Anybody Remember the Loran Navigation System?

     On a “marine band” radio, these were radios that used to cover roughly from 1.6 Mhz to 3.6 Mhz, you could receive a sound around 1.8 Mhz that was the sound of the arrival of radio pulses from various Loran Navigation system transmitters.  It was a fairly broadband signal with a distinctive sound that selective fading would do weird things to.

      They discontinued those transmitters in 2010, they’ve been obsoleted by GPS systems.  However, this year eLoran is being brought online as a replacement.  Satellite GPS is accurate but it can be spoofed, jammed, and it doesn’t penetrate some areas such as canyons or inside some buildings.

      I have not been able to find much information on eLoran, can anybody tell me what frequency it will operate on?

      Also, if anybody has an audio recording of the old Loran signal as it sounded on an AM receiver, I would much appreciate it, especially if captured during a period of significant selective fade.

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