Re: [time-nuts] Loran

2017-08-08 Thread paul swed
Paul Yes indeed lots of thinking. Thinking is good when you are paid by the hour. Unfortunately it doesn't create an alternate time and frequency reference should GNNS fail. I have been following this for a long time and hope that eLoran returns. I always enjoyed it as a reference here in Boston. R

Re: [time-nuts] Loran Europe Lessay seems to be back on air?

2016-01-09 Thread GandalfG8--- via time-nuts
> It seems to me that the code they use for the 6731M signal is botched, > anybody who can confirm ? Indeed, see the attached plot (from a recording I made earlier this evening): the master signal is totally lacking the 180 degree phase code modulation, while the slave signal does have it. R

Re: [time-nuts] Loran Europe Lessay seems to be back on air?

2016-01-07 Thread paul swed
- From: "Brian Inglis" < > brian.ing...@systematicsw.ab.ca> > To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" < > time-nuts@febo.com> > Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2016 6:26 AM > > Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Loran Europe Lessay seems to be back on air? > >

Re: [time-nuts] Loran Europe Lessay seems to be back on air?

2016-01-07 Thread GandalfG8--- via time-nuts
> It seems to me that the code they use for the 6731M signal is botched, > anybody who can confirm ? Indeed, see the attached plot (from a recording I made earlier this evening): the master signal is totally lacking the 180 degree phase code modulation, while the slave signal does have it. Re

Re: [time-nuts] Loran Europe Lessay seems to be back on air?

2016-01-07 Thread Brian Inglis
January 06, 2016 9:44 PM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Loran Europe Lessay seems to be back on air? On 2016-01-04 14:11, Alan Melia wrote: I remember being told by a senior member of the RIN that he thought it was a "dead duck" and a waste of money. It appears someone also thought RIN was

Re: [time-nuts] Loran Europe Lessay seems to be back on air?

2016-01-06 Thread Alan Melia
2016 9:44 PM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Loran Europe Lessay seems to be back on air? On 2016-01-04 14:11, Alan Melia wrote: I remember being told by a senior member of the RIN that he thought it was a "dead duck" and a waste of money. It appears someone also thought RIN was a "

Re: [time-nuts] Loran Europe Lessay seems to be back on air?

2016-01-06 Thread paul swed
I would give Anthorn some time to settle down. It will. Its a shame no one here has actual contacts with the people that run it. Regards Paul WB8TSL On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 4:44 PM, Brian Inglis < brian.ing...@systematicsw.ab.ca> wrote: > On 2016-01-04 14:11, Alan Melia wrote: > >> I remember bein

Re: [time-nuts] Loran Europe Lessay seems to be back on air?

2016-01-06 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2016-01-04 14:11, Alan Melia wrote: I remember being told by a senior member of the RIN that he thought it was a "dead duck" and a waste of money. It appears someone also thought RIN was a "dead duck" and a waste of money as it too shut down at the end of 2015! -- Take care. Thanks, Brian

Re: [time-nuts] Loran Europe Lessay seems to be back on air?

2016-01-06 Thread Pieter-Tjerk de Boer
On Wed, Jan 06, 2016 at 05:05:37PM +, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > It seems to me that the code they use for the 6731M signal is botched, > anybody who can confirm ? Indeed, see the attached plot (from a recording I made earlier this evening): the master signal is totally lacking the 180 degre

Re: [time-nuts] Loran Europe Lessay seems to be back on air?

2016-01-06 Thread GandalfG8--- via time-nuts
It seems to me that the code they use for the 6731M signal is botched, anybody who can confirm ? Ah well, as of 1915 the FS700s seem to be locking ok again but still with the monitored signal dropping out from time to time so I guess we just need to be patient and treat it a

Re: [time-nuts] Loran Europe Lessay seems to be back on air?

2016-01-06 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <5ce6d0.616cac05.43bec...@aol.com>, gandal...@aol.com writes: >--part1_5ce6d0.616cac05.43bec318_boundary >It seems to me that the code they use for the 6731M signal is botched, >anybody who can confirm ? > > >Ah well, as of 1915 the FS700s seem to be locking o

Re: [time-nuts] Loran Europe Lessay seems to be back on air?

2016-01-06 Thread David J Taylor
FOlks, Whilst it's not e-LORAN, and it may not be of much help, I can at least now look for signals here in Edinburgh give the GRI. I'm using: - e-field vertical mounted in the loft (yes, it would be far better outside) - SpyVerter/Airspy receiver hardware - SDR# receiver software - Virtual A

Re: [time-nuts] Loran Europe Lessay seems to be back on air?

