Posted by steve on August 08, 19100 at 16:58:04:
In Reply to: Re: LORAN TO LATS/ LONGS posted by Geo. P. Smith on July 25, 19100 at 01:17:04:
I have and will sell you a Computer THAT WILL
convert at the push of a button from LAT-LONGS
to LORAN-C and back. This Computer is also
used as a Lat-Long NAV mode to locate Wrecks
as you trying to fing them, and or convert
any numbers you should need. It has all the
bells and wistles of a GPS and a Loran-C machine
and is AMERICAN made in USA. Are you interested?
400. with instructions. Will ship UPS.
List of Wrecks available if requested.
diveonz@yahoo.com - call today - steve.
: : DOES ANYBODY HAVE A WEBSITE THAT YOU CAN ENTER LORAN POINTS AND FIND THE CONVERSION TO LATS AND LONGS? THANKS
: If you search the old posts, you will find some info on this. Here is a recent message posted by Brendon on this topic:
: I occasionally recieve requests from people who want to convert between LORAN C and GPS coordinates (LAT/LON). For reasons which I discuss in my article at http://www.execpc.com/~bbaillod/navi.html , this conversion is not advisable and yields a nonstandard error of 0 to .5 miles. The error is particularly pronounced in the Great Lakes due to land mass propogation errors inherent in LORAN C. However, I have located a decent freeware program which will perform the conversion to or from GPS or LORAN C for those who need an approximation and don't have the functionality in their current GPS or LORAN. The utility is a DOS program which may be downloaded as an executable. When the executable is run, the program is unzipped to the local directory. I have tested it and it appears to work at least as well as the conversion on my GPS. The utility can be downloaded at:
: http://www.rdc.uscg.mil/rdcpages/software.html
: Regards,
: Brendon Baillod