Thanks Peter, I will hope that it evolves to eloran but for .0002% of the budget we will shut it down. That said if you want to use your Austrons in North America I have an answer for you. There is the suggestion of at least on the eastcoast using Europe. But thats skywave and my research indicates thats about 1 X e-10. Also the fact that the Europe chains use a finer GRI rate. Hard to say if the Austrons will work. Back to tinkering Regards
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Peter Vince <pvi...@theiet.org> wrote: > Hello Paul, > > I have just been to the British National Physical Laboratory's > bi-annual "Time and Frequency" meeting in London, and gained the > strong impression that LORAN was far from dead. Apparently there was > a meeting in Prague recently, with Britain, France, and Norway all > behind eLoran, and Norway apparently has a mutual operability > agreement with Russia for their equivalent ("Chayka"?). Certainly the > British transmitter has at least another 8 years to go on their > initial ten-year contract. Despite recent pessimism on here from some > US members recently, I gained the strong impression today that the > annual $36 million operating cost was frankly such a drop in the ocean > (pardon the pun) that they would likely finance eLoran somehow, if not > by the current means. And I seem to remember we went around this > scare story last year, and I was confused by the apparent will to > close down Loran-C, but introduce eLoran - as if they were two > different systems, whereas the latter is just an upgrade on the > former. Could this be politicians and accountants double-talk? > > It was further suggested today that despite the popularity of > GPS-World, www.pnt.org (a US government web site) was likely a more > reliable source of information. So, don't throw out all your Austron > 2100's yet - all is not yet lost! > > Regards, > > Peter Vince (London, England) > > (Can I just clarify: the opinions above are mine, obtained from the > floor of the meeting today, and don't represent the official view of > NPL!) > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.