[NLRS] It makes you think, doesn't it?

[Baker, Donn B]

Five years or so ago, the US Naval Academy at Annapolis announced on a Monday that Midshipmen would no longer be required to demonstrate proficiency in Celestial Navigation (use of sextant, etc.) because of the Navistar and other satellite (including GPS) navigation systems.

At approximately 0200Z on Tuesday (ie., the NEXT DAY) the Navistar system went down, and STAYED down for ~36 hours!!!

You can put a LOT of ships onto a LOT of reefs in 36 hours.

73 Donn
WA2VOI/0

Join us for the 40th annual Central States VHF Society (CSVHFS) Conference
27 & 28 July 2006, Bloomington, Minnesota (next to the Mall of America)
hosted by the Northern Lights Radio Society


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> Perhaps they shouldn't have abandoned morse after all...
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