Hi Peter that sounds like a dose of NIH, but I agree with your sentiments.
What is even more galling is that HM Government would no support the Decca
system a few year earlier ....a much more "radio ecologically clean" system
....so it was ripped out. Still it looks like the shipping companies will be
paying for this through their Lights Dues, so we will only see it as a
slight increase in the cost of chinese manufactured goods !
Now the plus side....keep an eye open for old yachty Loran receivers. I have
just picked up an Apelco (Raytheon) DX6300 which I cannot get a firmware
data upgade for (it still thinks Lessay is on an experimental GRI), but it
locks well to the chain when the correct GRI is entered manually, and then
there is a locked 10MHz output, which is referenced to a cesium standard,
and easy to extract. So it makes a very cheap off-air frequency standard. It
just doesn't compute the location.
Cheers de Alan G3NYK
----- Original Message -----
From: <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: 02 June 2007 15:29
Subject: Re: LF: Rugby Loran to cease
> Dave
>
> I hope it falls in the Mersey on it's way up the M6.
>
> Thought the days of Spark ended 50 years ago any way?
>
> 73 Petefmt
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