LORAN-C transmitter Gillette

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The LORAN-C transmitter Gillette was a LORAN-C transmission facility near Gillette, Wyoming at 44°00′11″N105°37′24″W / 44.00306°N 105.62333°W / 44.00306; -105.62333 . Its aerial, a 700-foot (210 m) guyed radio mast, was the tallest structure in Wyoming at one time.[ citation needed ]

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The station was closed on February 8, 2010, as a budget cut. The station, and all of the others, were considered to be obsolete with the general availability of GPS devices. [1]

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  1. ↑ "Coast Guard on the Wyoming Prairie Near Gillette". Rapid City Journal . 4 February 2010. Retrieved May 14, 2017.


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