Does anyone know if there is any organized attempt to save LORAN? -Eric
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Joe Geller <[email protected]> wrote: > The Coast Guard has always been stretched very thin with limited resources > for many missions. The saying was, every year we do more and more with less > and less. > I served in the late 70s as an electronics technician, EE, and later after > Navy > flight school, flying air rescue into the 80s. > > I was lucky to spend some time at two of the research labs, the electronics > engineering center (EECEN) in Wildwood, NJ and later the electrical > engineering laboratory (EELAB) in > Alexandria, VA. At EELAB, I worked in other areas, but a lot of the LORAN > work > was done there. I remember, even back then, that some of the LORAN guys > were searching hobby electronics suppliers to find obsolete chips they needed > to keep the > LORAN system going. I think those were LORAN C boards too, although not sure. > Some new LORAN boards were being developed at the next bench over that used > 6502 > micros (I got to go to the micro class with the LORAN guys). > > Flying HU-25A Falcon jets (modified Falcon 200s that we got in 1982) across > the Gulf of Mexico for > some years, we had a gyro inertial system (which took some 20 minutes to > align), LORAN C, > and all the standard aviation navigation gear, ADF, VOR, DME, and TACAN. The > Collins “RNAV” system used all inputs to develop position information. As I > recall, > once we got hundreds of miles out into the gulf, all we had left was the > inertial system > (and paper charts and aluminum slide rules and later my hp-41CV with nav > equations, when the RNAV when out). What we would have given for a GPS! > > Oh well, at least on the bright side, maybe some of those hp clocks will > start to > show up on the surplus market. > > There is a picture of the Falcon at: > http://www.aero-web.org/database/aircraft/getimage.htm?id=15047 > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > -- --Eric _________________________________________ Eric Garner _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
