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Re: Navigation
Posted by: Theo Horsten ()
Date: November 17, 2001 01:13PM

<HTML>Slight correction (had to get me old books! :-)) ):

CONSOL was the name the British gave to the system. Originally it was called "Sonne" - sun - by the Germans.
The complte cycle of the signal was a total of 60 dots and dashes, but you never heard them all. Some were lost in the equisignal. For instance: you counted 30 dots, then came the equisignal, folowede bij 26 dashes. A total of 56, meaning you missed 4, half of which were dots, so you were on a 32 dots line'.

Stavanger was working on 319 Khz, call sign LEC, Lugo, Spain on 303 Khz, and Ploneis, France on 257 Khz, call sign TRQ.
You would need at least 2 lines from 2 different stations to give you some kind of a position.</HTML>

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Navigation Bill Watt 11/14/2001 04:13PM
Re: Navigation Bram 11/14/2001 05:01PM
Re: Navigation Antonio Veiga 11/14/2001 08:59PM
Re: Navigation Parade 11/14/2001 09:24PM
Re: Navigation Theo Horsten 11/17/2001 12:47PM
Re: Navigation Theo Horsten 11/17/2001 01:13PM
Re: Navigation jim king 11/17/2001 10:39PM


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