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RE: London flying boats
Posted by:
Ragnar J. Ragnarsson
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Date: March 27, 2001 11:04PM
<HTML>Reiner,
These positions are a real headache I dsicovered. They way I understand, they consisted of a group of 4 letters followed by another of 4 numbers, e.g. PMGB 1912. The letters were codes for lat. and long., the first two letters for lat. and the second two letters for long. The 4 letter number group is minutes of lat. and long.
The problem is these codes were apparently changed every few days. I can understand why one would want to code these positions for radio transmission, but why on earth enter them coded in the Operations Recod Books?
Ragnar</HTML>
These positions are a real headache I dsicovered. They way I understand, they consisted of a group of 4 letters followed by another of 4 numbers, e.g. PMGB 1912. The letters were codes for lat. and long., the first two letters for lat. and the second two letters for long. The 4 letter number group is minutes of lat. and long.
The problem is these codes were apparently changed every few days. I can understand why one would want to code these positions for radio transmission, but why on earth enter them coded in the Operations Recod Books?
Ragnar</HTML>
Subject | Written By | Posted |
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London flying boats | Rainer Kolbicz | 03/27/2001 06:56PM |
RE: London flying boats | Ragnar J. Ragnarsson | 03/27/2001 11:04PM |
RE: London flying boats | Rainer Kolbicz | 03/28/2001 07:40PM |
RE: London flying boats | James stewart | 03/28/2001 10:35PM |
RE: London flying boats | Rainer Kolbicz | 03/30/2001 05:08AM |
RE: London flying boats | James stewart | 03/31/2001 08:43AM |
No. 209 & 240 Sqdn | Ragnar J. Ragnarsson | 03/30/2001 10:24AM |