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Re: Working a lunar
From: Peter Fogg
Date: 2007 Oct 5, 19:15 +1000
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From: Peter Fogg
Date: 2007 Oct 5, 19:15 +1000
Frank wrote:
Sure do. Perhaps a Casio should be included with every copy.
The text advises (page 9 in the third edition):
"Gone are the days when it was necessary to maintain accurate time using an expensive chronometer. A budget-priced digital watch is adequate."
then goes on to recommend testing a timepiece to establish its rate of loss or gain, proposes having more than one timepiece on-board, and even gives radio wavelengths where: "continuous time signals are broadcast". I wonder how many mariners still depend on those for establishing accurate time?
So Peter, the subtitle of Bennett's excellent book is "everything but the
sextant". Of course, it's really "everything but the sextant... and a source
for GMT, like a cheap watch, or any radio station". See what I'm getting
at?? :)
Sure do. Perhaps a Casio should be included with every copy.
The text advises (page 9 in the third edition):
"Gone are the days when it was necessary to maintain accurate time using an expensive chronometer. A budget-priced digital watch is adequate."
then goes on to recommend testing a timepiece to establish its rate of loss or gain, proposes having more than one timepiece on-board, and even gives radio wavelengths where: "continuous time signals are broadcast". I wonder how many mariners still depend on those for establishing accurate time?
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