One such Coast Guard station was the LORAN-C Searchlight, built in 1976 near the town of Searchlight, Nevada, in the middle of the Mojave Desert. This station was decommissioned on February 8, 2010, ...

Unlike GPS, keeping a highly synchronized clock over many stations was impractical at the time. So, LORAN stations operated in pairs on different frequencies and with a known distance between the two.

The huge swathe of land might be the biggest piece of largely undeveloped land left in Southern New Hanover County. The 210 acres also is smack in the middle of one of the fastest-growing counties ...