Return of eLoran

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Mambo Minnow
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Return of eLoran

Postby Mambo Minnow » Fri Aug 11, 2017 8:26 pm

The prevalence of cyber warfare and weakness of GPS to jamming has prompted the Government to reconsider the return of LORAN for redundancy.

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Re: Return of eLoran

Postby jimh » Sat Aug 12, 2017 9:58 am

In the USA, the conversion to eLORAN was about 80-percent complete--then Obama was elected. For some unexplained reason, the Obama administration went on a Jihad against eLORAN, and began blowing up--literally--the LORAN sites. Maybe clearer thinking is now occurring.

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Re: Return of eLoran

Postby Jefecinco » Sat Aug 12, 2017 10:03 am

For our national security a land based electronic navigation system in North America is a must. In a perfect world a patch for our current MFDs would allow them to display Loran information. I believe an antenna would be necessary.
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Re: Return of eLoran

Postby jimh » Sat Aug 12, 2017 10:09 am

You won't need much change--if any--to a electronic chart plotter to use position data from eLORAN. You would just need a modern LORAN receiver. The receiver will be much more expensive than a GNSS receiver due to very low production. GNSS receiver chips are made in the billions of units and now cost a few dollars. An eLORAN receiver won't have the economy of scale in its production and will cost a thousand dollars or more.