> To day that has all changes to Trawler > Riches meaning we now have > enriched our selves with a slightly used great Mainship 400 > trawler. Well congradulations you guys. It's always great to hear of someone getting a new boat, especially one that is easy to handle.

So all you >> have to do is pick a LEO satellite that is easy to receive and measure the >> transmitted frequency, and that is at a frequency where other effects won't >> dominate (ionospheric uncertainties, for instance, probably rule out VHF and >> UHF downlinks). > > Hi James, > > that's easy for you at Nasa!

At 800 MHz, if you were to take, say 50 feet of RG58x (that is the usual stuff you will find in radio store these days) so that you could run the antenna up the top of a sailboat mast, the signal your cell phone puts into the bottom end would be reduced to less than one quarter its strength by the time it gets to the top end (I'm doing this from memory, so you

I cannot thank you all enough. I have added a brief report on findings from the initial year of survey on the project website. The Nightjar Survey Network relies on volunteer participation by conservation-minded citizens, biologists, and other like-minded groups to adopt and conduct survey routes.

To settle an argument, I am looking for an all chain rode anchoring scope table. Chapman's nor the Coast Guard Auxiliary Seamanship manual has anything on all chain rode scope. I need something in black and white. Ralph Salerno M/V ANCORA San Diego

A few local pets, especially cats, die each year from lapping up puddles under cars. They like the sweet taste, apparently. I remember some years ago there was a great scandal about Austrian vintners(?) having added trace amounts of glycol to their wines which hadn't sweetened sufficiently on the vine.

The only thing a 8-10% change in hertz will do is make your electric clocks inaccurate but a low voltage will deal things like AC and fridge fits and if it gets too low the compressors will overheat and could die. Bill

If nothing else, you would probably die from exposure if you were out there a long time. The EPIRB (or preferably, GPIRB) would hopefully prevent that though.

I didn't know this but I did check, being a die in the wool skeptic, This is true. David Skooch Hatteras LRC 42 Worton Creek MD

Maybe just once more before I die? Oh well. Eric Thompson S/V Procrastinator South San Francisco capteric36@sbcglobal.net