Talk:Loran-C

Apologies

I would like to make initial apologies to the original contributor of the article. I found the information in there arcane and at an unaccessible level for a general encyclopedia. I also found some bits that seemed inaccurate (for example, the original claimed that equal TD occurs along the BLL -- actually, it occurs along a line perpendicular to the BLL intersecting at the midpoint between stations).

I'd also like to make apologies for the diagram I uploaded. It is extremely crude and inaccurate (basically, the curves are not hyperbolas as they should be), but IMO it does get the point across.

I went looking for images of a LORAN station and the used images from the first website I could find -- Malone Station.

Lastly, I know that the article could have much more added to it: more info on receivers, notes about "correction factors", a note about multi-tasking stations (i.e. stations which serve as secondary and/or master and/or both in more than one chain, aka "dual-rated"), the longevity of LORAN-C in a world gone almost completely over to GPS, current LORAN-C advocacy, eLORAN and digital LORAN, more detail on LORAN-A, history of LORAN rooted in WWII.... come to mind.

-- [[User:KeithTyler|Keith D. Tyler [flame]]] 00:46, Dec 18, 2004 (UTC)

Acronym

The LORAN acronym is actually LOng Range Aids to Navigation. —This unsigned comment was added by 147.240.236.9 (talk • contribs) .

According to the US Coast Guard's 1992 LORAN Handbook, Chapter 1, "LORAN is an acronym for long-range navigation."[1]. (PD-US-GOV) I would assume, since they are the operator of LORAN in the USA, they would know what it is called. --Dual Freq 23:57, 16 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It seems that the Omega_Navigation_System link does not reference the correct article -- Robert Manning

Goniometer

The link to Goniometer seems to refer to a completely different item to anything which could be connected with a loading coil which passes high power to an antenna.