative.

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On Nov 19, 2024, 15:52, at 15:52, Poul-Henning Kamp via time-nuts <time-nuts at lists.febo.com> wrote:
>Magnus Danielson writes:
>
>> Loran is falling more and more behind in focus. By not speaking about
>
>> it, it becomes less of an alternative. The white rabbit ate it with a
>
>> cup of tea.
>
>Not talking about Loran got serious back when the first draft European
>Radio Navigation Plan concluded that spending less than 10% of the
>money on Loran-C would provide 40% of the possible benefits.
>
>That was not the answer EC needed to justify pouring tons of tax-payer
>money into Galileo.
>
>A significant part of the 40% were that Loran-C works almost
>everywhere, including remote islands, sea-marks - places the White
>rabit will never reach.
>
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