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I think the project is worth doing, but I don�t have the skill set required
to help much with the knowledge base. I will however contribute server space
and setup help if that will get this started. I am already contributing
server space to Dan Hogan and his Nav-L web page.

Maybe this can all be combined into one project on the Nav-L page. Jim
Thompson has what I think is an excellent website in the form of study notes
that he has posted, maybe that can be the start of the text, or maybe that
can be the text and it may stay at his site and links can be established to
his work at other sites such as the Nav-L page. All of that is of course up
to Jim Thompson and Dan Hogan.

I am open to suggestions as to how this should be pursued, I am willing to
spend some time, and money to accomplish what is decided by the consensus of
the group.
Robert Gainer


>From: John Kabel 
>Reply-To: Navigation Mailing List 
>To: NAVIGATION-L@LISTSERV.WEBKAHUNA.COM
>Subject: Re: suggestion for a satisfactory celnav narrative
>Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 09:56:19 -0400
>
>As another cynic, but still full of energy, I suggested the Wikipedia
>approach in an e-mail a few days ago.  That is one way I am prepared to
>contribute.  The other way would be an effort supported on a dedicated
>server that this group can work with.  I am not competent to set up a
>multi-
>authored document on a server, my own or anyone else's.  If someone were to
>set it up, and identify to the group the ground rules and the access
>mechanism, I would again contribute what I could.  I think the Wiki type of
>software could be used for that.  Does the foregoing reduce me to half a
>cycnic??
>
>John Kabel, SN
>London, Ontario
>
> > Andrew Corl wrote-
> >
> > >For Courtney, I am raising my hand to help with this.  Don't know what
>I
> > >can do but here is a list of techniques I feel should be in the manual:
> > >Dead Reckoning Latitude by Noon Sun Longitude using a shortwave radio
>and
> > >the noon sun Sextant operation and how to determine the elevation above
>the
> > >horizon of the sun, moon, star, and planet Sight reduction using H.O.
>249 -
> > >method I am presently learning Sight reduction doing all the math (the
> > >"apex of celestial navigation" according to Frank)
> >
> > As a world-weary old cynic, my opinion is that any offer, saying "this
>is
> > how I think it should be done, and I'm prepared to contribute" is worth
>at
> > least 10 proposals of "this is how I think it should be done, but by
>someone
> > else, not by me". So Andrew's suggestions are indeed useful.
> >
> > No doubt, he expected a bit of nitpicking about his choice of topics,
>and I
> > am happy to provide it. It relates to his suggested topic- "Longitude
>using
> > a shortwave radio and the noon sun"
> >
> > Although proposals for timing the moment of noon, by observing the Sun
> > around noon, reappear on this list at regrettably regular intervals, the
> > fact remains that noon is the worst possible moment for doing that job.
> > Although it's possible to make a crude assessment of the moment-of-noon
>by
> > making an extended set of observations, before noon and after, the only
>way
> > to get a PRECISE value of time-by-the-Sun (and hence longitude) is to do
>so
> > at a time WELL AWAY from noon, so that the Sun is rising and falling at
>a
> > measurable rate. If Andrew were to rephrase his suggestion to read
>instead-
> > "Longitude using a shortwave radio and a time-sight of the Sun", then I,
>for
> > one, would be happy.
> >
> > George.
> >
> > ================================================================
> > contact George Huxtable by email at george@huxtable.u-net.com, by phone
>at
> > 01865 820222 (from outside UK, +44 1865 820222), or by mail at 1 Sandy
>Lane,
> > Southmoor, Abingdon, Oxon OX13 5HX, UK.
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