[Boatanchors] LightSquared

[Richard Knoppow]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "J. Forster" <jfor at quikus.com>
To: "Charles Ring" <w3nu at roadrunner.com>
Cc: <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>; "Drew P." 
<drewrailleur807 at yahoo.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2012 7:31 AM
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] LightSquared


> 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

     I used to hear Loran-A all the time, it had what music 
people call a phasing or flanging effect so that the pitch 
of the pulses ran up and down cyclically.  It was a great 
signal for testing noise limiters. I could just barely hear 
a Loran-C station on my BC-779 but I did not attempt to make 
any sort of LW antenna. I have no idea where that station 
was but the Loran-A station must have been in San Pedro 
because it was consistently very strong both day and night.


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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles
WB6KBL
dickburk at ix.netcom.com