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Old 5th Jul 2015, 07:18
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Dan Winterland
 
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The decommissioning of Loran started in the US and Canada from about 2009 with many of the transmitters being turned off. However, the Europeans being a bit suspicious of the US control of GPS upgraded their chains to eLORAN. The Americans thought this was a good idea and have started to convert their existing chains to eLoran.

The advantage of eLoran over SATNAV is that the transmissions are much more powerful and less susceptible to jamming. And SATNAV GBAS enhancement can be transmitted on the eLoran signal.

Combine eLoran and GPS receivers have been available for marine use for a couple of years, and now the US Army want to buy 50,000 eLoran sets.

Loran is not dead!
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