The Canadian and USA east coast and midwest systems were shut down in
February; the far-west Canadian and Alaskan systems just shut down a week or
two ago. The Far East Russian remaining chain (GRI 5980) is still in
operation. I get it fading in every morning for 30-60 minutes, otherwise
100kc is blissfully silent. The master station at George, WA was my
strongest radio signal, and I had to use a homebrew Loran notch filter to
stop the intermod in my radios. I'm thrilled that they are finally silent.
73,
Steve
NE Oregon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick Griffith" <[email protected]>
To: "IRCA" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 10:38 AM
Subject: Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] LORAN-C 100 kHz Nantucket
The Loran-C decommissioning has been on and off again so many times that
it is difficult to keep up with. Homeland Security wanted to keep the
system and upgrade it. The House version of the 2010 Homeland Security
Appropriations Act funded the Loran-C system at $36 million and requires
the Coast Guard to submit a plan for upgrading the system to eLoran, as a
long-term backup for GPS. However, I read that the US Loran system was
shut down on February 8, 2010 and the Russian and Canadian segments
followed shortly thereafter. There are some photos from my 2001 visit to
the Gillette WY site on one of my my web sites at
community.webtv.net/AM-DXer/
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 13:50:22 +0000
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] LORAN-C 100 kHz Nantucket
I thought it was pretty widely publicized in the past few months
that Loran-C has been decommissioned and all the sites in US and
later Canada to be closed. There was a great video on the web of a
1350-foot loran tower at a site in Alaska being dynamited. They got
it to collapse almost vertically.
- Bob
---- Saul DX <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hmmm,
> I wonder about LORAN in eastern Canada....
> > Per tip from Sylvain Naud in Quebec on another list, I have just
> > noted
> > that the LORAN-C transmitter on 100 kHz on Nantucket is silent! This
> > is
> > big news here as the harmonics from this transmitter have been a pest
> > on
> > both MW & LW for many decades. I hope the silence is permanent!
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