2016-01-06 Thread GandalfG8--- via time-nuts
It seems to me that the code they use for the 6731M signal is botched, anybody who can confirm ? Something's certainly not right at the moment. This morning all was working fine with both Master and Y stations locked on different receivers, but I had to go out for a few hour

Re: [time-nuts] Loran Europe Lessay seems to be back on air?

2016-01-06 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
It seems to me that the code they use for the 6731M signal is botched, anybody who can confirm ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can a

Re: [time-nuts] Loran Europe Lessay seems to be back on air?

2016-01-06 Thread Iain Young
Hi All, On 05/01/16 20:03, paul swed wrote: The norm right now is 1 year. Enjoy while you can. On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 1:50 PM, GandalfG8--- via time-nuts < time-nuts@febo.com> wrote: Yes, they've been switching back and forth between one or two channels all day, with the one channel state al

Re: [time-nuts] Loran Europe Lessay seems to be back on air?

2016-01-06 Thread paul swed
Right but they are both the same station. Note the levels are pretty much the same. On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 12:29 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > > I see both a master and slave on 6731 from Denmark now. > > Same signal strength: > > http://phk.freebsd.dk/misc/_.svg > > -- > Pou

Re: [time-nuts] Loran Europe Lessay seems to be back on air?

2016-01-06 Thread paul swed
The norm right now is 1 year. Enjoy while you can. On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 1:50 PM, GandalfG8--- via time-nuts < time-nuts@febo.com> wrote: > Yes, they've been switching back and forth between one or two channels all > day, with the one channel state always being just the usual Anthorn Y > channe

Re: [time-nuts] Loran Europe Lessay seems to be back on air?

2016-01-05 Thread GandalfG8--- via time-nuts
Yes, they've been switching back and forth between one or two channels all day, with the one channel state always being just the usual Anthorn Y channel and the two channels always being Master plus the Y channel. Sometimes the overall signal levels have been fluctuating quite a bit at 100 M

Re: [time-nuts] Loran Europe Lessay seems to be back on air?

2016-01-05 Thread paul swed
Well this is indeed a good new year. It would appear that Anthorn will be active for a year to 2017. It will be dual rated as a master and slave same sight. Much like the US. The ups and downs you are seeing are the process to dual rate the Master. Should settle out soon as Master and Y. So It woul

Re: [time-nuts] Loran Europe Lessay seems to be back on air?

2016-01-05 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
I see both a master and slave on 6731 from Denmark now. Same signal strength: http://phk.freebsd.dk/misc/_.svg -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attrib

Re: [time-nuts] LORAN Activity in the US

2016-01-05 Thread paul swed
Stan, Yes this is the test I sent the email out on last week and will run to the 15th. I accidentally put 2015. But that said I am also locked. Curious why are you using a battery at the antenna?? Regards Paul. WB8TSL On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 9:53 AM, Stan W1LE wrote: > Hello The Nets: > > current

Re: [time-nuts] Loran Europe Lessay seems to be back on air?

2016-01-05 Thread GandalfG8--- via time-nuts
Hi David, I've only used Loran specific hardware receivers for actual decoding, so no doubt others will be better able to answer your question re suitable software, but one thing to watch out for is that the stations don't actually transmit a named identifier. With all stations transmitti

Re: [time-nuts] Loran Europe Lessay seems to be back on air?

2016-01-05 Thread GandalfG8--- via time-nuts
The experiment continues. Earlier today both the Master and Y channels were showing again, then at 1200 the signal disappeared completely, to be back at 1206 but not long enough for the FS700 to lock before it went again. All good fun:-) Regards Nigel GM8PZR

Re: [time-nuts] Loran Europe Lessay seems to be back on air?

2016-01-05 Thread David J Taylor
I'm receiving pulses on 100 kHz with AirSpy and a SpyVerter, but I have no Windows software to decode the signal and determine just which LORAN it is. Can anyone recommend suitable Windows software? Being located in Edinburgh the signal is reasonable strong. Thanks, David -- SatSignal Software

Re: [time-nuts] Loran Europe Lessay seems to be back on air?

2016-01-05 Thread John Seamons
On LoranView (http://www.df6nm.bplaced.net/LoranView/LoranGrabber.htm) you can easily see various outages on Anthorn beginning at about 1500Z 4-Jan. ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mail

Re: [time-nuts] Loran Europe Lessay seems to be back on air?

