A very nice reply from Markus, DF6NM, creator of the Loran-C Live Grabber page with a new temporary URL to overcome the outage on the current site.
Begin forwarded message: > From: Markus Vester <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: document shutdown of European Loran-C? > Date: December 28, 2015 10:42:21 AM GMT+13:00 > To: [email protected] > > Hi John, > > thanks a lot for your email - I'm glad (and even somewhat surprised) that > someone is watching the Loran "grabber" page. > > The monitor has actually been running continuously, but unfortunately since > Christmas eve FTP access to the df6nm.de server has been down, so all uploads > have failed since then. I have temporarily relocated the LoranView page to > another site > http://df6nm.darc.de/LoranView/LoranGrabber.htm > which is updating every 15 minutes, as usual. Unfortunately I cannot even > place a note or a link on the normal website so no one knows about the > alternate URL - please feel free to post it to anyone who might be interested. > > As you can imagine I was surprised and sad to read that Loran-C France and > Norway is going to quit. I guess this time it may be for real. A few years > ago (I think it was new year 2005), Sylt had been announced to shut down. I > sat up and listened for the last pulses but that just didn't happen then. > > I'd be keen to know whether Sylt will continue because it is used as the sync > source for my monitor - if it goes off with the others, I'd loose timing and > the rest of the event wouldn't be preserved in an image. I could also switch > over to GPS sync before new year which might be safer, but somehow I'd hate > to do just that... In any case I can set up an recording of 100 kHz IQ raw > data for keeping. > > The Russian GRI 8000 stations have come back after one of their usual > temporary outages. If all Europe should become dark, as far as I can see we > will be left with the following chains / GRI's: > > 8000, 5990, 5960, 7950 (Russia) > 8830 (Saudi) > 6000, 6780, 7430, 8390 (China), > 9930 (Korea) > 8970 (USA occasionally) > > All the best, > Markus (DF6NM) > > > > -----Ursprüngliche Mitteilung----- > Von: John Seamons <[email protected]> > An: markusvester <[email protected]> > Verschickt: So, 27 Dez 2015 7:39 pm > Betreff: document shutdown of European Loran-C? > > Hello Markus, > > Any chance you could run your Loran-C Live Grabber to document the shutdown > on > December 31 of European Loran-C? > It looks to me that the Live Grabber has not updated in some time. Although > interestingly the last display does seem to show a shutdown of the > Chayka-8000 > chain. Any idea when that last display was recorded? > > Kind Regards, > > John Seamons, ZL/KF6VO > Tauranga, New Zealand > jks.com > > ref: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg76146.html (End of Loran-C > in > Europe confirmed) > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg76191.html (Anybody who can > record last Loran-C transmissions?) > > > _______________________________________________ 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.
