Loran Recap Project

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Status of the Loran Recapitilization Project
FAA Team Meeting July 2002 CDR G. K. Weeks
Jr., U. S. Coast Guard, Commanding Officer USCG
Loran Support Unit
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TTX (11 US) SSX (13 US) NSX (1 Pending) LSU
(SSX, TTX, NSX) Control Site (2 US) PCMS Site
(24 US)
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Transmitting Sites

• Completed- Cesium Installs (24 US, 2 Canadian)
• TTM Installs (Master Stations)
• ABS Installed (29 station, 24 US online)

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Loran Station Timing and Control Equip.

• LORSTA Equipment.
• Timing and Frequency Equip
• First Article Testing Ongoing at LSU
• First Production Units Oct 2002
• First Install, George, WA Nov 2002

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Loran Station Operations Room UPS

• OPS Room UPS
• ? All SSX Installs completed.
• LorSta George completed.
• Installation at rest of the TTX sites will
  start after X.25 to Frame Relay transition
  is completed (Spring 03).

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Loran Station Transmitter UPS

• Transmitter UPS
• LSU Baseline completed ? Jupiter Inlet,
  partially completed, transformer install
  pending
• Malone and Raymondville completed.
• George completed
• Grangeville, 23 Aug 02
• Carolina Beach, 20 Sep 02

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Loran Station Transmitter (circa 2003-2004)
Replacement Transmitters

• New SSX Transmitter
• Factory Acceptance testing at Megapulse 12
  Aug 2002
• LSU install Sep 2002
• George install to be completed
  Thanksgiving, 2002
• Kodiak back on the schedule for Summer
  2003.

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Loran SSX Switch Gear

• New SSX Switchgear
• ? Installed at LSU and LorSta Grangeville
• Lorsta Jupiter and Carolina Beach scheduled
  for Sep 2002

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Loran Station Remote Automated Integrated Loran
(RAIL)
RAIL ?5 LorStas participating in Limited
Installation testing. ? OScope Cards contract
awarded Deliveries started arriving ?
Routers finally onboard LSU? Final Form Rail in
FAT
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Network Transition X.25 to Frame Relay

• LORSTA Equipment.
• Routers
• Sprint terminating X.25 services by Jun 2003
  (Dec 2002)
• MCI Worldcom selected to provide Frame
  Relay for Loran
• Installations at the two control sites
  (NAVCEN NAVCEN Det) and the 24 US PCMS
  sites slated to begin August 2002.

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Loran Station Casualty Control Receiver

• LORSTA Equipment.
• Casualty Control Receiver
• ? Locus LRS IIID
• Installed at 5 stations George, Seneca,
  Jupiter, Carolina Beach and Grangeville
• Resolving Master station auto-naming
  problem found at Seneca
• Remaining receivers to be installed with
  final form RAIL installations

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Loran Towers
LORSTA Towers ? Tower Study Completed ?
Critical Port Clarence (1350) PP
estimates earliest possible move to Nome
as 2004-2005
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Monitor Sites (PCMS/SAM)
Completed- 29 PCMS Sites (24 US, 5 Canadian)
Locus LRS-IIID All-in-View Receivers
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Status of the Loran Recapitilization Project
Points of Contact CDR G. K. Weeks Jr., USCG
Loran Support Unit, gweeks_at_lsu.uscg.mil Mike
Campbell, USCG Loran Support Unit,
mcampbell_at_lsu.uscg.mil LCDR J. Boyer, USCG Loran
Support Unit, jboyer_at_lsu.uscg.mil
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Loran Station HP-5071A Oscillators
LORSTA Equipment. Cesium Clocks ? Installed at
all US 2 Canadian stations
DONE
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Primary Chain Monitor Set (circa 2000)
PCMS Equipment ? 29 Locations (24 U.S. 5
Canadian) Installed and operational.