On Thu, 25 Nov 2010, Chris Tolley wrote:

Tom Anderson wrote:

On Wed, 24 Nov 2010, Arthur Figgis wrote:

Don't people who actually need it (rather than just like listening to
it) get it via a kind of on-ship fax gadget these days?

I've needed it while on board a sailing boat with nothing more
sophisticated than GPS, VHF, and an FM radio (well, and three smartphones
- all out of range of their networks). Alone, wedged against the tiller,
hunched over the endpaper of a novel in the freezing dead of night armed
only with a pencil and the ability to recognise 'Sailing By'.

If you'd had a radio capable of receiving LW, you wouldn't have had to
stay up so late.

I was going to be up late anyway. A sailing boat halfway up the channel is
not something you can just park so you can have a kip!

tom

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