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Re: Time recording,Russian manuals, etc.
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2004 Oct 1, 10:15 -0500
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2004 Oct 1, 10:15 -0500
Dear Jan, On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, Jan Kalivoda wrote: > Is it not possible to use some > sprayproof sound recorder (a digital one today, not mechanical)? Bruce Bauer, The sextant handbook, describes one and has a picture on p. 141 it records your voice, with exact timing, so you can also tell it the sextant reading. In other words, it works exactly like that Russian assistant. > of observation. This "yest" means "There IS the contact now" > probably, > isn' it? Maybe. But the standard use of "yest" in the army and navy is to reply to a command to do something. That is it is used in the sense "yes, sir". In the case we are discussing, your interpretation is probably right. Alex.
