Already been done, and patented, without adding pulses to existing AM stations.
-John ============== > The best and by far lowest cost solution is to pay TV stations and > maybe AM broadcast stations to add a timing pulse a few times per > second. No transmitters to build. The receivers would be more > complete but that is OK in 2012. In the "old days" it was to > expensive to put a complex computer inside a radio but now that is > routine. So I can imagine a receivers that can listen to 20 or 30 > broadcast stations, look of the latitude and longitude of each one and > compute a best fit to the delays. Actually that is how GPS works but > only in L1 > > Traditionally the main problem with using comercail radios for > navigation has been then they don't issue a station ID frequenty > enough so you have to listen for a long time to know what station > you've tuned. But radio with a computer inside would know the > station by it's frequency and the approx. location of the receiver. > > > On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Charles P. Steinmetz > <charles_steinm...@lavabit.com> wrote: >> Antonio wrote: >> >>> Now, that the Loran C ressurection seems to be probable >> >> >> I suspect that it is not yet anywhere near probable -- more likely there >> is >> now some remote possibility of a ressurection if many difficult >> preconditions (including Congressional action) are all met. >> >> Best regards, >> >> Charles >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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. > > > > -- > > Chris Albertson > Redondo Beach, California > > _______________________________________________ > 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.
