Re: [time-nuts] Loran C D-Day

2010-01-05 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
Not entirely unrelated to Loran-C: http://www.jan-mayen.no/nyhet/2009/12_desember/desember-09.htm Look at the entry for december 23rd. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe

Re: [time-nuts] Loran C D-Day

2010-01-05 Thread Richard W. Solomon
Sorry, but I am not conversant in that language !! 73, Dick, W1KSZ -Original Message- From: Poul-Henning Kamp p...@phk.freebsd.dk Sent: Jan 5, 2010 1:23 PM To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement time-nuts@febo.com Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Loran C D-Day Not entirely

Re: [time-nuts] Loran C D-Day

2010-01-05 Thread Rob Kimberley
time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Loran C D-Day Sorry, but I am not conversant in that language !! 73, Dick, W1KSZ -Original Message- From: Poul-Henning Kamp p...@phk.freebsd.dk Sent: Jan 5, 2010 1:23 PM To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement time

Re: [time-nuts] Loran C D-Day

2010-01-05 Thread Magnus Danielson
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: Not entirely unrelated to Loran-C: http://www.jan-mayen.no/nyhet/2009/12_desember/desember-09.htm Look at the entry for december 23rd. Looks like they have alot of humour and good mood in general. Their bathing-weather leaves a little to desire... -0,4 C in the

Re: [time-nuts] Loran C D-Day

2010-01-05 Thread Don Latham
And, do I see a picture of something looking much like the dreaded Wouff Houng? Don AJ7LL Magnus Danielson Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: Not entirely unrelated to Loran-C: http://www.jan-mayen.no/nyhet/2009/12_desember/desember-09.htm Look at the entry for december 23rd. Looks like they

Re: [time-nuts] Loran C D-Day

2010-01-05 Thread J. Forster
One word: Vodka -John === Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: Not entirely unrelated to Loran-C: http://www.jan-mayen.no/nyhet/2009/12_desember/desember-09.htm Look at the entry for december 23rd. Looks like they have alot of humour and good mood in general. Their bathing-weather

Re: [time-nuts] Loran C D-Day

2010-01-04 Thread asmagal
Hello! How about the European chains? If I understand correctly they will stand up. But who is the central control in Europe? Happy New Year (at least, after the sad news...) Antonio CT1TE Quoting David McGaw da...@endor.com: Does anyone have any insight as to how this affects the Canadian

Re: [time-nuts] Loran C D-Day

2010-01-04 Thread paul swed
When I was digging around I ran across a Canadian LORAN site equal to the USCG and they have already signed off on shut down. Erurope will be fine for quite a while like 10 years. It seems crazy as this thought is, that they want a backup to GPS. I have occasionally locked on to the European

Re: [time-nuts] Loran C D-Day

2010-01-04 Thread Jim Mandaville
I don't hear the usual Loran chuk-a-chuk on 100 kc this morning in Tucson, but not sure whether it is due to local noise, which is pretty thick here. Jim ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to

Re: [time-nuts] Loran C D-Day

2010-01-04 Thread paul swed
They are working well in new england Listening to wwvb I suspect there might be a propagation issue. Its very noisey this morning On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Jim Mandaville z...@dakotacom.net wrote: I don't hear the usual Loran chuk-a-chuk on 100 kc this morning in Tucson, but not sure

[time-nuts] Loran C D-Day

2010-01-03 Thread Rich and Marcia Putz
Hi Gang; Tomorrow is the beginning of the count down for Loran C termination, let's see how long it takes for the gov't to act on this one. I have my receivers running. That's change we can believe in! Regards; Rich ___ time-nuts mailing list --

Re: [time-nuts] Loran C D-Day

2010-01-03 Thread paul swed
Rich like you I have my Austrons up and a pair of HP3586 receivers also. Since it could be Jan 4th UTC. Maybe they will go silent in in about 3 hours from now. See if I can hear the European LORAN stations. I have been logging the frequency for about a month as far as a reference goes. Seems

Re: [time-nuts] Loran C D-Day

2010-01-03 Thread paul swed
Well its 4 jan 2010 and the loran chains at the moment are running. Who knows no real detail on the coast guard site. On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 4:43 PM, paul swed paulsw...@gmail.com wrote: Rich like you I have my Austrons up and a pair of HP3586 receivers also. Since it could be Jan 4th

Re: [time-nuts] Loran C D-Day

2010-01-03 Thread David McGaw
Does anyone have any insight as to how this affects the Canadian chains? For those of us in the northern US, they may still be useable. It will be a shame to lose Nantucket and Seneca. Thanks, David in NH At 03:40 PM 1/3/2010, you wrote: Hi Gang; Tomorrow is the beginning of the count

Re: [time-nuts] Loran C D-Day

2010-01-03 Thread Bob Camp
Hi I think you have just found the gotcha in all of this. The chains that are shared with Canada probably are under some kind of treaty. I don't remember hearing anything about Canada shutting down Loran-C. If the US stations go down without Canada shutting down Loran-C as well, then that's

Re: [time-nuts] Loran C D-Day

2010-01-03 Thread Bill Hawkins
Bob, That last comment may be why I read everything you write. Happy new year, if you can find any happiness in it . . . Bill Hawkins -Original Message- From: Bob Camp Sent: Sunday, January 03, 2010 10:02 PM Hi I think you have just found the gotcha in all of this. The chains that