Yeah, and I recall now the system was called OMEGA.
>From Wikipedia:
"OMEGA was the first truly global radio navigation system for aircraft,
operated by the United States in cooperation with six partner nations. It
enabled ships and aircraft to determine their position by receiving very low
frequency (VLF) radio signals in the range 10 to 14 kHz, transmitted by a
network of fixed terrestrial radio beacons, using a receiver unit. It became
operational around 1971 and was shut down in 1997."
...Wayne
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> The two towers were somewhere near Lakes Entrance (Pacific) and Exmouth
> (Indian). I think they are technologically redundant now.
> VLF meant that subs did not have t surface to receive messages.
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> On 24/07/2013, at 10:50 AM, Wayne Harridge wrote:
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> > What was the name of that system again ? I thought there was also a
> > station for that somewhere in Gippsland.
> >
> > ...Wayne
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> >
> >> And was a major link in the VLF nuclear submarine communication
> network.
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