Monday, January 11, 2010

Coast Guard announces decision to end LORAN-C

By Susan Schept - Navy Times Staff writer

The Coast Guard officially published its decision last Thursday to discontinue its radio navigation tool, known as LORAN-C, after 66 years of operation.

The decision to decommission the Long Range Aids to Navigation program was published in the Federal Register. The Coast Guard will begin shutting off the North American signal Feb. 8 and finish the process by Oct. 1. The Coast Guard operates 24 LORAN-C stations.

You can read the rest of tee copyrighted story above at http://www.navytimes.com/news/2010/01/coastguard_LORAN_010710w/

And another copyrighted story is posted at
http://www.insidegnss.com/node/1806#Baseband_Technologies_Inc_