Re: [time-nuts] LORAN C 89700 dropped carriers at 1615 EST after a solid 3 days

2012-03-23 Thread Bill Riches
] On Behalf Of paul swed Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2012 4:49 PM To: Time-nuts; paul swed Subject: [time-nuts] LORAN C 89700 dropped carriers at 1615 EST after a solid 3 days Best run yet, 3 solid days of operation and I was able to log various local references as compared to a HP3801 and Tbolt. Only 2

Re: [time-nuts] LORAN C 89700 dropped carriers at 1615 EST after a solid 3 days

2012-03-23 Thread paul swed
] LORAN C 89700 dropped carriers at 1615 EST after a solid 3 days Best run yet, 3 solid days of operation and I was able to log various local references as compared to a HP3801 and Tbolt. Only 2 stations generally on the air. 89700 Master and X, but an unidentified one came up for a short bit

[time-nuts] LORAN C 89700 dropped carriers at 1615 EST after a solid 3 days

2012-03-22 Thread paul swed
Best run yet, 3 solid days of operation and I was able to log various local references as compared to a HP3801 and Tbolt. Only 2 stations generally on the air. 89700 Master and X, but an unidentified one came up for a short bit in the 4th position Regards Paul WB8TSL

Re: [time-nuts] LORAN C 89700 dropped carriers at 1615 EST after a solid 3 days

2012-03-22 Thread paul swed
More interestingly the FS700 reacquired automatically! Never seen that before. On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 4:53 PM, paul swed paulsw...@gmail.com wrote: Interesting just fired up a general coverage rcvr and LORAN C can be heard but not that strong. It does appear to be 89700 still as the austron

Re: [time-nuts] LORAN C 89700 dropped carriers at 1615 EST after a solid 3 days

2012-03-22 Thread Stan, W1LE
Interesting. My FS700 also automatically reacquired. But the Austron 2100 and 2100F had to be manually reset to acquire again, after the short outage. How did you determine there was a short lived other station in the chain ? Other than manually going to the screen that shows the additional

Re: [time-nuts] LORAN C 89700 dropped carriers at 1615 EST after a solid 3 days

2012-03-22 Thread paul swed
My experience is you always have to reacquire on the austrons 2100 series. I think its either the period they were made or a choice, that you reacquire on loss. It was pure luck I caught the additional station by logging the screen info. I have mentioned several times I have not heard the other

Re: [time-nuts] LORAN C 89700 dropped carriers at 1615 EST after a solid 3 days

2012-03-22 Thread J. Forster
On the 2100Fs it reacquires and locks, if the power has not been interrupted, but you have to manually set thye Mode to compute the frequency error. Otherwise, it just indicated microseconds. A power failure and you have to reenter tye GRI. -John == My experience is you always

Re: [time-nuts] LORAN C 89700 dropped carriers at 1615 EST after a solid 3 days

2012-03-22 Thread J. Forster
On the 2100Fs it reacquires and locks, if the power has not been interrupted, but you have to manually set thye Mode to compute the frequency error. Otherwise, it just indicated microseconds. A power failure and you have to reenter tye GRI. -John == My experience is you always

Re: [time-nuts] LORAN C 89700 dropped carriers at 1615 EST after a solid 3 days

2012-03-22 Thread paul swed
Thanks John I'll have to see what I can do on the tracking. At 0037 EST the stations dropped while I was listening and watching. 100KC is totally quite right now. Regards Paul On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 5:50 PM, J. Forster j...@quikus.com wrote: On the 2100Fs it reacquires and locks, if the power

Re: [time-nuts] LORAN C 89700 dropped carriers at 1615 EST after a solid 3 days

2012-03-22 Thread Don Henderickx
On 3/22/2012 7:41 PM, paul swed wrote: Thanks John I'll have to see what I can do on the tracking. At 0037 EST the stations dropped while I was listening and watching. 100KC is totally quite right now. Regards Paul My 2100r continues to receive in north west Illinois.I assume this is the Dana