Decca Yacht Navigator 3 -- any use ?

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This unit appeared out of my loft this afternoon. No cables, no book.

A - is it any use ?

B - does anyone want it ? Best offer (donation to Help for Heroes or RNLI)by Monday midday gets it.

I can deliver between Taunton and Plymouth,otherwise I guess it's £3 for postage
 
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Fill it with lead & use it as a doorstop - it's as much use as a chocolate teapot as there are no longer any transmitters for it to receive. But you know that anyway - don't you? :eek:

Send it to your nearest maritime museum, or post it on e-bay as a "traditional navigation unit" with a low start & a high "buy-it-now" price.
 
well now the shuttles gone and 1/2 the gps sats are on their last legs they might bring decca back so I would hang on to it you might be the only one who knows where you are !
 
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Since the EU put us on to metric latitude and longitude, you need the Luxembourg Admiralty Conversion Tables to get an accurate position using Decca alone.

Or of course you could use the differential Decca facility. Just take three bearings by hand compass when in sight of three charted landmarks, then:

- plot the (observed) position on the chart
- note the reading on the Decca (if you can't get a readout - and you might not, bearing in mind Decca has been withdawn a while now - just make one up. It saves time and electricty to write a latitude and longitude on the little window thingies and that reduces warm-up time too.)
- add the Decca position to the observed position
- double the result
- divide the result by two
- take away the Decca position

and the result is your actual postion, accurate to five miles. As across check, it should be close to your observed position.

Note, if the Decca display updates at regular intervals, your position is 1999.
 
jbweston said:
- plot the (observed) position on the chart
- note the reading on the Decca (if you can't get a readout - and you might not, bearing in mind Decca has been withdawn a while now - just make one up. It saves time and electricty to write a latitude and longitude on the little window thingies and that reduces warm-up time too.)
- add the Decca position to the observed position
- double the result
- divide the result by two
- take away the Decca position

Note, if the Decca display updates at regular intervals, your position is 1999.
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:-) :-)
 
sarabande said:
This unit appeared out of my loft this afternoon. No cables, no book.

A - is it any use ?

B - does anyone want it ? Best offer (donation to Help for Heroes or RNLI)by Monday midday gets it.

I can deliver between Taunton and Plymouth,otherwise I guess it's £3 for postage
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A - If it can be wired so the lights come on, I see a spoof looming.

B - My owner is fascinated by devices such as this. He'll happily spend hours trying to get it to work as per the manual. That'd keep him out of mischief while we think up another ploy.

There's a vacant space on the nav panel where the triplicate GPS readout used to be. So, yes, it could be fitted there.

p.s. Does anyone have a remaindered 12v LORAN A or VOR readout? Metric compass? Digital kamal?

:D
 
Well there you go, Iv'e just binned one I found on my boat. Luckily I kept the manual and and antenna, I can send it to you if you want.
 
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