G.
Linn Roth, Ph.D., FRIN
roth@locusinc.com
Linn Roth is the current President of the International Loran Association (ILA) and was previously President from 1998-2000. He has been a member of the ILA since 1990, has served on the ILA’s Board of Directors since 1995, was ILA Vice President in 1996, and is currently Vice-Chairman of the ILA’s global augmentation for satellite systems (GAUSS) initiative, which facilitates development of international Loran standards. He has lead ILA efforts to obtain Congressional support and a positive Loran policy in the USA, and been Chairman of the ILA’s Congressional Liaison Committee since 2000. He has also been active in supporting international cooperation on Loran and multinational participation in the ILA. He received the ILA’s Medal of Merit in 1998, President’s Award in 1994, and Outstanding Service Award in 2001. Linn is also a member of the Institute of Navigation (ION) and Fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation (RIN). He has published and presented numerous papers in professional journals, meetings, and commercial publications, all in support of Loran as a high performance, multimodal, cost-effective complement to GNSS. Linn has nearly twenty-five
years of experience in the electronics industry, and has been President
of Locus, Inc. (www.locusinc.com) of Madison, Wisconsin since 1990.
Locus specializes in spread spectrum industrial radios for secure wireless
data communications in manufacturing, production, utility, GPS and other
applications, and in high performance, all-in-view e-Loran receivers for
navigation, timing and monitoring applications.
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John
M. Beukers.
Three years after graduating from London University in England, John Beukers
emigrated to the United States to continue a career in radionavigation.
In 1963 he formed Beukers Laboratories, Inc., specializing in the implementation
and use of radionavigation systems. Now with over 40 years of technical
and managerial experience in the field of radionavigation, he is a consultant
to the U.S. Government, the European Union, the Commonwealth of Independent
States (CIS), and the private sector on matters of radionavigation policy.
He has written extensively on the subject of radionavigation and made numerous presentations at international conferences. Mr. Beukers is a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation (UK), a member of the Institution of Navigation (US), and a senior Life Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He is a Director of the International Navigation Association. In 1996 he was elected to the Institution of Academicians in Russia for his work in radionavigation. Mr. Beukers is a charter member of the ILA and was also ILA President in 1977 and 78. - International Loran
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