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From: roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
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Subject: Re: Radionavigation system developments
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Date: 10 Jan 90 03:28:26 GMT
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From: roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
In <12886@cbnews.ATT.COM> budden@trout.nosc.mil (Rex A. Buddenberg) writes:
> Initial Loran deployments were for DoD use and the Coast Guard maintained
> a reconfiguration schemes for wartime use.

	Do you mean Loran-A or Loran-C?  In any case, it's interesting to
note that the Russians operate a system very similar to Loran, called Chayka.
So similar, in fact, that (according to the June 1989 Ocean Navigator) they
are looking into the possibility of setting up a new North Pacific/Bering Sea
chain, using an existing US transmitter on the island of Attu near the end of
the Aleutian archapeligo and existing Soviet transmistters at Petropavlovsk
on the Kamchatka peninsula and at Kurilsk, northeast of Japan.  Apparantly
the systems are so similar the existing commercial Loran recievers can lock
in to and track the Chayka transmissions.
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