[Lowfer] To LORAN-C Listeners

[John Andrews]

And I forgot...the GRI of the current transmission is 8970 us.

JA

On 3/20/2012 6:25 PM, John Andrews wrote:
> 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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