NAVIGATION ARCHIVE DIRECTORY 11-17-94 ---------------------------- 4MULAS ZIP 26989 8-10-93 NA Two ASCII files containing solutions in simple Trigonometry for the following: Sight Reduction, Sailing to Weather, Rate of change of Azimuth & Altitude, Time Conversion, DISTANCE -- by Sextant Angle, Short of the Horizon, Beyond Horizon, By BEARINGS (6 ways), Tacking Down Wind, Direction & Speed of the True Wind, Barometric-Pressure Conversion Factors and a Table of Conversion Factors. Plus. ALMNC100 ZIP 63488 3/16/89 NA Weatherman's almanac for all west coast weather stations, includes SR-SS, twilight. Version 1.0 (initial) of new scheme to be improved. Expert author. BEARING1 ZIP 170729 10-03-94 NA An accurate great circle bearing/distance calculator. DEDREKON ZIP 26240 3-20-88 NA Dead Reckoning System from CIS, originally named DRS.ARC. Interesting, to be generous only! Want $35 for very little. New listing, done by XL Systems of Renton, WA DGPS ZIP 15274 7-15-92 NA This file contains the full text of the paper on the U.S. Coast Guard Differential GPS Program, published by the U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters, Office of Navigation Safety and Waterway Services, Radionavigation Division. It does not include figures or tables. Updated April 1992. Included is a July 1992 Addendum describing prototype operational DGPS maritime radio beacons. DR10 ZIP 85931 3-15-93 NA From the shareware NAVPAC Series by PennSoft. Dead Reckoning accepts your current position, speed and course. It then updates your position every ten seconds. Compare your "DR" to a fix from loran, GPS, or a traditional method and you get your set and drift. Requires windows: tested on VGA and SVGA systems. Works great on my LCD notebook. Look for the other programs in this series. Written by Michael W. Madden. Suggested payment, $10.00 EZ-NAV93 EXE 141989 4-02-93 NA EZ-NAV is a collection of marine navigation programs accessed via a common menu. Navigational aids include: Celestial Navigation Time/Rate/Distance, Distance off Fixed Object, Great Circle Intercept, Great Circle Course/ Distance, Rhumb Line Course/Distance, Compute Drift, Intercept Another Ship, Compute DR Position, Star Finder. No instructions for use are provided. It is expected that the user is fully familiar with marine navigation concepts. The author states that this program has not been tested in either Southern latitudes or Eastern longitudes. FA89 ZIP 255617 12-05-88 AS Includes all catalog files, etc. aws FA94 ZIP 95577 2-07-94 AS 1994 Floppy Almanac from the USNO No auxiliary files. GCDIST ZIP 29696 10/30/88 NA Computes great circle distance between two points on the earth, given the latitude and longitude. PD. GPSINFO ZIP 5880 03-05-91 NA Very technical text on GPS (Global Positioning System) satellite navigation GPSINF01 ZIP 2803 06-19-94 NA Here is the overview on marine GPS from the Dec 24,1993 report of the joint DOD/DOT Task Force on GPS. The Federal Radionavigation Plan of 1992 has more info as well. (This extract is derived from a message placed on the CIS Sailing Forum, S3-Navigation). JNAV82 ZIP 115072 2-19-93 NA J_NAV version c8.2..GPS/LORAN NMEA 0183 Nav data display, Log and Simulator. Numerous new features over previous Beta version. User customized display, automatic checksum generation when simulating, extensive logging capabilities. LORAN50 ZIP 144896 10-03-90 NA Manage LORAN navigation waypoint data. MARALMNC ZIP 44982 4-05-89 NA This is a nautical almanac program for the PC that will compute the Greenwich Hour Angle and Declination of the Sun and 57 navigational stars. Star data also includes the GHA of Aries. Beta Test version for Sailing Forum members. Comments on the program are requested - send to 76703,1013 MARINAV1 ZIP 246272 3-30-88 NA The Marinav series of navigation files comprise a three .ZIP file group containing a large number of helpful navigation files and executable programs. Author: Jesse Adams MARINAV2 ZIP 242432 6-29-88 NA Part II MARINAV3 ZIP 205056 6-29-88 NA Part III N2DEMO ZIP 122320 01-28-94 NA NavPak-1 is a chart viewing program with the following functions: coastal and celestial plotting, starfinder, advance LOP, line (specified angle and direction), grid, measure, time-speed-distance calculator, plot markers, variation correction, and various tools for drawing freehand. Included is a description on how to scan and setup charts. This demo is a fully functional version, except that the coordinates and scale are preset for use with the included chart. NAUT15 ZIP 257620 01-21-93 NA Astronavigation program complete with a built- in almanac for 1950 to 2050. It features reduction of sights, graphical displays of the stars and a world map. The graphic screens include constellation outlines, port locations and coastal outlines. Main options include: taking a fix, sun & twilight, visible body calculations, time & distance, ephemeris generation, direction of sun, graphical charting and lists of navigation stars, constellations and ports. NAV ZIP 3108 09/21/86 NA Text file of formula's for navigation. Aviation and nautical NAV-PAC ZIP 67865 11/01/89 NA Navigation Pac. Set of nav programs, celestial and coastal NAV20 ZIP 106922 03-14-91 NA This file contains the description of a navigation program that provides for terrestrial navigation and celestial navigation using a built in almanac for the Sun, Moon, five planets and 190 stars with a precision comparable to that of the Nautical Almanac. Contributions for the maintenance and improvements of the program and to provide online support. Author: Hans Pieper NAVIG94D ZIP 233454 08-12-94 NA Superb Sight Reduction - the Complete System. Has Body Location, Sun and Moon