Sad news..
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From: time-nuts [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Poul-Henning
Kamp
Sent: 17 December 2015 10:51
To: [email protected]
Subject: [time-nuts] End of Loran-C in Europe confirmed.
I've spent some time tracking this down, but it looks like all Loran-C in
Europe shuts down on new-years eve.
The only station I have not found official confirmation for is Sylt, but
France, Norway, Denmark and UK have all officially announced shut-down of their
stations.
It seems that they have also agreed to not dismantle anything until
2017 "In case something political happens".
Poul-Henning
PS: I havn't checked recently if the Russian Chayka still transmits, they've
never been usable for me because the 8000µs GRI gets trashed by any [V]LF
transmitter on a integral kHz frequency, which is pretty much all of them.
PPS: During my research I noticed that the guy who comes closest to being the
inventor of Loran-[ABCF] and OMEGA, John *Alvin* Pierce, doesn't even have a
Wikipedia page.
Somebody with more time than me should rectify that.
Here, in his own words, is the story of how US military saw the light in
radio-navigation:
http://phk.freebsd.dk/misc/jack_pierce.html#spring
The full memoir is 1st. class nerd-reading.
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