For those of you with an interest in things having to do with navigation, the 2009 budget submitted to Congress on February 4, contains language and money to keep Loran active as a means of backing up GPS, and switch Loran-C to eLoran as well as switch control out of the US Coast Guard's hands and into the parent Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD).
This means nothing to those of you who don't go down to the sea in ships (though if you use an ATM, play the stock market, bank or use a cellphone, it should mean a lot), but it does mean a lot to those of us who do.
So Loran is here to stay.
My April column in Sport Fishing Magazine is on the topic, and hopefully my editors will give me the time to update it before it goes to press.
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