2016-01-04 Thread paul swed
But speculations half the fun. Interesting chart. Regards Paul WB8TSL On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 7:03 PM, Pieter-Tjerk de Boer wrote: > > On http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/fullday/ , one can see that the extra > LORAN signal has been on the air roughly from 16:26 till 17:30 UTC: the > waterfall c

Re: [time-nuts] Loran Europe Lessay seems to be back on air?

2016-01-04 Thread Pieter-Tjerk de Boer
On http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/fullday/ , one can see that the extra LORAN signal has been on the air roughly from 16:26 till 17:30 UTC: the waterfall clearly shows that the total received power around 100 kHz was higher during that time. One also sees that just _before_ the start of the "e

Re: [time-nuts] Loran Europe Lessay seems to be back on air?

2016-01-04 Thread Alan Melia
To: Sent: Monday, January 04, 2016 7:26 PM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Loran Europe Lessay seems to be back on air? >As of 1725, 4th January, Lessay seems to have been transmitting again for at least 30 minutes, and showing the same or a slightly stronger signal here on the west coast of

Re: [time-nuts] Loran Europe Lessay seems to be back on air?

2016-01-04 Thread paul swed
Nigel In the US at least for the eastern half of the country the test station has been on lately for several weeks at a shot. Not exactly the old days but a great resource besides GPS to check my various references and note offsets and such using the austrons and SRS. I would agree 1 db difference

Re: [time-nuts] Loran Europe Lessay seems to be back on air?

2016-01-04 Thread GandalfG8--- via time-nuts
This could just be wishful thinking but I'm still hoping it might stay for some time yet. The UK General Lighthouse Authorities have been running their eLoran trials since 2007 so perhaps they found sufficient incentive within that time to keep going. Time will tell, but as you suggest I'

Re: [time-nuts] Loran Europe Lessay seems to be back on air?

2016-01-04 Thread GandalfG8--- via time-nuts
I'm pretty sure it was Anthorn. It was showing as the Master and Y stations, and the individual signal levels as indicated on an FS700 were within 1dB, which would seem a reasonable tolerance on equal signal levels given that the FS700 only reports to the nearest 1dB anyway:-) Still just

Re: [time-nuts] Loran Europe Lessay seems to be back on air?

2016-01-04 Thread paul swed
I somewhat may guess its Anthorn. My 2 cents from across the ocean. The Brits are pretty good about shutting things down. The fact that Anthorn stayed operational was pretty odd even if you thought the new years parties got in the way. Lets face it drink beer with friends or shut a transmitter in

Re: [time-nuts] Loran Europe Lessay seems to be back on air?

2016-01-04 Thread GandalfG8--- via time-nuts
>As of 1725, 4th January, Lessay seems to have been transmitting again for >at least 30 minutes, and showing the same or a slightly stronger signal >here on the west coast of Scotland than Anthorn. Are you sure it's not UK trying to rig something up for their eLoran trials ? =

Re: [time-nuts] Loran Europe Lessay seems to be back on air?

2016-01-04 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <576b98.2a1f5672.43bc0...@aol.com>, GandalfG8--- via time-nuts writes: >As of 1725, 4th January, Lessay seems to have been transmitting again for >at least 30 minutes, and showing the same or a slightly stronger signal >here on the west coast of Scotland than Anthorn. Are

Re: [time-nuts] Loran Europe Lessay seems to be back on air?

2016-01-04 Thread GandalfG8--- via time-nuts
Definitely something unusual going on, overall signal level as monitored on an SDR is significantly lower than normal and seems to have dropped out from time to time, and as of approximately 1750 the master signal is no longer present. Regards Nigel GM8PZR In a message dated 04/01/201

Re: [time-nuts] Loran-C Norway/France/Germany shutdown

2015-12-31 Thread paul swed
Here is a comment I had made on one thread. Yes indeed interesting that Anthorn's going at 0300 UTC. Our friends in the UK celebrating perhaps? Or something else cooking? You only need one station for frequency with the ole austrons. By the way when I could get lock it was the Lessay station 6371 I

Re: [time-nuts] Loran-C Norway/France/Germany shutdown

2015-12-31 Thread Thomas S. Knutsen
FWIW, Loran-C at Jan-Mayen was shut down at 1200NT (1100UTC). Info from: http://jan.mayen.no/nyheter/en-aera-er-forbi/ I will check with a friend at Bø station on monday regarding the rest of the norwegian stations. BR. Thomas. 2016-01-01 3:16 GMT+01:00 GandalfG8--- via time-nuts : > > Looks li

