Coast Guard will terminate Long Range Aids to Navigation

[eppefour]

Coast Guard will terminate Long Range Aids to Navigation (Loran-C) signal February 8
Jan 29th, 2010
by cgnews.
ALAMEDA, Calif. — The U.S. Coast Guard will cease broadcasting the North American LORAN-C signal Feb. 8.
As a result of technological advancements during the last 20 years and the emergence of the U.S. Global Positioning System, LORAN-C is no longer required by the armed forces, the transportation sector or the nation's security interests, and is used by only a small segment of the population.
LORAN-C was originally developed to provide radio navigation service for U.S. coastal waters and was later expanded to include complete coverage of the continental U.S. as well as most of Alaska. Coast Guard men and women have done an excellent job running and maintaining the LORAN-C signal for 52 years. It is a service and mission of which the entire Coast Guard can be proud.
For more information on the LORAN-C termination go to the Coast Guard Navagation Center website at http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/

[seapower]

This will go down in history as one of the most foolish moves our Govt has ever come up with. Frank

[Big Fish Billy]

This will go down in history as one of the most foolish moves our Govt has ever come up with. Frank

Yup...agree here...I loved my Loran C....never left home without it.....all the Koreans have to do is disrupt a satelite, and that'ts it for GPS.......

[seapower]

Thats exactly my point! It's a shame that few others really know how simple LORAN is. It's simply a transmitting station that sends out a signal from a known position, the reciever (the box on your boat or airplane) gets the impulse and simply measures the time that it took for said wave to travel. The fix comes from 2 or more lines, whala, you've got a "fix". You can take out a station (under military action), fine I just need a generator and another transmitter, we're back in business. Might I say, very accurately!!! A lazer or a sunspot can screw up the GPS system. OK I'll ask this, even if GPS is a better system (and by the way I haven't seen that proof yet), whats wrong with having an absolute reliable, time proven and simple system to boot??? Guess it just makes too much sense to us lesser intelectual types! Frank