The LORAN-C transmitter Jan Mayen was a

LORAN-C Loran-C is a hyperbolic radio navigation system that allows a receiver to determine its position by listening to low frequency radio signals that are transmitted by fixed land-based radio beacons. Loran-C combined two different techniques to p ...

Loran-C has been established in 1960 transmission facility on the island of Jan Mayen at . The LORAN-C transmitter

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used as an antenna had a 190-metre tall (625 ft) guyed mast. This mast was built as a replacement of a 190.5 metre tall mast, which collapsed in a storm on 8 October, 1980 as the result of low tension on the guy-wires. The guy-wires were adjusted by personnel from the

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who mixed up pounds and kilograms. Both transmitters on Jan Mayen, together with the other Norwegian LORAN-C transmitters at Bø, and those at Eiði in the Danish

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, were shut off at midnight on 31 December, 2015. The transmitter was demolished in 2017.

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* {{Jan Mayen Transmitter sites in Norway Jan Mayen LORAN-C transmitters in Norway

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