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I wish to add my support to Kieran Kelly's recent posting about the
interests of this list.

It certainly does NOT confine itself to navigation at sea, and encourages
contributions about other forms of navigation, on-land and in the air
(though it has had few postings about air navigation recently, sorry to
say). We have had extensive and interesting discussions about many such
matters, which include the really expert Australian navigator from the
1850s Augustus Gregory, introduced to the list by Kieran. As a rather
recent member, Frank Reed may have been unaware that Nav-l is such a broad
church.

Kieran refers only to celestial navigation, but of course non-electronic
navigation covers much wider aspects than that, although the topic of
celestial navigation has dominated recent postings.

By the way, a few recent postings have suggested that that their authors
thought that electronic equipment including computers (on-board or back
home) was banned as a topic, but that is NOT the case in practice. The
general practice of the list seems to be to deplore postings about radio
navigation itself: particularly GPS, but including Omega, Loran, Decca,
etc, as being appropriate to more specialist lists. References to GPS seem
to be accepted when they are relevant in our own context, for example in
comparison with other techniques or to establish the errors in more
traditional navigation or in charting.

This is just my own view, and others may differ. I have no authority
whatsoever, that being in the hands of Dan Hogan, who steers us with a
light touch.

George.

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