Posted on 04/14/2019 7:21:31 AM PDT by Libloather
The russkies should be viewed as the state sponsored terrorists that they are, and a first strike nuke attack launched against them.
Worst case? In a war situation we nuke our own cities... Could subs carrying nukes (using the same navigation lines the rest of us use) target our own cities?
Last year I was to a town related to a Russian space research. Drove Infinity QX80 there and its Nissan navigation wasn’t working. Google Maps in android phone didn’t work too. I also have a banking software on a phone which among other things pinpoints a business and location where you spent money with your mastercard. I have no idea is it GPS related or not.
While in a town I went to their mall and bought myself a set of socks and a baseball cap in H&M, a lighter in a souvenir shop then had a burger and coke at food court.
Then checked the banking app and it shown as if I used my card at some random unrelated businesses in Mena, AZ, Freiburg, Germany and Almaty, Kazakhstan all in less than 90 minutes.
I know that this is strange, but I carry maps in my car.
The Obama administration had the national highway people redo the signage on roads and highways and they removed up to one third of some sorts of signage making in a bit more difficult to navigate.
Heretic!
Its just electrons flying thru the air. We can make you think you are where you are not any time we want.
Z-ALL and try again.
I know. I have maps of the states I drive through once in awhile.
It’s a back-up to my GPS unit.
It’s like you have to read or something. LOL
GPS has always been vulnerable, we learned that in the 1991 Gulf War.
But Congress, in it’s infinite wisdom, got rid of all of the LORAN stations, so it is all we have right now.
You left the chronometer out.
I carry detailed orienteer books for each state I go through. I also carry a compass. When traffic gets stalled on an interstate, off I go across country. GPS is not your friend in rural areas.
What book(s) would you recommend for Oklahoma?
Thanks.
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I use Delorme Atlas and Gazetteer. They do not have real detail in cities but rural areas are great. My driveway is even on the Alabama one. I have horses and nothing is worse than being stuck on a boiling hot interstate with a load of valuable horses. I have had to take the “scenic route” more times than I can count. Probably saved lots of bucks on vet bills.
LORAN was a real pain in the a$$
I hated LORAN for all those crappy lines covering up those beautiful charts. Though, for practicality they were easier to use than the LORAN books.
HoMoTo is all I can remember without consulting Dutton.
Man, that was a lotta work just to keep from going off the end of the earth!
Mine are all cheap and outdated. It gets me to the major places I need to go. Looks like I have to reload the data on a couple of them so I’ve got to find the CD.
Yes, sometimes the routes it wants to take are incorrect so just ignore that. It does still let me set my own waypoints for things and that works pretty well.
I think I saw an article a year or more ago that said the Navy is starting to teach navigation again because they have finally realized they can’t rely on GPS in a combat situation.
Looks Good!
Thanks!
I give that a like.
There were no maps of Moscow printed in the days of the cold war. The CIA had street maps without street names made up from satellite photographs, and gradually CIA agents under diplomatic cover would fill in the names. Probably tailed all the way by their KGB minders.
The funny thing was, anyone in Moscow who needed to get to an unfamiliar address and lacked instructions would have to depend on CIA street maps, if they could get one. U.S. and friendly country diplomats could get access to them but not copy them.
“Go down Kursk Boulevard for 3.2 km and turn right onto Kreskinsky Avenue, follow that for 1.2 km, then...”
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