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From: Alexandre Eremenko (no email)
Date: Fri Oct 01 2004 - 11:15:51 EDT
Dear Jan,
On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, Jan Kalivoda wrote:
> Is it not possible to use some
> sprayproof sound recorder (a digital one today, not mechanical)?
Bruce Bauer, The sextant handbook,
describes one and has a picture on p. 141 it records
your voice, with exact timing,
so you can also tell it the sextant
reading.
In other words, it works exactly like that Russian assistant.
> of observation. This "yest" means "There IS the contact now"
> probably,
> isn' it?
Maybe. But the standard use of "yest" in the army and navy
is to reply to a command to do something.
That is it is used in the sense "yes, sir".
In the case we are discussing, your interpretation is probably right.
Alex.
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