by Editor | Oct 26, 2016 | Blog
The RNT Foundation has actively endorsed specific legislation to provide more resilient PNT services. In a letter to selected members of the Senate the foundation endorsed HR 5978 which would require the US Coast Guard to establish an eLoran system to serve as a...
by Editor | Oct 23, 2016 | Blog
Photo: By Kremlin.ru Despotic regimes have to be paranoid. Two recent news items show that the Russians are particularly and extremely concerned about the power that GPS and other satnav systems give to both nations and ordinary people. The first is the Russian...
by Editor | Oct 21, 2016 | Blog
Editor’s Note: Don Jewell was a member of RNT Foundation’s first Advisory Council. As a practical navigator, scientist and student of public policy, he was an articulate and insightful observer whose contributions were of great value to any discussion of...
by Editor | Oct 21, 2016 | Blog
The planet doesn’t seem to care about how fast or slowly we think it should rotate. Perhaps it is a good reminder that we aren’t really in charge of all that much and have to accommodate ourselves to the way the world really turns… Once again we are...
by Editor | Oct 19, 2016 | Blog
Editor’s Note: The below item is re-posted from “The National Interest.” It is disappointing to see that, in all the discussions in academia, think tanks, and even by Defense Department officials, no mention is made of eLoran – the system the...
by Editor | Oct 18, 2016 | Blog
Some really smart and clever people are figuring out how to navigate without GPS – or so their headlines claim. Take for example this recent post by the University of California, Riverside – No GPS, No Problem: Next-Generation Navigation UC Riverside Team...
