27. Mangersta, Lewis. (NB 005 310)
The radio transmitter at Mangersta was a slave station in the North-East
Atlantic Loran-A chain, which provided voice radio coverage to civil
and military aircraft west of the Outer Hebrides. The master station
in the chain was on the Faroe Islands. The Loran-A chains were gradually
replaced by the Loran-C system, with the station at Mangersta closed
by 1985.
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