On 08/01/11 06:54, Magnus Danielson wrote:
John,
On 08/01/11 05:04, J. Forster wrote:
Magnus,
See my post of a few minutes ago.
The GRI and Delay counters need to be 5 decimal digits. My current
thinking is manual entry of the numbers via BCD coded thumbwheel
switches.
If you only need a static location that will be fine. Naturally you tune
it up to the ships current (final?) position. Good exercise for the
visitors. :)
LORAN-A has 24 possible GRIs; in three blocks of 33 PPS; 25 PPS; and 20
PPS. It also has 4 RF frequencies.
I did a fashinating read-up here:
http://www.jproc.ca/hyperbolic/loran_a.html
GRI is a LORAN-C term if I get it correctly, where as PRR is used
together with frequency indication in LORAN-A.
Pondering some more on this, doing some calculations (spread-sheets) the
actual scheme emerge... the range of 0 to 7 is not selected by accident.
The base pulse repetition rate is 30 ms, 40 ms and 50 ms. The pulse
repetition rate modifiers modifies the repetition rate by -100 us per
step. It would only take two (or possibly three) wheels to select PRR.
This explains the high rate starts with 33 3/9... it also makes the
receiver design easier to understand.
So a 10 kHz source would suffice for PRR settings. A phantastron divider
from a 100 kHz standard should do it in those days technology, if not a
10 kHz standard was used directly.
Only the delayed pulse would need the full set of thumb-wheels.
Cheers,
Magnus
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