No sigs yet - I am friends with the tech at Wildwood and also have a monitor (with squelch) on the fx. Will advise list when they fire up.
73, Bill, WA2DVU Cape May, NJ - Just a few miles away from Wildwood. -----Original Message----- From: time-nuts [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of David McGaw Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2015 11:32 PM To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Loran C returning to a station near you... The word is that eLoran IS on in the US from Wildwood as of June 19. Has anyone noticed the signal? http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/loran-navigation-signal-back-on-and-better-than-before/article_21d19298-16d0-11e5-9a69-1343edc2e90b.html There is also a bill in the US House to reinstate Loran-C as eLoran. David N1HAC On 7/14/15 6:49 PM, Bob Camp wrote: > Hi > > Not to be to much of a downer here but ….. > > Loran for timing and an “Eastern WWVB” are two projects that seem to > each have a life of their own. They seem to come up on some sort of cycle > related to sun spots. > Both have zero (or possibly less than that) percent mind share among > those who would need to implement them into systems. Since there is > major cost on the systems end, it would take “mandatory use” > legislation to get them designed in. Without those design in’s, > *having* a backup system is pretty useless. You are talking about billions of > dollars and years of effort to hook them up …. > > If you are talking about “infinite budget” military systems, some of > that may happen. I notice in the papers that “infinite budget” does > not seem to apply to the US DOD these days. For commercial systems, nobody > will significantly cut into profits to do something like this. > > Should they do this - sure. Will they do it - nope. > > Bob > >> On Jul 14, 2015, at 4:49 PM, paul swed <paulsw...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Poul-Henning, >> The reason to stay with the LORAN C style pulses is very very simple. >> It allows our time-nuts Austrons and SRS to work. Its the only way I >> get any of my tax dollars back. :-) The good news is no official >> government person reads time-nuts. >> Regards >> Paul >> >> >> On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 12:16 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp >> <p...@phk.freebsd.dk> >> wrote: >> >>> -------- >>> In message <55a4ac81.1030...@rubidium.dyndns.org>, Magnus Danielson >>> writes: >>> >>>> The safety is >>>> relative, in that it takes quite a bit of more infrastructure >>>> compared to the jamming of GPS, and that lies in the wavelength of >>>> the signal than anything else. >>> If the goal is a reliable backup for GPS, there are smarter ways to >>> use the 100kHz band than Loran-C pulses, and there really isn't much >>> reason to stay compatible with Loran-C receivers. >>> >>> -- >>> Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 >>> p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 >>> FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe >>> Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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. _______________________________________________ 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. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus _______________________________________________ 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.