[Lowfer] To LORAN-C Listeners
John Andrews
w1tag at charter.net
Tue Mar 20 18:25:40 EDT 2012
On one hand, who actually "listens" to Loran-C? <g>
On the other, I had a kind of flashback when I tuned it in tonight. Nice
signal here, but without the dual-rating, it sounds just like I remember
it from the early '70s. Back then, I used the signal from Nantucket to
calibrate a 100 kHz "standard" by the simple act of just feeding the 100
kHz signal into a grossly-detuned AM radio set for reception on 100 kHz.
A simple audio level meter on the output was enough to allow slowing the
beat until it was frozen.
Then dual-rating came along, and the cal method got more complicated.
Nice while it lasted, though.
John, W1TAG
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