To anybody else attempting to use Loran-C from Anthorn in the UK for timing
or frequency calibration purposes, I have just found out the hard way
that it's scheduled to be off air every day from today until 6th April
inclusive between the hours of 0700 and 1900 UTC :-(
Other stations in the
EB4APL wrote:
A word of caution here: Don't trust Google maps coordinates for any
technical / serious work, they can have errors in the 100´s meter
class. And also don't use the copyright date of the maps and images as
a time reference, they normally are older than that. If you live in an
a
A word of caution here: Don't trust Google maps coordinates for any
technical / serious work, they can have errors in the 100´s meter
class. And also don't use the copyright date of the maps and images as
a time reference, they normally are older than that. If you live in an
area under urban
note that at 54,9 degrees, one least significant decimal digit in the
latitude/longditude is approx 11cm/6cm . That might well explain why
there are multiple references.
Le 12/07/2010 11:46, Peter Vince a écrit :
Hello Antonio,
Looking at the aerial photographs on Google Maps, the tra
Hello Antonio,
Looking at the aerial photographs on Google Maps, the transmitter
building can be seen at 54.91224°N, 3.27831°W - nearer Cardurnock than
Anthorn! Which are the actual aerial masts though, I don't know.
Might I suggest you contact Peter Whibberley at the National Physical
Labor
Greetings to the group.
I would like to have the exact (and trustworthy...) WGS84 coordinates
of the Anthorn Loran-C antenna. Searching the net I got at least three
different sets of LAT/LONG. It seems to me that exactitude is not a
cult anymore, except for us the nutties...
I would also appr
