Nothing beats an E6-B on your wrist. Lots of people have them. Very
few of them know. Great way to have fun at a dinner party.
"Pardon me madam: That's an elegant slide rule you have!"
On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 9:23 PM, Graham / KE9H wrote:
> Both the sextant and the slide rule will still function
It's also interesting that they are not teaching/using printed tables. They
enter the readings into a computer to calculate the location... assuming the
computer has not been EMP'd or hacked. It's much harder to EMP/hack a book.
I was taught the subtle wonders of celestial navigation in my
Both the sextant and the slide rule will still function after an EMP event.
Not much other electronic stuff will.
--- Graham / KE9H
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On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 4:20 PM, paul swed wrote:
> Crazy bit of humor/timing in all of this I guess.
>
> Oddly at the last MIT flea I picked up a very nice ast
On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 5:20 PM, paul swed wrote:
> next will be slide rules.
OT, but I have recently dusted off my trusty Pickett to use at the gas
station. The Prius trip computer gives miles driven since last fill-up and
MPG, so miles / MPG * $/Gal = $ to pre-pay, saving a few cents/gal and
Crazy bit of humor/timing in all of this I guess.
Oddly at the last MIT flea I picked up a very nice astro-compass including
case and manual. Also a news clipping that the Navy was restarting training
on celestial navigation. Now I just need to add a mount to the car dash
board.
All prepared for t
Or with the appropriate filters you can shoot the sun with a sextant like the
old time Mariners did
I still have a sextant and still use it along with a copy of Bowditch
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> On Oct 26, 2015, at 9:13 AM, Jim Lux wrote:
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>> On 10/25/15 9:37 AM, jim s wrote:
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>> S
On 10/25/15 9:37 AM, jim s wrote:
Somewhat time related. The Navy realizes that GPS might not always
work. I don't imagine that aircraft in the US Air Force will be able to
do this very reliably, and the article doesn't mention that service. I'm
guessing that a lot of strategic Air Force aircr
Somewhat time related. The Navy realizes that GPS might not always
work. I don't imagine that aircraft in the US Air Force will be able to
do this very reliably, and the article doesn't mention that service.
I'm guessing that a lot of strategic Air Force aircraft have star
trackers that wi