• Bob Davidson@mastodon.radio
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    11 days ago

    @kyhwana @mattblaze

    Thanks! LORAN A sounded a lot different. It operated around 1.8 MHz. It was more of a droning, like a piston engine airpland cruising along. LORAN C operates at 100 kHz and sounds more impulse or digital to me. I was actively listening in the late 1960s and LORAN A went away in favor of LORAN C in the early 70s. Soundtrack of my youth, along with WWV😂

    • Matt Blaze@federate.socialOP
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      11 days ago

      @wa7iut @kyhwana That’s also my recollection of what LORAN-A sounded like. More of a buzz than a pulse (which is how LORAN-C sounds).

      The Russian Woodpecker (which was actually Ukrainian!) is another of the sounds I won’t forget but that are almost lost to history.