NavList:

   

Reply

Some discussion of eLORAN here:

Also, see:

-- Richard Langley

Quoting Anabasis75@aol.com:

>
>
> Lu writes:
>
> "Carl, let's be careful here.   LORAN was primarily deployed in  North
> America (I believe there was also some coverage in the Pacific due to US
> territories there and Japan also operated a chain).   Loran is being  brought back in
>
> the US.  I don't know about Canada and I'm pretty sure it's  not being
> resurrected in the Pacific.   So while it's great (I did a  lot of precision
> electronic
> navigation using Loran way before GPS) Loran  certainly doesn't provide the
> worldwide coverage provided by  GPS."
>
>
>
> LORAN isn't being "brought back" so much as enhanced as Carl  mentioned.
> eLORAN will have an additional signal encoded in it to enhance  accuracy among
> other improvements.  There is a good article on the USCG  website about it that
> I would link to except that I have only sporadic email  here at sea and no
> Internet connection.
>
> The Japan/Guam chain is still going strong, and of course the chains on the
> US coasts are there as well.  Lu is correct that it gets sketchy outside of
> groundwave coverage, and is certainly just a mid-ranged system that should
> compliment GPS nicely out to several hundred miles from the stations.
>
> What will be interesting to see is the EU version of GPS (I forget the  name)
> which should then offer us two independent systems of deep sea electronic
> navigation which will give us a third navigation system in the deep  oceans.  I
> look forward to that.
>
> Jeremy
> **************Get the Moviefone Toolbar. Showtimes, theaters, movie news &
> more!(http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100000075x1212774565x1200812037/aol?redir=htt
> p://toolbar.aol.com/moviefone/download.html?ncid=emlcntusdown00000001)
>
> >
>


===============================================================================
 Richard B. Langley                            E-mail: lang@unb.ca
 Geodetic Research Laboratory                  Web: http://www.unb.ca/GGE/
 Dept. of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering    Phone:    +1 506 453-5142
 University of New Brunswick                   Fax:      +1 506 453-4943
 Fredericton, N.B., Canada  E3B 5A3
     Fredericton?  Where's that?  See: http://www.city.fredericton.nb.ca/
===============================================================================



--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
Navigation List archive: www.fer3.com/arc
To post, email NavList@fer3.com
To , email NavList-@fer3.com
-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

   

Reply