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    Loran-C is a hyperbolic radio navigation system that allows a receiver to determine its position by listening to low frequency radio signals that are...
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    different concept, Cyclan, which the Navy took over as Loran-C, which offered longer range than LORAN and accuracy of hundreds of feet. The U.S. Coast Guard...
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  • The LORAN-C transmitter Gillette was a LORAN-C transmission facility near Gillette, Wyoming at 44°00′11″N 105°37′24″W / 44.00306°N 105.62333°W / 44...
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  • LORAN-C transmitter is a LORAN-C transmitter in Bø Municipality in Vesterålen, Norway. Bø LORAN-C transmitter is the X-ray secondary station of the...
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  • LORAN-C transmitter Ejde was the Master station of the Ejde LORAN-C Chain ( GRI 9007). It used a transmission power of 400 kW. Ejde LORAN-C transmitter...
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    The LORAN-C transmitter Rantum is a transmission facility for LORAN-C on the German island Sylt near the village Rantum at 54°48′30″N 8°17′37″E / 54...
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  • LORAN-C transmitter Lampedusa was the X-Ray secondary station of the Mediterranean Sea LORAN-C Chain (GRI 7990). It used a transmission power of 325 kW...
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  • Coast Guard LORAN-C Station Estartit was the Zulu secondary station of the Mediterranean Sea LORAN-C Chain ( GRI 7990). It used a transmission power of...
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    Navy, along with LORAN by the US Navy for long-range navigation at sea. Post war examples including the well-known US Coast Guard Loran-C, the international...
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    the introduction of LORAN, in 1952 work started on a greatly improved version. LORAN-C (the original retroactively became LORAN-A) combined the techniques...
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  • LORAN-C transmitter Hexian is the master station of the China South Sea LORAN-C Chain ( GRI 6780 ). It uses a transmission power of 1200 kW. LORAN-C transmitter...
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  • LORAN-C transmitter Salwa is the Whiskey secondary of the Saudi Arabia South LORAN-C Chain ( GRI 7030) and the Whiskey secondary of the Saudi Arabia North...
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  • 8046889°W / 35.3217528; -114.8046889 LORAN-C transmitter Searchlight was the Yankee secondary of the U.S. West Coast LORAN-C Chain (GRI 9940) and the Whiskey...
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  • The LORAN-C transmitter Havre was the master station of the North-Central U.S. LORAN-C Chain (GRI 8290), situated at Havre, Montana at 48°44′39″N 109°58′54″W...
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  • Enhanced LORAN (commonly known as eLoran; also known as eLORAN, E-LORAN, or e-LORAN) is a long-range radio navigation system that uses terrestrial towers...
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  • Look up Loran in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Loran may refer to: Loran L. Lewis (1825–1916), New York judge and politician Loran Cehack, the fictional...
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  • 47°3′48″N 119°44′39″W / 47.06333°N 119.74417°W / 47.06333; -119.74417 LORAN-C transmitter George serves the GRI 5990 (Canadian West Coast) and GRI 9940...
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  • LORAN-C transmitter Grangeville was the Whiskey secondary station of the Southeast U.S. LORAN-C Chain ( GRI 7980). It used a transmission power of 800 kW...
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  • LORAN-C transmitter Saint Paul was the master station of the North Pacific LORAN-C Chain (GRI 9990). It used a transmission power of 325 kW. Saint Paul...
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    McNamara, the U.S. Coast Guard started pre-construction plans for a chain of Loran-C radio stations to serve Southeast Asia 15 January 1966 in support of Operation...
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    described C. indica as relatively short, conical, and densely branched, whereas C. sativa was described as tall and laxly branched. Loran C. Anderson...
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  • LORAN-C transmitter Jupiter was the Yankee secondary station of the Southeast U.S. LORAN-C Chain (GRI 7980). It was operated from years 1962 to 2010 by...
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    navigation systems was the UK's Gee and Decca, followed by the US LORAN and LORAN-C systems. LORAN-C offered accurate navigation at distances over 1,000 kilometres...
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  • LORAN-C transmitter Kargaburun was the Yankee secondary station of the Mediterranean Sea LORAN-C Chain (GRI 7990). It used a transmission power of 165 kW...
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    obtained by a navigation system, such as GPS or older systems such as LORAN and Loran-C. The original concept of CEP was based on a circular bivariate normal...
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    LORAN-C transmitter Malone was the master station of the Southeast U.S. LORAN-C Chain (GRI 7980) and the Whiskey Secondary of the Great Lakes chain (GRI...
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    personnel. The military personnel operated a Loran-C base until it closed at the end of 2015. Both the LORAN transmitter and the meteorological station...
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    Hellissandur longwave radio mast (category LORAN-C transmitters)
    1963 to replace the 190.5 m (625 ft) tall LORAN-C mast, constructed in 1959 for the North Atlantic LORAN-C chain (GRD 7970). A second, smaller, 30 m (98 ft)...
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  • 42.7140556; -76.8260722 The LORAN-C transmitter Seneca was the master station of the Northeastern United States LORAN-C Chain (GRI 9960) and the X-Ray...
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  • variety of radio frequencies and waveforms — low-frequency pulses (e.g., Loran-C); low-frequency continuous sinusoids (e.g., Decca); high-frequency continuous...
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