Among others, the German Short Signal Code of WWII and Enigma fame was a way of compressing location. So that the resultant messages were really short. Which meant that the Germans accidentally advan… (View Post)

If they had realised how unoriginal it was, they would have done it much better. There are a number of codes for easy reporting of positions in lat and long through history. (View Post)

Which goes back to what a number of people pointed out at the start. They are using a version of what used to be called Telegraph Codes. These were used to reduce the size of commercial telegrams mor… (View Post)

When the saga began, I wondered if it was the case that she was guilty and the unit was a scandal as well. The G K Chesterton story of a murderer who hid their crime by arranging battle on the same s… (View Post)

A former tanker captain I worked with, chose LNG ships. Because, he said, the maintenance was actually done. And if other ships were getting in the way on a crowded strait, an announcement that an LN… (View Post)