Re: [gpsd-dev] [PATCH] Clean up and update NMEA.txt

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Gerry!

On Tue, 7 Apr 2015 16:17:34 -0500
Gerry Creager - NOAA Affiliate <address@hidden> wrote:

> That's really not completely fair.

When is politics fair?  And Obama did take personal credit for killing it.

> The LORAN decommissioning was on the books for a lot longer than the
> current administratoin. It'd been on life support for as long as I can
> remember (my first GPS project, Cows In Space, Motorola OnCore
> receivers... the original ones...) went that way because we weren't
> sure we could get LORAN signal long enough to complete the project.
> ca., 1994.

True, but then came the eLoran project.  A way to keep GPS from being
the one and only nav system.

> Subsequent administrations have been stringing it along to
> satisfy isolated constituents.

Yup, and some very important ones, like me.

> When SA was decommissioned, it was
> time to pull the plug on the respirator...

Not really, in many places my Loran worked better then my GPS the day
before they pulled the plug.  And with eLoran it might have been
comparable to GPS in most situations and way better in some situations.

GPS is not perfect and a system to cross check it would be goood to have.

> Of course, I still find
> the occasional Cessna with a Loran-C receiver in it, and the
> occasional pilot who still tries to use it for navigation!

Or the occasional Cessna driver, like me, that was forced to update for
no good reason.  Places where I formerly had a good nav signal are now
dark for me.

Or consider all the yachties that also had to upgrade.  

I could rant on, but will pause here...

RGDS
GARY
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