[Milsurplus] Re:Loran C

[D C Macdonald]

Sabotaging a Loran chain (or several) would be simpler
and far less expensive than sabotaging the GPS satellites.
Far more possible saboteurs, also.

Mac, K2GKK/5


----Original Message Follows----
From: Barry Hauser <barry at hausernet.com>
Reply-To: Barry Hauser <barry at hausernet.com>
To: BOEING377 at aol.com, milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Re:Loran C
Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2004 10:27:43 -0400

Reminds me ...

A few years ago I was on a cruise and took the tour of the bridge.  The
young officer spent quite a bit of time on the GPS system.

There was an old Loran unit -- turned off.  I asked the officer about it and
he said something, like -- "Oh, that.  We don't use it anymore.  I don't
know much about it."

Hopefully they'll come up with an equivalent integrated marine unit, so if
the GPS gets faulty it will automatically switch over if possible.  Or at
least it should have  have a button on the screen labeled "Help" -- not
"Loran"   -- the kid on the bridge might not know what it means.

Or is Loran kaput for maritime use?

Barry