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Paul, I'm not so sure about a big power bill. The average power of a LORAN transmitter is not high. -John =========== > Chuck > Their interest is indeed a time service as an alternate to GPS. There is > no > intent to re-activate much of the actual chains its not for the old > location service at all. UrsaNav has published several ppts that show what > there interests seem to be. > I think the key business is selling new rcvrs that can take advantage of > the new transfer method. Some of the work they have done shows that > setting > up a transmitter in the mid US has very good coverage but setting up 2 > really does a very fine job. > > But all this said. Its unclear to me as to how the power bill gets paid > every year. > WWVB seems to have the gov paying the bill. And for us east coasters you > don't get what you pay for. Not so sure UrsaNav has that backing. > > But selling rcvrs sure isn't going to pay for that electric bill even if > they are far more then we time-nuts can afford. > So I want to thank UrsaNav for at least putting a compatible signal out > for > the moment. Will enjoy as long as I can. > I actually believe what we are seeing is a tug of war between NIST and > UrsaNav for the actual transmit funding. Neither has a need to support the > past to survive. > Regards > Paul > WB8TSL > > On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 8:56 AM, Chuck Harris <cfhar...@erols.com> wrote: > >> Has anyone thought to ask them what their intentions are? >> >> It would seem to me that if they are interested in re-activating >> enough of the old LORAN-C network to provide time service that they >> might want to talk to folks that used to rely on LORAN-C for time >> service... >> >> -Chuck Harris >> >> >> Stan, W1LE wrote: >> >>> After 11:20 hours still tracking and locked to LORAN. >>> Frequency offset compared to my T'Bolt GPS/DO is -2.5E12. >>> >>> Stan W1LE Cape Cod >>> >>> >>> On 2/4/2013 8:56 PM, paul swed wrote: >>> >>>> We can only dream. But will take what I can get for as long as I can >>>> get >>>> it. It sure in the heck kicks wwvb's capabilities. >>>> Regards >>>> Paul >>>> >>>> On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 6:20 PM, J. Forster <j...@quikus.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> Great. Now if the transmissions continue and the format doesn't >>>> change! >>>>> >>>>> -John >>>>> >>>>> ______________________________**_________________ >>> 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<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. > > _______________________________________________ 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.