On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 18:19:16 -0700, "Jim Donohue"
wrote:

In deed you can. You can also find them at ham swap meets next to the old
boat anchor radios and at marine swap meets next to the 8 track stereos.

The point was not that they are unobtainable...but that the product has been
entirely abandoned by the leading retailers.

Not entirely.
http://www.furuno.com/Furuno/Rooms/D...ED834C6A%5D%5D

But close. Which is what you'd expect for a system who's future was
seriously in doubt until recent interest in keeping it alive. The
current momentum to extend the life of LORAN only started in 2001.

The thought that LORAN has some role as a backup to GPS in a military
jamming situation is pretty close to ludicrous. You really think the
electronic warfare guys are not going toimpact long wave? You think LORAN
is resistive of jamming?

I guess you don't know very much about RF jamming then. If so, you'd
know it's MUCH easier to effectively jam a wide area if you only have to
jam one frequency with extremely weak signals on it than a wide spectrum
of RF with much stronger signals. So yes, LORAN is much more resistive
of jamming than GPS. Orders of magnitude more resistive of jamming.

Steve