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Steven Shelikoff
 
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Default LORAN here to stay? Maybe.

On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 03:01:20 GMT, (Steven Shelikoff)
wrote:

On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 19:09:42 -0700, "Jim Donohue"
wrote:
"Steven Shelikoff" wrote in message
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Where's Jim Donahue when ya need him?


http://www.defensedaily.com/cgi/av/s...ontimeon.h tm

Right here. Silliness. The vote is already in. LORAN is dead. Always was
dead when GPS came along. You can't support a local system as an


More and more people are disagreeing with you and are finally coming to
realize the folly of trusting everything to one mode of navigation.

alternative to a global one. Stick to your guns Steve.... All those planes


Sure you can, for the area the local system covers.


P.S., I'll bet the boaters from FL to NC who still have LORAN are pretty
happy they have that backup since GPS is supposed to be unreliable from
6/11 to 6/20 in that area due to military exercises.

Steve