Re: [time-nuts] Loran-C Norway/France/Germany shutdown

2015-12-31 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message , John Seamons writes: >Looks like Sylt went off-air in addition to the Norway and France >stations. Perhaps it is not a permanent decommissioning. Yup, I have all NELS LORSTAs off the air here. But interestingly Anthorn, 6731Y, is still up. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNI

Re: [time-nuts] Loran-C Europe

2015-12-31 Thread paul swed
Yes indeed interesting that Anthorn's going at 0300 UTC. Our friends in the UK celebrating perhaps? Or something else cooking? You only need one station for frequency with the ole austrons. By the way when I could get lock it was the Lessay station 6371 I think. Only ever did that in the winter and

Re: [time-nuts] Loran-C Norway/France/Germany shutdown

2015-12-31 Thread GandalfG8--- via time-nuts
Looks like Sylt went off-air in addition to the Norway and France stations. Perhaps it is not a permanent decommissioning. It might just be coincidence, but at around 0145 on Jan 1st the Sylt web site link on the Loran-C Europe web site was reporting a 404 not found

Re: [time-nuts] LORAN on the air 89700 been a good day so far

2015-07-21 Thread Alexander Pummer
y, July 20, 2015 9:03 PM To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] LORAN on the air 89700 been a good day so far Hi Paul where could I find the frequency of "our Loran" [the Californian Loran ] I have an old HP3586 "radio receiver" 73 Ale

Re: [time-nuts] LORAN on the air 89700 been a good day so far

2015-07-21 Thread Bob Camp
er >> Sent: Monday, July 20, 2015 9:03 PM >> To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement >> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] LORAN on the air 89700 been a good day so far >> >> Hi Paul >> where could I find the frequency of "our Loran" [the Californi

Re: [time-nuts] LORAN on the air 89700 been a good day so far

2015-07-21 Thread billriches
: Tuesday, July 21, 2015 11:58 AM To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] LORAN on the air 89700 been a good day so far Hi Bill , is the Loran frequency 100kHz protected? because there are may switching mode power supplies which generate lots of Loran

Re: [time-nuts] LORAN on the air 89700 been a good day so far

2015-07-21 Thread Alex Pummer
e and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] LORAN on the air 89700 been a good day so far Hi Paul where could I find the frequency of "our Loran" [the Californian Loran ] I have an old HP3586 "radio receiver" 73 Alex llow the instructions there. --- This email has be

Re: [time-nuts] LORAN on the air 89700 been a good day so far

2015-07-21 Thread paul swed
Several answers I am located in boston ma How do I know its the 3586. All other systems are working and not failing. Using the same austron 2100 with another stable reference source has no problem. Alex there is only 1 station on the east coast the gri is 89700. But simply tune the 3586 to 100 Kh

Re: [time-nuts] LORAN on the air 89700 been a good day so far

2015-07-21 Thread billriches
: Monday, July 20, 2015 9:03 PM To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] LORAN on the air 89700 been a good day so far Hi Paul where could I find the frequency of "our Loran" [the Californian Loran ] I have an old HP3586 "radio receiver&quo

Re: [time-nuts] LORAN on the air 89700 been a good day so far

2015-07-20 Thread Alex Pummer
Hi Paul where could I find the frequency of "our Loran" [the Californian Loran ] I have an old HP3586 "radio receiver" 73 Alex On 7/20/2015 1:50 PM, paul swed wrote: The system came up at 9 am and has been working well the austrons and SRS fs 700 are doing very well. Some static crashes and su

Re: [time-nuts] LORAN on the air 89700 been a good day so far

2015-07-20 Thread Bob Camp
Hi Before you *assume* the 3801 is the problem, check and see if the Loran signal is hopping around. Who knows what they might be doing on the transmit end …. Exactly *how* you check the Loran other than finding somebody else on the list … no idea. Bob > On Jul 20, 2015, at 4:50 PM, paul sw

Re: [time-nuts] LORAN on the air 89700 been a good day so far

2015-07-20 Thread billriches
Thanks for your report Paul, What is your QTH? 73, Bill -Original Message- From: time-nuts [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of paul swed Sent: Monday, July 20, 2015 4:50 PM To: Time-nuts Subject: [time-nuts] LORAN on the air 89700 been a good day so far The system came up

Re: [time-nuts] Loran C returning to a station near you...

2015-07-18 Thread Scott McGrath
>> From: billriches [mailto:bill.ric...@verizon.net] >> Sent: Saturday, July 18, 2015 7:05 AM >> To: 'billriches'; 'Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement' >> Subject: RE: [time-nuts] Loran C returning to a station near you... >> >

Re: [time-nuts] Loran C returning to a station near you...

