Although this is a few weeks late I just received it from the NBF. Looks like it's time to find something to go where the Loran was. Jon From: National Boating Federation Earl Waesche - ewaesche@comcast.net <mailto:ewaesche%40comcast.net> Legislative Director Last LORAN-C Station Decommissioned: The US Coast Guard held a decommissioning ceremony for its last Long Range Aids to Navigation (LORAN) station in Caribou, Maine, on Wednesday, September 1, 2010. The LORAN program was initiated during WW II to provide critical navigation aids to the Allied forces. The service was expanded and enhanced many times over the years. While GPS units are generally more accurate, they are subject to jamming and interference. The termination of the LORAN-C program came about via the enactment of the fiscal year 2010 Homeland Security Appropriations bill. NBF was successful for many years in overcoming efforts to end LORAN operations, arguing that LORAN provided a complement to and necessary backup for GPS. In the long run budgetary considerations and our growing national debt won out. As reported by the USCG LORAN Station Caribou has the distinction of being the last station to transmit an American Loran signal, thus ending the 67 year LORAN-C program.