Testing and practice all make sense but what isn't making sense about this is that we're disrupting GPS. Lots of stuff other than military rely on GPS and - just my humble opinion - It seems a little freaky that they are testing commercial aircraft.
Wouldn't as valid a test simply be to turn off the GPS receiver? I mean testing for a power outage at a commercial data center doesn't require turning off power to the city. It all kind of seems strange to me. Kev On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 5:07 PM, Ron D'Eau Claire <[email protected]> wrote: > When I was servicing shipboard electronics systems in the 90's, one of my > regular "charges" as a civilian contractor was the Naval Hospital ship USNS > Mercy ported in San Francisco, CA. I went to sea on her several times to > check/calibrate nav systems, radars, direction finders, GPS gear, etc. > under > operational conditions. > > On one trip I noticed officers on the grabbing sextants and heading out > onto > the bridge wings. I asked the Captain if the US Navy still used sextants to > navigate in this day and age. He smiled and said, "If we go to war, most of > that stuff up there (pointing to the sky) will be disabled in the first > hour. My officers will know how to get us wherever we're needed without > it!" > > > 73, Ron AC7AC > > -----Original Message----- > From: Elecraft [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > brian > Sent: Friday, June 10, 2016 1:50 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Elecraft] This will effect pilots and Hams throughout the > Western US > > Related to this. The Naval Academy has started teaching Celestial > Navigation again. It had been discontinued. > > The Coast Guard never discontinued it. > > I also understand the old surplussed 10 kW Collins HF transmitters are > being > reacquired by the military. Can teaching of CW be next? > > 73 de Brian/K3KO > > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected] > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
