Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!us.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Joerg Newsgroups: comp.arch.embedded,sci.electronics.design,comp.realtime Subject: Re: Comparing phase of physically distant signals Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2013 11:54:33 -0700 Organization: Consultant Lines: 40 Message-ID: References: <51fd247c$0$64328$c3e8da3$5e5e430d@news.astraweb.com> Reply-To: news@analogconsultants.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net yciXVWWwYwgnh5sER6MXxw/wH51B4kE/ft5CLnAlST8V2y40NT Cancel-Lock: sha1:2hesiedboh/NmnBsO1F8NFUCNTE= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070728 Thunderbird/2.0.0.6 Mnenhy/0.7.6.666 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.arch.embedded:12939 comp.realtime:269 John S wrote: > On 8/3/2013 12:26 PM, Joerg wrote: [...] >> Loran is (or was) amazing. It literally saved the life of a guy at my >> university. He sailed his fathers large boat, alone, in the French >> Atlantic at the end of summer. Woe to whom who gets into a storm there. >> Long story short he got into a lull and then the mother of all storms >> rolled in. At night. He headed for a port but knew that it had a very >> narrow opening of just a couple hundred feet, with massive concrete and >> rock structures on either side. Structures that would have busted his >> boat into smittereens in that storm. He was not religious but turned to >> his navigation screen and prayed. The Loran coverage wasn't even that >> great. Many hours later his boat went right through the middle, he saw >> the two massive structures pass by on either side. He needed the >> bathroom, fast. > > Nice story. I longed to sail the sea, and in fact, I still do. But, at > my age, I could not handle it. > I've heard more of those and lived some easier ones. At university one of my unspoken tasks was to salvage capsizing final projects. When people took on a huge hardware project and got stuck. For some reason a large number were hobby-sailors, even though my alma mater is hundreds of miles from any coast. Once when on a semi-submersible oil rig we had a major strom go through. Middle of the North Sea, all land was far away. We had to go under deck, fast. Then ... *KAPOCK* ... "What was that?" ... "Probably one of the anchors but we've got another seven" ... "So what if another breaks?" ... "If it's at the same corner we'd be in a bad situation". Another "fun situation" was a gas alert. Those can end in a fire ball. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/