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!
Marc
Hmmm,
I wonder about LORAN in eastern Canada
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Subject: [IRCA] LORAN-C 100 kHz Nantucket
Per tip from Sylvain Naud in Quebec on another list, I
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.
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
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
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Looks good Todd. Test came thru here in the chilly fog belt of
western S.F.
Don
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Your test came through with text Test - in case you want to know what was
seen by others...
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:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt
:Issued: 2010 Aug 11 1806 UTC
# Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center
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# Geophysical Alert Message
#
Solar-terrestrial indices for 10 August follow.
Solar flux 84 and mid-latitude A-index 6.
The
:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt
:Issued: 2010 Aug 12 0006 UTC
# Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center
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# Geophysical Alert Message
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Solar-terrestrial indices for 11 August follow.
Solar flux 86 and mid-latitude A-index 11.
The
I believe this is the video Bob is talking about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zqj1hy9NS8
Pretty impressive. I wouldn't want to be near some of those cameras
Bruce
rfoxw...@tampabay.rr.com wrote:
I thought it was pretty widely publicized in the past few months
that Loran-C has been
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