[Lowfer] U.S. Loran-C to shut down?

[Warren Ziegler]

John,

   Interesting!

Two points:
1) The Federal Fiscal Year runs from Oct 1 - Sept 30, so the end of
FY09 would be Sept 30 (rather than June 30).
2) Don't rule out the possibility that the funds might be added back
into the budget by Congress. The budget process is a
complex chess game between the House, Senate and Administration,
sometimes an Administration (of either party) will delete funds
with the knowledge that the Congress will restore the funding, happens
all the time.
-- 
73 Warren K2ORS
                WD2XGJ
                WD2XSH/23
                WE2XEB/2
                WE2XGR/1



On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 9:42 AM,  <w1tag at charter.net> wrote:
> According to an article on the ARRL site, the President's FY2010 proposed budget calls for a shut-down of the U.S. Coast Guard's Loran-C operations. No details are available other than a USCG statement that they will continue to run Loran-C through the end of FY2009 (30 June), and will be submitting their recommendations for FY2010 in accordance with the President's wishes. The proposed budget claims a savings of $36 million dollars in FY2010.
>
> This would of course make the 135.7 - 137.8 kHz band much more useful on this side of the pond, and is definitely worth watching.
>
> John Andrews, W1TAG
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