I just received this good news from Poul-Henning Kamp: =====
If you want the GRIs in microseconds, add a zero: 67310, 74990, 70010 and 90070 My 2100F had no issues with them. ===== That's great news for me, if the signal is strong enough. -John ========================= > 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. > > _______________________________________________ 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.