Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] UW-DGPS

["Captain Nemo" <vulcania@interpac.net>]

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From: <VBra676539@aol.com>
To: <personal_submersibles@psubs.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2000 12:21 AM
Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] UW-DGPS


> Carsten & Pat,
>
> I know there is an integral system on the market, PC driven, which
connects
> the GPS link and an acoustic link from a tracking system by computer and
then
> tells everybody where everybody is. Trust me, we can't afford it. Woods
Hole
> uses it, and IFREMER, but not Harbor Branch (too many $$$).
>
> I have used radios, both VHF and CB to about 50 fsw, but not deeper. There
> has to be a way to convert the GPS signal to acoustic and broadcast to the
> sub, but all that stuff was mighty Flash Gordon in my operational day.
Maybe
> Phil will read this and chip in. He uses computers to control the DWs, and
> will be up to snuff on current events along these lines (if there are
any).
>
> Best Regards,
> Vance
>

Thanks Vance,

As an electronics tech, I make a pretty fair welder.  So if anyone can come
up with a way of doing this, and explain it to me in "basic clod English",
I'd sure appreciate it!

VBR,

Pat