Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] LORAN-C 100 kHz Nantucket

[Patrick Griffith <antennawizard@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The Loran-C decommissioning has been on and off again so many times that it is difficult to keep up with. Homeland Security wanted to keep the system and upgrade it. The House version of the 2010 Homeland Security Appropriations Act funded the Loran-C system at $36 million and requires the Coast Guard to submit a plan for upgrading the system to eLoran, as a long-term backup for GPS. However, I read that the US Loran system was shut down on February 8, 2010 and the Russian and Canadian segments followed shortly thereafter. There are some photos from my 2001 visit to the Gillette WY site on one of my my web sites at community.webtv.net/AM-DXer/ 
 
> Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 13:50:22 +0000
> From: rfoxwor1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; am@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] LORAN-C 100 kHz Nantucket
> 
> I thought it was pretty widely publicized in the past few months
> that Loran-C has been decommissioned and all the sites in US and
> later Canada to be closed. There was a great video on the web of a
> 1350-foot loran tower at a site in Alaska being dynamited. They got
> it to collapse almost vertically.
> 
> - Bob
> 
> 
> ---- Saul DX <sauldx@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> > Hmmm,
> > I wonder about LORAN in eastern Canada....
> 
> > > Per tip from Sylvain Naud in Quebec on another list, I have just noted 
> > > that the LORAN-C transmitter on 100 kHz on Nantucket is silent! This is 
> > > big news here as the harmonics from this transmitter have been a pest on 
> > > both MW & LW for many decades. I hope the silence is permanent!
> 
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