2015-07-18 Thread billriches
l Message- > From: billriches [mailto:bill.ric...@verizon.net] > Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2015 10:04 PM > To: 'billriches'; 'Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement' > Subject: RE: [time-nuts] Loran C returning to a station near you... > > >

Re: [time-nuts] Loran C returning to a station near you...

2015-07-18 Thread paul swed
00Z > > > -Original Message- > From: billriches [mailto:bill.ric...@verizon.net] > Sent: Saturday, July 18, 2015 7:05 AM > To: 'billriches'; 'Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement' > Subject: RE: [time-nuts] Loran C returning to a station near you

Re: [time-nuts] Loran C returning to a station near you...

2015-07-18 Thread paul swed
ilto:bill.ric...@verizon.net] > Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2015 10:04 PM > To: 'billriches'; 'Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement' > Subject: RE: [time-nuts] Loran C returning to a station near you... > > > FYI GRI for Wildwood is 8970. > > Bill

Re: [time-nuts] Loran C returning to a station near you...

2015-07-18 Thread billriches
Correction on times for Mon - thurs - start 900 edst - 1300Z -Original Message- From: billriches [mailto:bill.ric...@verizon.net] Sent: Saturday, July 18, 2015 7:05 AM To: 'billriches'; 'Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement' Subject: RE: [time-nuts]

Re: [time-nuts] Loran C returning to a station near you...

2015-07-18 Thread Graham
ginal Message- From: billriches [mailto:bill.ric...@verizon.net] Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2015 10:04 PM To: 'billriches'; 'Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement' Subject: RE: [time-nuts] Loran C returning to a station near you... FYI GRI for Wildwood is 897

Re: [time-nuts] Loran C returning to a station near you...

2015-07-18 Thread billriches
[mailto:bill.ric...@verizon.net] Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2015 10:04 PM To: 'billriches'; 'Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement' Subject: RE: [time-nuts] Loran C returning to a station near you... FYI GRI for Wildwood is 8970. Bill, WA2DVU Cape May --- This email

Re: [time-nuts] Loran C returning to a station near you...

2015-07-16 Thread Bob Camp
Hi I think the WWVB PM stuff is relevant to Loran in the US. We have (pretty much) the most involved group of “customers” for that signal here on the list. As far as I have seen, the only project that has gone past the talk stage is the converter to drive the old(er) WWVB gear. Even with our l

Re: [time-nuts] Loran C returning to a station near you...

2015-07-16 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <07538A701D6E4F8D804BD567DD794693@gnat>, "Alan Melia" writes: I mean that a Loran-C signal designed as I proposed in a previous email would not do that, because it wouldn't have the groups and GRI-peridodicties which cause the splatter up and down the band. >It just depends wh

Re: [time-nuts] Loran C returning to a station near you...

2015-07-15 Thread Brian Inglis
Look at how well a couple of projects have gone: o privatize NIST NTP server operation - the NTP pool is recommended everywhere and good enough for most; separate providers supply high accuracy, precision, and stability timing for financial markets internationally; and GPS serves the rest o p

Re: [time-nuts] Loran C returning to a station near you...

2015-07-15 Thread David McGaw
Loran-C had absolute accuracy to 500nS but repeatability much better, usually to about 20 meters position or 60 nS (if you mark the position of a buoy you can get back to it very closely). eLoran is a significant improvement and appears to be able to get to 8 meters absolute position or about

Re: [time-nuts] Loran C returning to a station near you...

2015-07-15 Thread billriches
Station in Wildwood, California, and mid west are sort of intact. Bill, WA2DVU -Original Message- From: time-nuts [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Dale Cannon Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2015 1:18 AM To: time-nuts@febo.com Subject: [time-nuts] Loran C returning to a station

Re: [time-nuts] Loran C returning to a station near you...

2015-07-15 Thread billriches
Behalf Of David McGaw Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2015 11:32 PM To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Loran C returning to a station near you... The word is that eLoran IS on in the US from Wildwood as of June 19. Has anyone noticed the signal? http

Re: [time-nuts] Loran C returning to a station near you...

2015-07-15 Thread Alan Melia
e and frequency measurement" ; "Bob Camp" Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2015 7:41 AM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Loran C returning to a station near you... In message <3e8a4741-f565-4d2f-834f-62eca1ca1...@n1k.org>, Bob Camp writes: If you look at the spectral width

Re: [time-nuts] Loran C returning to a station near you...

