The Coast Guard held a decommissioning ceremony for its Long Range Aids to Navigation (LORAN) Station in Caribou, Maine, yesterday, Wednesday, Sept. 1st.
LORAN-C came online November of 1974, marking 35-years of service.
LORAN Station Caribou was the last station to transmit an American Loran signal, ending the 67 years of LORAN-C.
http://www.piersystem.com/go/doc/778/888991/
Last US LORAN station officially decomissioned...
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My Dad spent a good part of his Coast Guard career on Loran
I remember sitting in a car with him in the mid-70's driving around Seattle with a Loran receiver, a HP plotter, and a map of the city. I was stunned when the plotter drew our path through the city on the map using the receiver.
I think I was the only kid in my elementary class that could explain the finer points of hyperbolic coordinates.
Bob
I think I was the only kid in my elementary class that could explain the finer points of hyperbolic coordinates.
Bob
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