Gary wrote in news:aKiQf.130233$sa3.77836@pd7tw1no:

GPS is better, way better.



They remind me of my old ham buddies clutching onto their Morse keys as if
their very lives depended on it. "You can always get through on Morse when
nothing else works.", they assure anyone listening.

That's when I bring them in to watch what happens with PSK31, a new amateur
radio text mode that uses just the sound card and an SSB receiver. It
copies THREE signals slightly off each others frequencies
SIMULTANEOUSLY....signals you can't even detect with your ears...MORSE
ears.

Don't forget to tow your horse trailer, either. You never know when your
car might conk out and strand you! Having the horses in the trailer will
allow you to fall back on older technology.

There's 3 handheld GPSs, not counting what any guests bring, and two
mounted 12V GPSs on Lionheart. There's 4 chart plotters if you count the
Yeoman marking the paper chart from them. I can flip some little toggle
switches in the NMEA network and force GPS data to power the network if any
component, like the multiplexer, should fail. I'd say we have a fair
number of backup systems in case anything short of EMP from a nuclear
strike happens, in which case navigation won't be much of an issue....

Sure wish he'd get the AIS transponder, soon.....(c;