2015-07-15 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message , paul swed writes: >I don't know if there was. But the timing receivers like the Austrons and >SRS could really derive very accurate frequencies especially if you lived >60 miles from the transmitter. :-) Distance makes a lot of difference. Short is good, in particular if t

Re: [time-nuts] Loran C returning to a station near you...

2015-07-15 Thread Doug Ronald
> Speaking of which, here is a typical Loran-C item the government is selling > for virtually scrap prices. There are a couple of these big-boy feedthroughs > in this sale alone: http://www.govliquidation.com/auction/view?id=9831977 -Doug W6DSR -Original Message- From: time-nuts [mailt

Re: [time-nuts] Loran C returning to a station near you...

2015-07-15 Thread paul swed
John I don't know if there was. But the timing receivers like the Austrons and SRS could really derive very accurate frequencies especially if you lived 60 miles from the transmitter. :-) Regards Paul. WB8TSL On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 4:23 AM, John C. Westmoreland, P.E. < j...@westmorelandengineerin

Re: [time-nuts] Loran C returning to a station near you...

2015-07-15 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <73568e39-9467-4192-aeb8-c9c14a2bb...@n1k.org>, Bob Camp writes: >I notice in the papers that “infinite budget” does not seem to >apply to the US DOD these days. *cough* F-35 *cough* B61-mod12 *cough* -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org

Re: [time-nuts] Loran C returning to a station near you...

2015-07-15 Thread paul swed
I did fire up the srs last week and did not here it? I will fire up a LF receiver and listen. Perhaps my preamp is sick. Regards Paul. On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 11:32 PM, David McGaw wrote: > The word is that eLoran IS on in the US from Wildwood as of June 19. Has > anyone noticed the signal? > >

Re: [time-nuts] Loran C returning to a station near you...

2015-07-15 Thread John C. Westmoreland, P.E.
Time-Nuts, Was better than 500 nS accuracy ever achieved with Loran? 73's, John Westmoreland AJ6BC On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 10:18 PM, Dale Cannon wrote: > Folks, > > > > I know that there is a longing for LORAN-C to return, but this weekend, I > did a Google Maps flyover of each of the US LORA

Re: [time-nuts] Loran C returning to a station near you...

2015-07-15 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <3e8a4741-f565-4d2f-834f-62eca1ca1...@n1k.org>, Bob Camp writes: >If you look at the spectral width of the existing Loran-C (or >similar) waveform, it’s a massive thing. You would have a hard time >coming up with something that spreads more crud around the VLF range. The reaso

Re: [time-nuts] Loran C returning to a station near you...

2015-07-14 Thread David McGaw
The word is that eLoran IS on in the US from Wildwood as of June 19. Has anyone noticed the signal? http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/loran-navigation-signal-back-on-and-better-than-before/article_21d19298-16d0-11e5-9a69-1343edc2e90b.html There is also a bill in the US House to reinstate

Re: [time-nuts] Loran C returning to a station near you...

2015-07-14 Thread Bob Camp
Hi Not to be to much of a downer here but ….. Loran for timing and an “Eastern WWVB” are two projects that seem to each have a life of their own. They seem to come up on some sort of cycle related to sun spots. Both have zero (or possibly less than that) percent mind share among those who wo

Re: [time-nuts] Loran C returning to a station near you...

2015-07-14 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message , paul swed writes: >The reason to stay with the LORAN C style pulses is very very simple. It >allows our time-nuts Austrons and SRS to work. Its the only way I get any >of my tax dollars back. :-) Considering how much better performance you can get with a trivial ARM CPU on

Re: [time-nuts] Loran C returning to a station near you...

2015-07-14 Thread Bob Camp
Hi > On Jul 14, 2015, at 12:35 PM, Magnus Danielson > wrote: > > Poul-Henning, > > On 07/14/2015 06:16 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> >> In message <55a4ac81.1030...@rubidium.dyndns.org>, Magnus Danielson writes: >> >>> The safety is >>> relative, in that it takes quite a bit of mor

Re: [time-nuts] Loran C returning to a station near you...

2015-07-14 Thread paul swed
Poul-Henning, The reason to stay with the LORAN C style pulses is very very simple. It allows our time-nuts Austrons and SRS to work. Its the only way I get any of my tax dollars back. :-) The good news is no official government person reads time-nuts. Regards Paul On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 12:16 P

Re: [time-nuts] Loran C returning to a station near you...

2015-07-14 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <55a53a67.7010...@rubidium.dyndns.org>, Magnus Danielson writes: >> If the goal is a reliable backup for GPS, there are smarter ways to >> use the 100kHz band than Loran-C pulses, and there really isn't much >> reason to stay compatible with Loran-C receivers. > >True. I would

Re: [time-nuts] Loran C returning to a station near you...

