[Lowfer] 'Mystery Meat' Loran Lines

[Steve Dove]

Greetings,

Glad I'm not the only one with faux-Loran lines.  Shrug shoulders and get on with 
it, I suppose.

Only today something weird happened.  I've had the 'Grabulator' on looking for 
Laurence  -  one never knows, and static's been teasingly quiet lately  -  and 
there predictably enough at the top of my screen on 137.77406 is one line 
presumed attributable to 'Canadian East Coast'.  (It's nominal frequency is 
77403, but I couldn't be bothered to recalibrate).  Ho-hum.

But this afternoon as I was pottering about the lab, before my eyes a second line 
*abruptly* started some 30mHz below it.  So solid and clean was it that I nearly 
penned a quick "Who's playing?" message to the group.  It slowly faded out at 
dusk, but is poking its nose out again now (0230z) as the 'original' line goes into 
a fade.

So, what's what?  Possibly the 'new' line is a 'for real' 'Canadian East' and the 
original is Fauxran.  Which is telling me that (a) I'm not hearing very well and (b) 
my 'Argo' is actually on-frequency (which could possibly be a first).

A Loran out-of-snch?  I think not.  Hope not.

'Fraid I don't subscribe to the 'intermod' theory  -  front-end bandwidth is closed in  
tight and there is under 100uV total tickling the front of the receiver.  It'd be real 
interesting to figure these things out.

         Cheers,

                Steve