The debate is heating up in the USA over the fate of the terrestrial Long Range Navigation (Loran-C) network as a back-up mode for satellite-based navigation systems. An independent study commissioned ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A Notice of Availability from the U.S. Coast Guard in the Jan. 7 Federal Register states "The ...

Here I ponder my relatively useless Micrologic Loran-C receiver — lower right. Now a $146 Garmin handheld GPS tracks position underway. Loran — short for long-range navigation — was developed in the ...

Vice Adm. Robert J. Papp speaks at a ceremony to mark the shutting down of the LORAN-C signal at the Navigation Center in Alexandria, Va., Feb. 8. Both the maritime and aviation communities have used ...

The U.S. Coast Guard's Director of Prevention Policy announced Thursday publication in the Federal Register of plans to cease broadcasting the North American Loran-C signal Feb. 8. As a result of ...

No audio available for this content. Russian military doctrine assumes GLONASS and other GNSS will not be available once a battle begins, so will instead turn to Loran-C for navigation Russian forces ...

CARIBOU, Maine – The Coast Guard is holding a decommissioning ceremony for its Long Range Aids to Navigation (LORAN) Station in Caribou, Maine, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010. The LORAN-C station was ...

Our group will design a receiver that will be able to capture and decode the Loran-C signal maintained by the United States Coast Guard. Our system will consist of three main parts: the ...

Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) have become integral to modern society, providing continuous, worldwide positioning, navigation and timing services through a network of satellites. However, ...

NEW HANOVER COUNTY -- It's a massive piece of nearly empty land just north of Snow's Cut. But government officials and developers can only continue to long for the 210 acres that used to house the ...

Way back in the 1980s, when I was a young naval officer, the Global Positioning System was still in its experimental stage. If you were in the middle of the ocean on a cloudy night, there was pretty ...