Re: [time-nuts] Loran Europe Lessay seems to be back on air?

2016-01-04 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <576b98.2a1f5672.43bc0...@aol.com>, GandalfG8--- via time-nuts writes: >As of 1725, 4th January, Lessay seems to have been transmitting again for >at least 30 minutes, and showing the same or a slightly stronger signal >here on the west coast of Scotland than Anthorn.

Re: [time-nuts] Loran Europe Lessay seems to be back on air?

2016-01-04 Thread GandalfG8--- via time-nuts
I'm pretty sure it was Anthorn. It was showing as the Master and Y stations, and the individual signal levels as indicated on an FS700 were within 1dB, which would seem a reasonable tolerance on equal signal levels given that the FS700 only reports to the nearest 1dB anyway:-) Still just

Re: [time-nuts] Loran Europe Lessay seems to be back on air?

2016-01-04 Thread paul swed
I somewhat may guess its Anthorn. My 2 cents from across the ocean. The Brits are pretty good about shutting things down. The fact that Anthorn stayed operational was pretty odd even if you thought the new years parties got in the way. Lets face it drink beer with friends or shut a transmitter in

Re: [time-nuts] Loran Europe Lessay seems to be back on air?

2016-01-04 Thread GandalfG8--- via time-nuts
>As of 1725, 4th January, Lessay seems to have been transmitting again for >at least 30 minutes, and showing the same or a slightly stronger signal >here on the west coast of Scotland than Anthorn. Are you sure it's not UK trying to rig something up for their eLoran trials ?

Re: [time-nuts] Loran Europe Lessay seems to be back on air?

2016-01-04 Thread GandalfG8--- via time-nuts
This could just be wishful thinking but I'm still hoping it might stay for some time yet. The UK General Lighthouse Authorities have been running their eLoran trials since 2007 so perhaps they found sufficient incentive within that time to keep going. Time will tell, but as you suggest

Re: [time-nuts] Loran Europe Lessay seems to be back on air?

2016-01-04 Thread paul swed
Nigel In the US at least for the eastern half of the country the test station has been on lately for several weeks at a shot. Not exactly the old days but a great resource besides GPS to check my various references and note offsets and such using the austrons and SRS. I would agree 1 db difference

Re: [time-nuts] Loran Europe Lessay seems to be back on air?

2016-01-04 Thread paul swed
But speculations half the fun. Interesting chart. Regards Paul WB8TSL On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 7:03 PM, Pieter-Tjerk de Boer wrote: > > On http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/fullday/ , one can see that the extra > LORAN signal has been on the air roughly from 16:26 till

Re: [time-nuts] Loran Europe Lessay seems to be back on air?

2016-01-04 Thread Pieter-Tjerk de Boer
On http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/fullday/ , one can see that the extra LORAN signal has been on the air roughly from 16:26 till 17:30 UTC: the waterfall clearly shows that the total received power around 100 kHz was higher during that time. One also sees that just _before_ the start of the

Re: [time-nuts] (OT) Looking for a paper from NAV01 (RIN International Conference on Navigation)

2016-01-04 Thread Attila Kinali
On Sat, 2 Jan 2016 11:11:50 + Philip Pemberton wrote: > I've even contacted the RIN, but -- from what they told me -- they don't > archive their journals (that's under the remit of Cambridge University > Press) or conference proceedings... That's weird. The RIN

Re: [time-nuts] Loran Europe Lessay seems to be back on air?

2016-01-04 Thread Alan Melia
If I remember correctly the GLA(Trinity Ho.) has a contact with Babcock who run Anthorn which goes through to 2019 or 2020. The notice to mariners did not mention Anthorn but it did request that nav. receivers be turned off. If TH terminate that contact they will presumably have to pay Babcock

[time-nuts] Loran Europe Lessay seems to be back on air?

2016-01-04 Thread GandalfG8--- via time-nuts
As of 1725, 4th January, Lessay seems to have been transmitting again for at least 30 minutes, and showing the same or a slightly stronger signal here on the west coast of Scotland than Anthorn. I've never seen this before, Anthorn is much closer and has always been a stronger signal so

Re: [time-nuts] Loran Europe Lessay seems to be back on air?

2016-01-04 Thread GandalfG8--- via time-nuts
Definitely something unusual going on, overall signal level as monitored on an SDR is significantly lower than normal and seems to have dropped out from time to time, and as of approximately 1750 the master signal is no longer present. Regards Nigel GM8PZR In a message dated