Markus,
Very loud here in Massachusetts, approximately 300mi (500kM) mostly
an over-water path.
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73 Warren K2ORS
WD2XGJ
WD2XSH/23
WE2XEB/2
WE2XGR/1
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 7:05 PM, Markus Vester <[email protected]> wrote:
> Wildwood is again transmitting experimental Loran signals on GRI 8970 M and
> X tonight. Traces are becoming visible here in the two rightmost slots on
> http://www.alice-dsl.net/df6nm/LoranView/LoranGrabber.htm
>
> On the US east coast, it should be audible on 100 kHz, and some of the
> familiar lines should have reappeard on 137 kHz spectrograms.
>
> Best regards,
> Markus (DF6NM)
> -----Ursprüngliche Mitteilung-----
> Von: Markus Vester <[email protected]>
> An: rsgb_lf_group <[email protected]>
> Verschickt: Di, 20 Mrz 2012 11:44 pm
> Betreff: Re: LF: Fwd: US Loran - got it!
>
> There's also a 8970 master emission, with the same fading history, and about
> 2.4 ms earlier here than if it would come from Dana. Thus Wildwood is
> currently transmitting both M and X signals.
>
> Best 73,
> Markus (DF6NM)
>
> From: Markus Vester
> Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2012 12:13 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: LF: Fwd: US Loran - got it!
>
> Hey Chris,
>
> it's there! I have added five slots 8970 m,w,x,y,z to the right of my LV
> display, and since 22 UT I'm indeed getting a trace in the X slot allocated
> to Seneca. It's about 12 pixels (0.55 ms) late here, so either the emission
> delay or the location must be wrong.
>
> Someone reported that the emissions are actually from the Loran Support
> Center, Wildwood NJ (Cape May, 38.9464N 74.8668W). According to Google
> Earth this is 6595 km from me, 164 km further than Seneca. That's exactly
> 0.55 ms extra delay! So we know that they are transmitting from Wildwood
> using Seneca parameters.
>
> If you like to see it yourself, you can simply add a line containing "8970x"
> at the end of the stations section, after the GPS entry.
> Thanks for the tip!
>
> Best 73,
> Markus
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Mitteilung-----
> Von: Chris 4X1RF <[email protected]>
> An: Markus Vester <[email protected]>
> Verschickt: Di, 20 Mrz 2012 2:29 pm
> Betreff: US Loran
>
> Hi Markus,
>
> From the 'time-nuts' list, yesterday evening around 20UTC the 8970x Seneca
> N.Y. station was reported as being active.
>
> 73s
> Chris
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