Is this LORAN?
 

Heard in southeast Texas:

When I tune up from 100 kHz (the lowest my Drake R8 goes) in LSB, I hear
something like a dot matrix printer repeating at about 2 cycles/second.

I can hear it up to about 120 kHz.

It's not coming from inside the radio or the room.

Is it LORAN?

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Registered Monitor BR549
The Shack on the Bayou www.ghg.net/cliffwatts/

Drake R8, Grundig YB-400, Heathkit GR-64 (retired)
Realistic Pro-2006, Bearcat BC-245XLT

"Cliff at the Shack" wrote in message
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Heard in southeast Texas:

When I tune up from 100 kHz (the lowest my Drake R8 goes) in LSB, I hear
something like a dot matrix printer repeating at about 2 cycles/second.

I can hear it up to about 120 kHz.

It's not coming from inside the radio or the room.

Is it LORAN?

Yes.

Sorry to sound dumb...what is Loran?

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"Cliff at the Shack" wrote in message
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Heard in southeast Texas:

When I tune up from 100 kHz (the lowest my Drake R8 goes) in LSB, I hear
something like a dot matrix printer repeating at about 2 cycles/second.

I can hear it up to about 120 kHz.

It's not coming from inside the radio or the room.

Is it LORAN?

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Registered Monitor BR549
The Shack on the Bayou www.ghg.net/cliffwatts/

Drake R8, Grundig YB-400, Heathkit GR-64 (retired)
Realistic Pro-2006, Bearcat BC-245XLT

http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/loran/default.htm

Nick



On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 02:02:07 GMT, "gil"
wrote:

Sorry to sound dumb...what is Loran?