"jim78565" wrote in message
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They are going to have to learn new tricks. Some of them, I'll bet, are
still using loran A, trying to steer to then stay on a TD line until it
crosses another particular TD line.


Well that's part of the resistance to GPS among the fishing crowd. They
have "TD" points saved for all their secret spots and at least the early GPS
systems couldn't directly transfer a TD to a waypoint.
I haven't checked but the newer units probably can do it.

Most of the systems I saw (and had) were LORAN-C. The Grand Banks had a
LORAN system (as well as GPS). The previous owner had travelled all over
in it, from Maine to South America and even through the Panama Canal. All
his navigational points were in the LORAN and not the GPS.

You remember Stanley and his brother Rob on "Polar Bear"? He isn't going
to take too kindly to the demise of LORAN.

Eisboch