... *Complementary* is exactly the right word - you won't be able to pick up Galileo signals on existing GPS receivers, which I suspect is flawed thinking. So...
From time to time on this forum we've discussed methods of making electricity on-board - so here's another one for consideration: Yesterday an experimental...
I set up the two databases on this site a long time ago. one is a boat registry and the other a contact database. there are a few entries in their already. If...
... [laugh] I've always found it highly amusing to poke at the "Red panic" wherever I've encountered it. When someone around me starts doing some version of...
... Colin, are you sure? I may be wrong, of course, but as I understood it, Galileo was supposed to dovetail with the current system - i.e., their signals were...
... The Israelis have a system in operation - some 15 or 20 years old, I believe - of hinged "rafts" (two flat sealed metal boxes, essentially) with a linear...
Hi All: I remember watching a documentary on the subject quite along time ago and if I remember correctly they said you would have to have a different GPS...
I once read of a singlehanded engineer who rigged the same mechanism as a self winding watch, but much bigger, to generate electricity for sailing across the...
... And where is the revenue going to come from ? (rhetorical questions - I've already seen the sales pitch). But does anyone REALLY need centimetric accuracy...
... Heck, a spring-type clutch would do - but I do wonder what he used for the (very slow rotation speed) generator. It sounds like it would have to be...
A big flywheel geared up for speed with those nylon gears would work, or with a toothed belt,or several. Brent ... one way ... http://LinuxGazette.NET *...
Hi Guys; If a permant magnet DC motor is used for the generator it would have to be massive to get useful energy. For a small motor you would never get a huge...
Whoops Typo guys - that should have been "would not". As in you really don't need a massive motor. The thing to consider is the almost continual motion and...
A Magnetic Rod traveling through a copper coil sleeve produces electricity.. A small seasaw arangement for the copper coil sleeve with adjustable stops and a...
What are you guys nodding off? I described such a device in a post here several months ago. I even listed the source for the one way cam clutches to put it...
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... Yep - there's been a lot of mis-information pushed around to suggest to the EU taxpayers that this project makes good sense .... There's a good summary of...
... Thank you - much appreciated! ... Nice. ... I find it interesting that the Chinese are willing to throw $300M into Galileo. I strongly suspect that they're...
... A little back-of-the-envelope calculation: a review on that site says "shake it for 30 seconds, and you'll get 5 minutes of light" (I'll be kind and skip...
... Assuming that you could provide the high RPM that those small motors needed, yes - which means a gearbox and frictional losses. When it comes to DC...
... [laugh] Gary, that's a lot of what we do on this list: constantly rehash issues that are important to all of us. For myself, I've got the CRAFT Disease...
... My understanding was that the systems were going to be compatable and that we are already using some of the galileo satalites. I was told that it is...
At any rate it is foolish to go to sea without a sextant , tables and the knowledge of how to use them. Brent ... operational ... pick ... understood it, ... ...
I just put a new plexi porthole in. I left the plastic coating on until the bedding compound set up. I then pulled the plastic off , expecting to find super...
It could be made as small as some generators, rotatable for different point of sail , fore and aft for sailing to windward and athwartships for downwind...
... Not yet - it's still very early days ... At the moment there are only 2 satellites in orbit: GIOVE-A (Galileo In-Orbit Validation Element), and -B. 'A' was...
