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6. Does that technology even exist anymore?

Reply to enlightenment (Reply #4)

Thu Feb 6, 2014, 11:07 AM

Feb 2014

Long range radio beacons and such?
Now everything is satellite and GPS. How would that work if you don't have any navigation computers to decipher the data?

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