Sad news.. -----Original Message----- From: time-nuts [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Poul-Henning Kamp Sent: 17 December 2015 10:51 To: time-nuts@febo.com 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. -- 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.