Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: LORAN C
Message-ID: <1988Apr15.175019.1533@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1454@silver.bacs.indiana.edu>
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 88 17:50:19 GMT

> LORAN-C transmitting stations are impressive!  Output power ranges 
> from 400 kW to 1.2 MW.  Antennas are 600 or more feet tall, with many 
> long top-hat radials...

If you want to see impressive, find a diagram of an Omega station.  It's
just as well that only about a dozen of them are needed to cover the
world; they are *enormous*.
-- 
"Noalias must go.  This is           |  Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
non-negotiable."  --DMR              | {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,utai}!utzoo!henry