Accurate timing and simple geometry help your GPS sort out latitude and longitude Issue 7 : Jul/Aug 1999 Almost as soon as radio was invented, it occurred to people that there should be a way to use i...
Coordinated universal time and the mystery of the vanishing 13 seconds Issue 19 : Jul/Aug 2001 The biggest disappointment of my early life, after the Santa Claus thing, was the discovery that “Time Se...
How to mount a heavy-duty vise on a folding workbench Issue 22 : Jan/Feb 2002 There are a few legendary tools that may have little obvious use when you see them in the hardware store but win your hear...
If I were new to GPS and wanted to learn the subject in the slickest and most efficient way possible, finding this book would be like coming down on Christmas morning to find that Santa had left absol...
In the 7,000 years or so since humankind first discovered the joys of “messing about in boats” (in that immortal phrase from The Wind in the Willows), many lessons have been learned to inc...