[Boatanchors] LightSquared

Bry Carling bcarling at cfl.rr.com
Thu Oct 11 13:39:30 EDT 2012


That's right. You couldn't miss it!

Richard Knoppow <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com> wrote:

>
>----- 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.
>
>
>--
>Richard Knoppow
>Los Angeles
>WB6KBL
>dickburk at ix.netcom.com
>
>
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regards,
Bry Carling

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