Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-gbm5v Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-23T08:31:32.938Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

The Requirements for Radio Aids at Sea

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 January 2010

F. J. Wylie R. N. (ret)
Affiliation:
(Director, Radio Advisory Service)

Extract

The seaman requires of radio aids to navigation that they should be effective substitutes for astronomical and terrestrial methods of fixing when these fail him, either wholly or in part. For normal peacetime voyaging there has been no firm demand for a radio system that will improve on the performance of the other methods at their best. The requirements for radio aids can therefore be related to the facilities which these other systems afford. This does not, of course, imply that circumstances do not exist in which radio aids can provide a degree of assurance that the other methods might not.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 1951

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

REFERENCES

1The second International Meeting on Radio Aids to Marine Navigation. This Journal, Vol. 1, No. 1, p. 73, January 1948.Google Scholar
2Hogben, H. E., (1950). Marine position fixing systems in use today. This Journal, Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 320–23, October 1950.Google Scholar
3Fennessy, E., (1950). Decca as an aid to navigation at sea. This Journal, Vol. 3, No. 4, p. 336, October 1950.Google Scholar
4Hansford, R. F., (1948). The development of shipborne navigational radar. This Journal, Vol. I, No. 2, p. 134, April 1948.Google Scholar