[Lf] Re: Galloping Horses ?

[Andre' Kesteloot]

"David L. Wilson" wrote:

> >
> > Hello David
> > I am referring to a number of transmitters on 100 KHz, exactly, and which the British
> > (and the French) call Loran. Their harmonics, every few Hz, go up to 150 Khz in
> > Europe.
> > The British Hams call them "Galloping Horses" as it does sound a but like that on 100
> > KHZ
>
> We have LORAN also in the US on 100 KHz but I have never seen this
> phenomenom.  I suspect either some pecularity of the transmissions there
> or some thing else is the cause.

The Loran transmitter recently installed on the French coast is considered particularly
"dirty" as far as harmonics are concerned. The Brits complained to the US manufactured, and
the result of the investigation was, as I recall, that the transmitter site in question was
"within specs"
Incidentally, when in Nags Head we could hear quite well the Loran harmonics, going up to
about 120 Khz.  A ":cleaner" transmitting station?
73
Andre'