2015-07-14 Thread Tim Shoppa
How much money was saved by not sending NIST time codes over GOES satellites? I'm sure that was much less than $36M/year to continue, probably not even 1% of that. I'm strongly for high diversity in time distribution. GPS is great, but putting all our eggs in the GPS basket seems very unwise. At t

Re: [time-nuts] Loran C returning to a station near you...

2015-07-14 Thread Magnus Danielson
Poul-Henning, On 07/14/2015 06:16 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message <55a4ac81.1030...@rubidium.dyndns.org>, Magnus Danielson writes: The safety is relative, in that it takes quite a bit of more infrastructure compared to the jamming of GPS, and that lies in the wavelength of the

Re: [time-nuts] Loran C returning to a station near you...

2015-07-14 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <55a4ac81.1030...@rubidium.dyndns.org>, Magnus Danielson writes: >The safety is >relative, in that it takes quite a bit of more infrastructure compared >to the jamming of GPS, and that lies in the wavelength of the signal >than anything else. If the goal is a reliable backu

Re: [time-nuts] Loran C returning to a station near you...

2015-07-14 Thread paul swed
Skip It certainly keeps trying to return. It will not be the navigation system formerly known as Loran C (Wasn't that also some singer?) it will be eLoran. Most eLORAN systems add an additional pulse for data. They stick somewhat to the old format to avoid possible interference with operating syste

Re: [time-nuts] Loran C returning to a station near you...

2015-07-14 Thread Magnus Danielson
Hi, There is indeed investigations going on about what the cost of receivers would be etc. A benefit of Loran-C is that relative jamming/spoofing resistance can be had without the need of opening up for keyed receivers. This helps for non-military and non-government operations. Now, there is

Re: [time-nuts] LORAN-C reception in the UK

2015-07-12 Thread Magnus Danielson
:2015-07-11 18:00 (GMT+01:00) Till: time-nuts@febo.com Kopia: mag...@rubidium.se Rubrik: Re: [time-nuts] LORAN-C reception in the UK Hi, On 07/11/2015 03:18 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message , ken hartman writes: the European Radio Navigation Plan having twice been drafted but

Re: [time-nuts] Loran and SRS FS700 in the UK

2015-07-11 Thread Björn
Are not Excelis and UrsaNav doing test transmissions again? Originalmeddelande Från: paul swed Datum:2015-07-11 17:23 (GMT+01:00) Till: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Rubrik: Re: [time-nuts] Loran and SRS FS700 in the UK Nigel I have a FS700 and

Re: [time-nuts] LORAN-C reception in the UK

2015-07-11 Thread Björn
Did you check the jamming radius?  Originalmeddelande Från: Magnus Danielson Datum:2015-07-11 18:00 (GMT+01:00) Till: time-nuts@febo.com Kopia: mag...@rubidium.se Rubrik: Re: [time-nuts] LORAN-C reception in the UK Hi, On 07/11/2015 03:18 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote

Re: [time-nuts] LORAN-C reception in the UK

2015-07-11 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <55a13dab.2030...@rubidium.dyndns.org>, Magnus Danielson writes: >> The reason the ERNP wasn't published, was that it concluded that 40% of >> *all* benefits came from Loran-C, at a yearly cost only a fraction of >> a single Galileo launch vehicle. > >Someone should have dreame

Re: [time-nuts] Loran and SRS FS700 in the UK

2015-07-11 Thread GandalfG8--- via time-nuts
The FS700 data sheet specifies the standard oscillator to be be an ovenised oscillator using an AT cut crystal, and the option 01 oscillator to be an ovenised oscillator using an SC cut crystal. The SC10 data sheet specifies it to be a "10MHz high stability oscillator using an SC cut crysta

Re: [time-nuts] LORAN-C reception in the UK

2015-07-11 Thread Magnus Danielson
Hi, On 07/11/2015 03:18 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message , ken hartman writes: the European Radio Navigation Plan having twice been drafted but never published. The view seems to bee that the introduction of Galileo will achieve resilient PNT, which it will not.” The reason

Re: [time-nuts] Loran and SRS FS700 in the UK

2015-07-11 Thread paul swed
Nigel I have a FS700 and would like a copy of the software. I enjoyed the use of LORAN C when it existed and even in some of the test runs. The runs have been pretty quite or I have missed them. But LORAN C made a really nice alternate to GPS and I tended to use it as the absolute. I do here LORAN

