[CA] [CA11] Axiom Pro Loran Coordinates Display on Screen

[Fish On]

How can you display loran coordinates on Raymarine Axiom Pro, and go to with autopilot. Other vessels in Fishing Club have loran, and use loran. Is this function available on Raymarine Axiom Pro. Thanks

[Chuck - Raymarine - Moderator]

Fish On,

For the purpose of accuracy in describing this issue, in 2010, after the US Coast Guard declared that LORAN was no longer required, the US and Canada shut down their Loran-C beacons. Accordingly, any current use of navigation products supporting LORAN TDs are not using a LORAN receiver to determine the vessel's position. All currently operation navigation systems determine a vessel's position based upon satellite positioning systems (GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, etc.). Raymarine's LightHouse 3 MFDs running LightHouse 3 v3.8.105 and later software support creating waypoints using LORAN TDs. These LORAN TDs are then converted by the MFD to lat/lon coordinates. MFDs running LightHouse 3 software will only support displaying coordinates in lat/lon format. Accordingly, should one of the Fishing Club's vessel's supply waypoint coordinates in LORAN TDs, then one may simply create a waypoint using these LORAN TDs to then support navigation to that location.

For those seeking the convert larger numbers of waypoints whose locations have been recorded using LORAN TDs, it is recommended that Andren SeaMarks® be used to create a GPX file(s) from these LORAN TDs. The resulting GPX file(s) may then be imported into the MFD's memory.

[Fish On]

Thanks chuck!! Other fishing vessels with new brand mfd's also have been using loran coordinates to call other vessels on VHF to alert others vessels in the area with loran. (Hot tuna bite, fishing blitz, or Secret fishing spots.) Nice 2 be 1 step ahead of the game with Raymarine! !! Hopefully Raymarine continues listening to consumers that back up Raymarine products, and put our electronics on top!!

[Chuck - Raymarine - Moderator]

You're welcome.