[time-nuts] eLORAN to turn on next week for a test

2020-02-07 Thread paul swed
Hello fellow time-nuts. Just found out eLORAN will be on next week or so. Bringing Wildwood back on air the week of February 17th and then again the week of March 16th for a demonstration of UTC time synchronization. We’ll be broadcasting as 8970M and 8970X from Wildwood during those times. So if y

Re: [time-nuts] eLORAN to turn on next week for a test

2020-02-07 Thread Scott McGrath
I hope we finally light up eLoran and soon not only is it needed for time transfer. As a pilot there have been way too many GPS outages and the ADS-B peer to peer system is totally dependent upon precision positioning signals from GPS. It’s unsettling to be doing a GPS approach only to be hal

Re: [time-nuts] eLORAN to turn on next week for a test

2020-02-07 Thread paul swed
Well the government has funded 2 tests. So they are looking. But we will end up with what makes someone the most money. The alternative seems to be the Iridium satellite constellation. That way we have 2 different satellite based solutions. H I don't see any problem with that at all. Korea is i