It does if you are a presidential suck up. ie DHS head Whats being saved is truly nothing. But don't want to get on that soap box poor form.
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Sykes, Stephan <[email protected]> wrote: > Majdi is correct. The budget report I saw showed that it was less to > upgrade than to decommission. It still doesn't make sense to rely on > only one system with the assumption that it won't break. I think in the > future that shutting down these site will be deemed a bad idea. > > > Steve KD2OM > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Majdi S. Abbas > Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 13:01 > To: [email protected]; Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement > Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Loran C sounds > > > On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 07:29:39AM -0800, Peter Putnam wrote: > > The antenna required on an aircraft must be vertically polarized and > > of significant length. The route from the US west coast to Hawaii > > had no coverage in the middle one-third of the route at night. > > Coverage was even less during daylight hours. > > Not so; > > Designs for H-field antennas for LORAN and GPS exist, and > have been prototyped. > > eLORAN receivers perform on the order of unassisted GPS, > and combined receivers (eLORAN+GPS) beat the accuracy of either. > > The problem with the -C shutdown is it means they having > nearly finished the upgrades, will never run the new system. > It's going to cost more to tear it down than finish the modernization. > > Cheers, > > --msa > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > _______________________________________________ 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.
