A "light footprint" LORAN is what I've been suggesting for several days.
As to putting it into private hands, there is a potential for massive finmancial fraud in market arbitrage. It was only a couple of weeks ago that this made headlines with GPS timing. -John ============= > In message <20120305113804.48fc411b...@karen.lavabit.com>, "Charles P. > Steinmet > z" writes: > >>Technical merit aside, I doubt there is any chance of getting >>regulatory approval for such a system, at least in the US, for >>practical and political reasons. > > Indeed, it's absolutely out of the question, as you well know all > our problems these days are there isn't enough God in the constitution > or something. > > Thats why some people in the military is looking into a modern > more lightweight version of "Tactical Loran" for use when GPS is jammed. > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 > p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 > FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe > Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by > incompetence. > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > > _______________________________________________ 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.
