Abstract
A new radionavigation LORAN C chain has been set up in France in 1985. This chain works with two transmitting stations : a master located in Lessay (Normandy) and a slave located in Soustons (Landes) near the Spanish-French border. Therefore this chain can only provide a range to range fix to an user equiped with an appropriate LORAN receiver and an accurate clock.
French Hydrographic Office (SHOM) carried out in 1985 and 1986 two calibration campaigns of this LORAN chain in the eastern part of North Atlantic Ocean. GPS provided the references of position, and of time with a time and frequency monitor linked with an atomic Caesium clock.
Results of these campaigns are discussed here from two points of view : the adequacy of the equipment installed inboard to realize the purposed calibration and the modelling of propagation conditions of the French LORAN chain transmissions.
Paper was submitted for inclusion in proceedings but was not presented at symposium.
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Le Gouic, M. (1987). Calibration of a Range to Range Loran Chain with the Use of Global Positioning System. In: Proceedings International Symposium on Marine Positioning. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3885-4_35
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