35°19′18.31″N 114°48′16.88″W / 35.3217528°N 114.8046889°W LORAN-C transmitter Searchlight was the Yankee secondary of the U.S. West Coast LORAN-C Chain (GRI 9940) and the Whiskey secondary of the South Central U.S. Chain (GRI 9610).[1] The station, established in 1976, consisted of four 700-foot (210 m) transmission towers. It transmitted 540 kW from 13.5 miles (21.7 km) south of Searchlight, Nevada. There were five active duty and 2 reserve duty Coast Guard personnel stationed at LORSTA Searchlight. The station's Officer in Charge was a Chief Electronics Technician.
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 systems.[2]
The four masts were demolished.
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- ^ "LORAN-C NAVIGATION SYSTEM" (PDF). Retrieved 2009-12-07.
- ^ Keith Rogers (2010-03-31). "GPS blows Coast Guard stations out of the desert". Las Vegas Review-Journal.