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Trinity House & Northern Lighthouse Board & Commissioners of Irish Lights
General Lighthouse Authorities announces UK Loran-C Trials18th May 2005: Trinity House, the Northern Lighthouse Board and the Commissioners of Irish Lights have announced the trial of Loran-C at a BT Radio site near Rugby from June 2005.
A Loran-C transmitter will enable the GLAs to test the efficacy of the Loran-C system in the UK and Ireland and evaluate it as a complementary system to the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS). Loran-C is dissimilar to GNSS in many respects, relying on low frequency transmissions from transmitters on the ground. Because of its different characteristics it can provide an effective backup and complement to GNSS.
Loran-C uses low frequency terrestrial transmissions and provides another source of navigation information should satellite navigation systems be unavailable. The trial will run until March 2007 and the transmissions will be integrated with those of other transmitters in Europe.
The three General Lighthouse Authorities provide marine aids to navigation including radio-navigation for UK and Irish waters. Trinity House is responsible for England, Wales and the Channel Islands, the Northern Lighthouse Board for Scotland and the Isle of Man and the Commissioners of Irish Lights for the whole of Ireland.
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Notes To Editors1. Loran-C is a long-range, low-frequency electronic position-fixing system.
2. The GLAs for the United Kingdom and Ireland, (Trinity House, Northern Lighthouse Board and Commissioners of Irish Lights) are financed from light dues levied on commercial shipping calling at ports in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The GLAs provide a range of aids to assist general navigation ranging from lighthouses, buoys and beacons to a differential Global Positioning Service.
Further InformationTrinity House
Emma Skingley
0207 481 6952
Emma.Skingley@thls.orgNorthern Lighthouse Board
Lorna Hunter
0131 473 3100
LHunter@nlb.org.uk