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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Interesting, what will they do next? Maybe a sailor standing on the deck with two flags. A camera could still be used to capture the transmission if it was necessary. </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>More interesting for me is what is the need for this that something else already in existence can’t be used for except for covert comms.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Richard</p><p class=MsoNormal>K3UI</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sent from <a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986">Mail</a> for Windows 10</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:radiodog77@pobox.com">Nan and Sandy Sanders</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Monday, August 7, 2017 10:46 PM<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:wfenn4@verizon.net">William Fenn</a>; <a href="mailto:tacos@amrad.org">TACOS</a><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: FW: Remember LORAN? It may be coming back.</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>It looks like Morse code may not be dead in the Navy but with a twist.</p><p class=MsoNormal> http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/navy-ships/a27391/us-navy-morse-code-software/ </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Celestial Navigation has sort of just come back.</p><p class=MsoNormal>http://www.npr.org/2016/02/22/467210492/u-s-navy-brings-back-navigation-by-the-stars-for-officers </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Sandy</p><p class=MsoNormal> WB5MMB</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>At 07:49 PM 8/7/2017, William Fenn wrote:</p><p class=MsoNormal>>Has anyone thought of what would happen in the </p><p class=MsoNormal>>event of war? One of the first things to </p><p class=MsoNormal>>disappear would be satellites and this lead to </p><p class=MsoNormal>>ships bumping into each other. With this in </p><p class=MsoNormal>>mind âold world methods such as watchers in </p><p class=MsoNormal>>âCrowâs Nestâ and sextantsâ may become </p><p class=MsoNormal>>very importantâ since GPS receivers might not </p><p class=MsoNormal>>work. Who knows, we may even need to resurrect </p><p class=MsoNormal>>radio operators and the Morse code.Â</p><p class=MsoNormal>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>From: Tacos </p><p class=MsoNormal>>[mailto:tacos-bounces+wfenn4=verizon.net@amrad.org] </p><p class=MsoNormal>>On Behalf Of Richard O'Neill</p><p class=MsoNormal>>Sent: Monday, August 07, 2017 4:00 PM</p><p class=MsoNormal>>To: tacos@amrad.org</p><p class=MsoNormal>>Subject: Re: Remember LORAN? It may be coming back.</p><p class=MsoNormal>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>> Apparently not anytime soon.</p><p class=MsoNormal>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>> "Despite plans to implement eLoran </p><p class=MsoNormal>> <https://rntfnd.org/wp-content/uploads/NSPD-39-Fact-Sheet.pdf>dating </p><p class=MsoNormal>> back to the Bush administration in 2004, it has </p><p class=MsoNormal>> been stymied by a mixture of cost (an expensive </p><p class=MsoNormal>> network of transmitters that serve only shipping) and political inertia."</p><p class=MsoNormal>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>> In the meantime we could employ old world </p><p class=MsoNormal>> methods such as watchers in 'Crow's Nests' and sextants. :-P</p><p class=MsoNormal>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>Anon</p><p class=MsoNormal>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>_______________________________________________ </p><p class=MsoNormal>>Tacos mailing list Tacos@amrad.org </p><p class=MsoNormal>>https://lists.amrad.org/mailman/listinfo/tacos</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________</p><p class=MsoNormal>Tacos mailing list</p><p class=MsoNormal>Tacos@amrad.org</p><p class=MsoNormal>https://lists.amrad.org/mailman/listinfo/tacos</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>