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Following article will explain why commercial pilots are concerned about GPS.
There is a push by the govt. to do away with Lorance and 'sell' the wavelength to the communication giants. Without Lorance and diminishing GPS accuracy a disaster is waiting! https://www.boatus.com/expert-advice...-mess-with-gps
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What is Lorance?
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Here is an article that actually explains some of the issues in regards to the 5G networks (the proposed Ligado network specifically) and GPS frequencies.
https://physicstoday.scitation.org/d...1063/PT.3.4544 I think broadhopper may be mixing up the name. Lowrance is a marine electronics company which is still in business. Loran was a "long range" radio based navigation service which was decomissioned by the USCG in the late (I believe) 80's, and globally shortly after. I believe, however, they may be referring to the L-Band carrier frequencies that GPS operates on. |
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You are correct! I just did a bit more reading on Loran (its been a long time!) It was Loran-A that was decommissioned in the 80's.
I can't speak on behalf of the armed services side of things, but celestial navigation is still very much a part of the curriculum required by many of the USCG issued Merchant Mariners licenses. |
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I spent 6 months in Egypt installing a system for traffic control. I'm sure now that's all gone to GPS. I only mention this due to the recent news about the Suez being blocked by the container ship. I spent many days driving up and down the length of the Suez back in the day. I started at the company as a technician and ended up developing their software for remote control of the Loran-C transmitters, etc.
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