phenomena and much more with two almanac data bases, precision Fix, VGA color Graphics for LOP Plot, Fix Plot and Time Diagram. The program and sub-programs are easy to use True Analytic Tools in every sense. NAVIG94D is a completely functional DEMONSTRATION version of NAVIG94 with full in-line Help, which limits almanac data bases to January of years 1991-1995. UPL'd by author Anthony W. Severdia, AnthonyWS1 on AOL, and 72770,2076 on CIS. NAVINF01 ZIP 15819 9-09-92 NA Manual for logging into the DMAC Navinfo net. (packaged) NAVRULES ZIP 30233 5/11/93 NA This is a very simple and easy to use program that teaches you the various Navigation Rules (both international and inland rules are covered). The program covers lights, sound signals, and dayshapes. Extremely no-frills and not very fancy, but very useful if you need to learn the rules of the road. NAV.EXE RENAMED TO NAVRULES.ZIP UPLd by author. NAVSET33 ZIP 165660 11-07-94 NA This archive contains four files, three of which are related to celestial navigation. BASICNAV v3.3 (BASNAV33.EXE) is a medium- precision sight reduction with a built-in "perpetual" almanac, which includes the 57 navigational stars, the four navigational planets, the Sun, the Moon, and Polaris. COSINES v2.3 (COSINE23.EXE) will reduce a sight by the Law of Cosines after the Nautical Almanac data is entered manually. NAVPLANNER v3.1 (NAVPLN31.EXE) is a sight planning program with a built-in almanac like that of BASNAV. To run, enter: BASNAV, COSINE23, or NAVPLN31. AUTHOR: Stanley L. Klein NAVSHARE ZIP 58691 4-02-93 NA A Navigation assistant intended to assist with calculations. Intended for mariners. Keep your vessel on course, find your position, other useful features. Figure position based on Greenwich Hour Angle (GHA), Declination of the sun, Moon sight position fix, Sun sight line of position (LOP), Moon Site LOP, Star site LOP, Planet site LOP, Star and planet site LOP, Latitude by Polaris, Great Circle Routing, Twilight time, and Compass Correction (Sun azimuth and shadow bearing). Menu driven, written and compiled in QuickBasic. Some prior experience with navigation would be helpful. NAVSIM ZIP 208735 5-31-91 NA Navigation simulator... NAVWIN12 ZIP 748323 6-08-94 NA Navrules for Windows is a simple to use training aid for inland and international navigation rules based on the 72 COLREGS (collision regulation). Learn most of the light patterns, dayshapes, and sound signals used by boats then quiz yourself on them. This program requires Windows 3.1 (or higher) and a color monitor. A sound card is recommended for the sound signals but is not required. Shareware. Version 1.2. PLOT10 ZIP 71092 10/09/92 NA This shareware program gives you quick grid plots for information like rpm vs boat speed. Recommended donation $10.00 POLY ZIP 165751 9-26-93 NA A comprehensive celestial navigation system. Calcs & displays include: Dead Reckoning, Waypoints, Great Circles, Sight Reductions, Four Fix Methods, LAN & Twilight Forecasts, Compass Cards, Star Identification, Star Maps (Planisphere & True Azimuth projections, more. Demo deal only PT971993 ZIP 39223 9-26-93 AR Part 97 of the FCC rules & regs. ... Ham radio PWRNAV ZIP 81051 6-17-92 NA Get out your charts, work out routes to favourite destinations, and record them with PWRNAV. Then print them, neatly formatted, complete with reciprocal routes to get you home again. Converts speed and distance units and magnetic variation. Calculates average speed and time to run. Uploaded by author. SEXTNT11 ZIP 18433 3-21-92 NA Sextant program for Windows. Kinda cute but fraught with computational errors. Requires almanac data inputs. Requires VBRUN100.DLL. SUNX ZIP 21224 12/29/90 NA Sunrise/set azimuth now- more TCDEMO EXE 333779 5/08/94 NA Tides & Currents for Windows is a new tide and current prediction Windows program from Nautical Software Inc. It's extremely powerful, yet easy-to-use. View multiple locations at once, print reports, sunrise, sunset, moonrise, moonset, and much much more. Download this fully functional demo (with limited data). The file is self-extracting. TIDES ZIP 136192 11-15-89 NA Excellent Tides program TIDE20 ZIP 361396 11-25-91 NA Tide Prediction Program. The Program predicts the extremes of tides for all times and locations worldwide. It consists of an explanatory file, TIDE20.txt, TIDE20.arc which contains the executable and some auxiliary files, and two data files, SUBSTA.arc and REFSTA.arc. It runs on IBM compatible computers. Graphics capability (CGA or VGA) is highly recommended. The program is free. TIDES20 ZIP 117211 05-16-91 NA Show tide level, times, current strength for any date, for many locations. TVMDC1 ZIP 79514 10-09-92 NA Quickly solve the never ending problem of converting from True to Magnetic to Compass direction. This amazing program automatically adjusts itself to your last entry and calculates the correct values. Use it to create deviation charts or just to convert from your charted course to you compass course. SHAREWARE from the NAVPAC series by PennSoft. Recommended donation $10. This is a Windows program. WAY2GO ZIP 193281 9-23-94 NA ANSER's WayToGo is a simple Windows based navigation tool for computing geographic coordinates over a spherical earth. Given a starting set of coordinates, the program calculates either a distance and initial heading to a final destination, or a final destination's coordinates based on an entered distance and heading. WEATHER ZIP 131072 01-21-91 NA A nice weather prediction program. Just need about 6 pieces of info. WINTIDE ZIP 18432 03-21-91 NA A Windows 3.0 tide prediction program WORLDSUN ZIP 22610 1-05-88 NA Calculates solar information for anywhere and anytime.