ACKNOWLEDGMENTS and REFERENCES Many thanks are extended to the following individuals who contributed to the content in the Decca section of this web page.
Adams, John - Comissioner, Canadian Coast Guard, Ottawa , Ontario
Barnhouse, Pat - Deputy Scientific Advisor Maritime, DND, Ottawa, Ontario.
Dawson, Dan - former Decca transmitter technician. Nova Scotia
Grainger, Doug - former CDC employee, British Columbia
Jones, David. S., - Litra Manufacturing Inc.Norcross GA, USA
Kuiper, Tom - Jet Propulsion Labratory. Pasadena, CA
Miller, Ian A. - Ottawa, Ontario
Perkins, J. David - Submarine Historian, Halifax N.S.
Willson, Cdr Bob - RCN (Ret'd)
Young, Michael - RCN History List.
REFERENCES
1) International Maritime Organization web page.
2) Racal/Decca web page: www.ravl.co.uk/new.html
3) BR-45 Admiralty Manual of Navigation. Her Majesty's Stationery Office; London
England, January 1964.4) Jacek Tomczak - Janowski's Web page on Decca:
www.heading.enter.net.pl/hips4.htm. The web page was kindly translated
from Polish to English by Jan Bury who lives in Poland.5) Radar At Sea ; Derek Howse, Derek.Macmillan Press, Great Britain 1993. ISBN
1-55750-704-X6) English Chain of Stations and Technical Data. s/n 3368. The Decca Navigator
Company, London, England. 1946.7) Air Manual. s/n 3373. The Decca Navigator Company, London, England. 1946.
8) Voyages Into Eternity. Ian A. Miller. ISBN 1 85821 446 7 ;
Pentland Press, UK; 1997.9) The Journal Of Navigation - Chapter 4; W.F. Blanchard,
Royal Institute of Navigation; Vol 44, No. 3; Sept 1991.
Used with permission.10) David Sparvell (G4FTC) Decca web page. http://www.qsl.net/g4ftc/index.htm
He has some great technical descriptions of Decca transmitting section.