Consol
Consol is the name now given to a navigational aid developed by the Germans during the war. A Consol beacon broadcasts on a medium frequency a pattern of dots and dashes, and by listening to this pattern on an ordinary ship or aircraft wireless receiver a navigator can determine his bearing from the...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0373463300034500 2024-03-03T08:47:05+00:00 Consol Jessell, A. H. 1948 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0373463300034500 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0373463300034500 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) Journal of Navigation volume 1, issue 01, page 29-39 ISSN 0373-4633 1469-7785 Ocean Engineering Oceanography journal-article 1948 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0373463300034500 2024-02-08T08:38:29Z Consol is the name now given to a navigational aid developed by the Germans during the war. A Consol beacon broadcasts on a medium frequency a pattern of dots and dashes, and by listening to this pattern on an ordinary ship or aircraft wireless receiver a navigator can determine his bearing from the beacon with a much greater accuracy than is possible with a D/F loop. The accuracy of the bearings obtained depends on the bearing of the observer from the beacon; it is greatest along a line called the normal of the beacon and decreases until it is zero along a line at right angles to the normal. The useful coverage with the existing type of beacon is about 280° out of 360°. With such a beacon the range over the North Atlantic is about 1200 n.m. by day and 1700 n.m. by night; the probable error on the normal is by day about ° and by night (at ranges greater than 500 n.m.) about ½°. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic Cambridge University Press Journal of Navigation 1 01 29 39 |
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Consol is the name now given to a navigational aid developed by the Germans during the war. A Consol beacon broadcasts on a medium frequency a pattern of dots and dashes, and by listening to this pattern on an ordinary ship or aircraft wireless receiver a navigator can determine his bearing from the beacon with a much greater accuracy than is possible with a D/F loop. The accuracy of the bearings obtained depends on the bearing of the observer from the beacon; it is greatest along a line called the normal of the beacon and decreases until it is zero along a line at right angles to the normal. The useful coverage with the existing type of beacon is about 280° out of 360°. With such a beacon the range over the North Atlantic is about 1200 n.m. by day and 1700 n.m. by night; the probable error on the normal is by day about ° and by night (at ranges greater than 500 n.m.) about ½°. |
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