engineerd™, on April 25th, 2011
Your GPS screen has nothing on this. In fact, by comparison, the fancy GPS with all its technowizardry is quite bland and boring. This, my friends, is a sextant. Before GPS and LORAN the sextant was the primary means of determining your position on the planet.
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engineerd™, on March 1st, 2011
LORAN Transmitter Bank
Near the beginning of WW2, the British developed a method of navigation using radio waves they called the GEE System. The GEE system transmitted radio “blips” from a master and two slave stations. The timing of the “blips” was fixed and maps were developed with hyperbolic lines showing the fixed [...]
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