I do know that at one stage during the late 80's Loran-C gear became very well priced compared to the then emerging and expensive GPS gear, so many sailors bought them. I would not be surprised if a lot of coastal sailing was done with Loran in the navigators station and GPS in the hand in the cockpit.
John At 03:45 PM 4/20/2006, you wrote: >In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > "Poul-Henning Kamp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >: In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >John Day write >: s: >: >So Loran isn't really dead yet! >: >: Not quite. >: >: The draft European Radio Navigation plan shows that Loran-C gives >: 22% of the benefit for 7% of the money. >: >: But who knows if that translates to political decisions in its favour. > >The US is keeping Loran-C going as a backup for GPS as well. Its been >recently expanded to have data embedded in the pulse streams so that >messages about things like leap seconds and GPS issues can be >disseminated. A few years ago they upgraded their transmitters and >the savings in electricity from old tube transmitters to new solid >state ones paid for the upgrade. They upgraded the entire US/Canada >system, except for the chains that extend into Russia. The new data >channel is being rolled out as well. > >One of the interesting things about working on Loran-C was learning >that no one really knows how many current, real users of Loran-C there >are. Millions of receivers have been sold, but there's evidentially >no good estimates of the number of users (at least there weren't a few >years ago). > >Warner > >_______________________________________________ >time-nuts mailing list >[email protected] >https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list [email protected] https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
