Re: GPS vs WWV time.
Subject: Re: GPS vs WWV time.
From: Martin Ridsdale (martin.ridsdale@XXX.XXX)
Date: Wed Sep 05 2001 - 17:37:31 EDT
It is getting a bit modern, and questionable, if machines, which may or may
not be synchronised, are providing start times for races.
The starter should be "god"! He, or she, will give ten and five minute
flags (with guns, maybe with smoke, or hooters to attract attention) - the
intervals maybe six and three minutes in the UK. It could be late, it
should not be early, but whenever it is the first signal should be when the
race officer is ready to start the race.
If a race is started by one or more "outside" clocks then who is to say if a
boat has started the race early.
