Sorry to hear pictures would be something to see. So slowly but surely loran C in Europe is going away.
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Marco IK1ODO <ik1...@spin-it.com> wrote: > At 17:37 26/07/2011, you wrote: > >> In message >> <20110726173114.**63txv1m944ss0...@webmail.fc.**up.pt<20110726173114.63txv1m944ss0...@webmail.fc.up.pt>>, >> asma...@fc.up.pt >> writes: >> >> >Would someone tell me, please, if the Master, at Sellia Marina, >> >or the Slave X, at Lampedusa, of the 79900 Mediterranean Chain >> >are still in operation. >> >> As far as I know, they are not, and have not been since the USCG >> left them approx 20 years ago. >> > > I confirm by direct experience. I went to Sellia Marina on Dec. 30th, 1997. > The station was almost abandoned, and had been handled to the Italian Coast > Guard since several months. > One of the two 300 kW transmitters had been cannibalized, and the other one > was out of service with a defective cooling system. The antenna mast was in > good shape, and the equipment, including the atomic clocks, was switched > off. I was impressed by the station control computer (a PDP-8). The station > timer was also out of order and needed extensive service. > At the time, the Turkish station was out of service, the mast was down > because of a tornado. A replacement mast, arrived from Japan, was never > erected. The two transmitters in Lampedusa Island were off service, one > cannibalized, in the other a rat exploded into the HV power supply. > The Spanish station in Estartit was closed, and the Italian Coast Guard had > not been able to inspect it. > The Sellia Marina mast has been dismantled since then. I still have the > schematic diagrams of the transmitters, I had to restore them in operation, > but the project was cancelled. The extimated cost of the transmitting tubes > (mainly old glass triodes by ITT), to be purchased to restore the > transmitters and have a reserve for the network, was then approx 1 million > Euro. > > So, R.I.P. chain 7990 :-( > > 73 - Marco IK1ODO > > > ______________________________**_________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/** > mailman/listinfo/time-nuts<https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts> > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.