Re: [time-nuts] Loran and SRS FS700 in the UK

2015-07-11 Thread Bob Camp
Hi One thing to be careful about: GPS runs at a level that is (depending on the measure) > 10 to > 1000X better than Loran. Both ultimately trace back to a national standard over very long time periods. Eventually that is the limit rather than the accuracy of the transmission medium. Having

Re: [time-nuts] LORAN-C reception in the UK

2015-07-11 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message , ken hartman writes: >the European Radio Navigation Plan having twice been drafted >but never published. The view seems to bee that the introduction of Galileo >will achieve resilient PNT, which it will not.” The reason the ERNP wasn't published, was that it concluded that 4

Re: [time-nuts] Loran and SRS FS700 in the UK

2015-07-11 Thread Bob Camp
Hi > On Jul 11, 2015, at 1:02 AM, Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd) > wrote: > > On 11 Jul 2015 03:28, "GandalfG8--- via time-nuts" > wrote: >> >> This is a reply to the topic "Loran-C reception in the UK" with specific >> emphasis on the Stanford Research FS700. > >> Points to not

Re: [time-nuts] Loran and SRS FS700 in the UK

2015-07-11 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <12d5cf.69a88993.42d22...@aol.com>, gandal...@aol.com writes: >Another possibility of course is that the first unit was incorrectly >marked and none of them have the option 01 oscillator:-) I wouldn't trust selected OCXO's to be marked systematically in that case. -- Poul

Re: [time-nuts] LORAN-C reception in the UK

2015-07-11 Thread Björn
Datum:2015-07-10 22:46 (GMT+01:00) Till: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Rubrik: Re: [time-nuts] LORAN-C reception in the UK from: http://gpsworld.com/eloran-progresses-toward-gps-back-up-role-in-u-s-europe/ “Both Norway and France have declared an intention to cease

Re: [time-nuts] Loran and SRS FS700 in the UK

2015-07-11 Thread GandalfG8--- via time-nuts
Hi Poul-Henning I agree that option 01 is stated to just mean a "better" oscillator, and I was a bit confused by what I found, but my second and third units, neither marked as option 01, have exactly the same oscillator fitted, according to the SRS label on the oscillator, as my first unit

Re: [time-nuts] Loran and SRS FS700 in the UK

2015-07-11 Thread GandalfG8--- via time-nuts
Hi Iain I was also expecting a separate chain and GRI, but yes, 63710 seems to be all there is. Had me scratching my head for a while but for timing purposes at least it's just "business as usual":-) Those extra stations provide the localised corrections that are then transmitted via th

Re: [time-nuts] Loran and SRS FS700 in the UK

2015-07-11 Thread Iain Young
On 10/07/15 22:39, GandalfG8--- via time-nuts wrote: This is a reply to the topic "Loran-C reception in the UK" with specific emphasis on the Stanford Research FS700. Apologies for starting a fresh topic but I'm still not able to take emails from the list due to incompatibility problems with AOL

Re: [time-nuts] LORAN-C reception in the UK

2015-07-11 Thread Iain Young
On 10/07/15 21:46, ken hartman wrote: from: http://gpsworld.com/eloran-progresses-toward-gps-back-up-role-in-u-s-europe/ “Both Norway and France have declared an intention to cease Loran transmissions at the end of 2015. Moreover, France intends to dismantle its Loran infrastructure in 2016. A

Re: [time-nuts] Loran and SRS FS700 in the UK

2015-07-11 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <10c4f9.7d4eacfb.42d19...@aol.com>, GandalfG8--- via time-nuts write s: >All three of my units seem to have the Option 01 oscillator fitted, >although only one states this on the option label, I belive option 01 doesn't mean "has an OCXO" but rather "has a better OCXO" --

Re: [time-nuts] Loran and SRS FS700 in the UK

2015-07-11 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 11 Jul 2015 03:28, "GandalfG8--- via time-nuts" wrote: > > This is a reply to the topic "Loran-C reception in the UK" with specific > emphasis on the Stanford Research FS700. > Points to note. > > All three of my units seem to have the Option 01 oscillator fitted, > although only one state

Re: [time-nuts] LORAN-C reception in the UK

2015-07-10 Thread ken hartman
from: http://gpsworld.com/eloran-progresses-toward-gps-back-up-role-in-u-s-europe/ “Both Norway and France have declared an intention to cease Loran transmissions at the end of 2015. Moreover, France intends to dismantle its Loran infrastructure in 2016. Arrangements for the commercial operation

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