[Boatanchors] LightSquared

J. Forster jfor at quikus.com
Thu Oct 11 10:31:08 EDT 2012


There is not much to hear on either LORAN-A or LORAN-C.

At any fixed location, the signals will not vary in time.

LORAN-A is just a short RF pulse, followed a fixed time later by another
identical pulse; repeat ad infinitum.

-John

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>
> On 10/11/2012 0047, Drew P. wrote:
>> Bry Carling wrote:
>>
>> "what was the radio location signal we use to hear on 160 meters?
>> I can't remember if I use to hear that in england or here in the united
>> states.  it sounded like 'beedly-beep, beedly-beep' all of the time and
>> it caused quite a lot of QRM for radio amateurs."
>>
>> Not sure what it might have been in England, but here in the U.S. we had
>> the Ratta-tatta-tatta-tatta of good old LORAN-A. In a way, I miss those
>> signals, they had an almost mesmerizing sound in an obtuse sort of way.
>> Their presence greatly reduced the scope of 160 meter operation in my
>> area, where we could run only 50 watts in the segment 1800 to 1825 and
>> 25 watts in the segment 1825 to 1850. This cause most operators to shun
>> 160 and I used to operate there with an ARC-5 type set on AM, and could
>> work the eastern seaboard with a modest antenna and little QRM to
>> contend with.  Oh, the good old days.
>>
>> Drew
>>
>
> I wonder if there any recordings of LORAN-A  transmissions to listen to
> online.
>
>
> --
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