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On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Richard B. Emerson wrote:

>Still in use???  I don't think so or you weren't seeing SATNAV.  The
>Transit satellites have been shut down.  I've lost track of the URL
>but I think NavCen had some pieces about pulling the plug on the
>satellites.  Anyway, the point is the satellites are silent.  Maybe
>you were seeing Omega or some other system?

Omega is gone too!

-- Richard Langley

>After the QE2 taking the bottom on a rock off Nantucket and a couple
>of similar groundings from blindly following the data on a nav
>console, any captain who doesn't wear suspenders, a belt, and a
>skyhook to keep his or her navigational pants up is asking for
>problems.  Your observation suggests at least one captain so
>equipped. [s]
>
>Rick
>S/V One With The Wind, Baba 35
>
>Young, Derrick writes:
> > Rick,
> >
> > I understand your comment about SATNAV - but I was on a cruise ship recently
> > and they still had the equipment and it was still in use.  Like many
> > mariners - we seem to keep the old stuff "just in case."  I still found
> > folks onboard that thought it was funny that the quartermaster was taking
> > dawn/noon and dusk shots with a sextant and then working out the position
> > (by hand!) to confirm what the position that the GPS and LORAN-C were
> > reporting.
> >
> > It felt good (to me) to see their accuracy was a bit better than mine (lots
> > more practice!).
> >
> > derrick
>


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