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Hi Dan:

I came to this list because of an interest in a number of areas that
overlap Navigation.
You'll see on my web page:
http://www.pacificsites.com/~brooke/Nav.shtml  that the heading is
"Navigation Orientation & Position".
Instrument types might be: Optical, Gyroscopic, Magnetic, Radio.  Under
Optical you might have: Pre-Sextant Instruments, Sextants, including the
periscopic aircraft version, Astro-Comapss, including the automatic
astro Compass, Sun Compass, Magnetic Compasses, etc.  Under Radio there
might be: Omega, LORAN-A, -C, -D (whatever happened to -B?), M.F.
Direction Finding, Satellite systems: Transit, GPS.

I'm feel that a large part of the readership are those who actually use
or would like very much to use sextants in boats on water.
Another area of interest seems to be early surveying of the U.S. and
maybe other areas as chronicled in old reports by the actual people that
did the work.

I have found in other areas that a book list with a paragraph of
comments is worth it's weight in gold.  It gets you to the book you need
and you avoid spending a lot of time going down the wrong path.  This
same comment system could be used to review web pages.  The idea of the
comments is not to say one is good and the other is bad, but rather to
say what they cover and what they don't, if there are errors and is
there an errata to fix them, is it for a novice or someone with many
years of experience, etc.

So, with the above in mind, one of a number of areas to cover is the
instruments used to Navigate.

Another type of thread that has received a lot of discussion relates to
methods of using the instruments, sometimes in ways not found in the
instruction book, so this is another area to cover.

By reading the archives you might come up with common questions that
have been asked.  Also there have been some great links to web pages
mentioned in past postings and you might consider a links section.

Just some thoughts to stir your brain,

Brooke Clarke, N6GCE
http://www.PRC68.com

Dan Allen wrote:

> On Friday, October 3, 2003, at 02:21 PM, George Huxtable wrote:
>
>> Keep on asking, I say!
>
>
> I totally agree.  My proposal is mainly to add a bit more organization
> and structure to our collective ruminations.
>
> So, since nobody so far has said that my idea is completely ridiculous,
> I would like to make a general call for questions.  Email me your ideas
> as to what our common questions are, and what our interesting questions
> are.  I will organize the list and post the results.
>
> Dan Allen
> mailto:danallen46@comcast.net
>
>

   

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