[BC] GPS recommendations

Mike McCarthy towers at mre.com
Fri Jun 15 20:08:09 CDT 2012


This is LORAN I referred to which is being decommissioned.  There are 
three within a couple hundred miles of Chicago:

Milwaukee, Quad Cities, and St. Louis.  Use of either MKE or DVP get's 
me 6M accuracy on a GPS receiver now 14 years old.

MM

On 6/15/2012 6:20 PM, Tom Taggart wrote:
> May be essentially the same thing, but there is also a
> "DGPS" system which uses long-wave transmitters as a local
> reference for correction to improve accuracy.
>
> There is one near me behind the state prison just north of
> St. Marys, WV on 295 kc.  Short stubby tower--you need to be
> across the Ohio river to see it.



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