Senate directs USCG to continue Loran support
 

When will they let this system die a natural death?

http://sidt.gpsworld.com/gpssidt/Lat...tegoryId=33831

Senate directs USCG to continue Loran support
 

On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:59:52 -0700 (PDT), wf3h
wrote:

When will they let this system die a natural death?

http://sidt.gpsworld.com/gpssidt/Lat...tegoryId=33831

Never hopefully.

The the GPS satellites fall out of the sky or stop working for what
ever reason, we'll still have LORAN.

Or eLORAN. :)

And what the heck - stimulous, sometimes known as porkulous, money is
available - spend some of it on something useful.

Senate directs USCG to continue Loran support
 

On Jun 18, 9:58*am, Gene Kearns
wrote:
On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:31:45 -0400, Wizard of Woodstock penned the
following well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

|On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:59:52 -0700 (PDT), wf3h
|wrote:
|
|When will they let this system die a natural death?
|
|http://sidt.gpsworld.com/gpssidt/Lat...d-Directed-to-....
|
|Never hopefully.
|
|The the GPS satellites fall out of the sky or stop working for what
|ever reason, we'll still have LORAN.
|
|Or eLORAN. *:)
|
|And what the heck - stimulous, sometimes known as porkulous, money is
|available - spend some of it on something useful.

Let's face it, GPS is really neat, but very subject to
interference..... intentional or otherwise. Loran is pretty
bulletproof and ground based.... all good things from a reliability
standpoint.

but no military uses LORAN. and it's certainly subject to sabotage,
etc. bringing down a LORAN tower takes a few pounds of C4....