  Entangled coherent states are useful for various applications in quantum
information processing but they are are sensitive to loss. We propose a scheme
to generate distributed entangled coherent states over a lossy environment in
such a way that the fidelity is independent of the losses at detectors
heralding the generation of the entanglement. We compare our scheme with a
previous one for the same purpose [Ourjoumtsev {\em et al.}, Nat. Phys. {\bf 5}
189 (2009)] and find parameters for which our new scheme results in superior
performance.
