HANG Newsletter - Royal Institute of Navigation

Royal Institute of Navigation
Jones initially calculated it would be only three months before the Germans
would be able to jam the system. As it turns out, it was not until five months
into the campaign that jamming was encountered and longer before it became
a serious concern.
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Readers’ letters
Newsletter circulation
When I circulated the last newsletter I said that I favoured sending the
newsletter to each member so that he received it on his computer as an
attachment to be down loaded or deleted. I thought that the idea of posting it
on the main web site and alerting people to that fact did not actually work well.
I have the greatest difficulty using the web site presumably because I don’t
use it enough. The fact remains that I received various notifications of the
central posting of newsletters but have rarely had the time, or enthusiasm, to
actually come out of my email programme and go the website at that moment.
Dick Clements has recently written to me to express his disapproval. He finds
an attached newsletter to cause his inbox to overflow, to constitute
unnecessary traffic and to not be best practice…
“Whilst I know there are some arguments for distributing the Newsletter
directly to each member of the HANG group, there are also counter
arguments. In my case the attachment causes my inbox to overflow and
restrict my receipt of other things. There is also the volume of (arguably
unnecessary) traffic generated by such mailings. The posting of newsletters
and similar items on an accessible central repository, together with a simple
notification email to those likely to wish to collect it from the repository is
accepted best practice in a wide variety or organisations. For my part, I would
vote for the "collect the newsletter from the RIN site" solution.
Hope it's helpful to have views from the members of the group.”
This newsletter will probably still be circulated the old way – not because I
have ignored Dick’s wishes but because I am short on time trying to finish by
the end of the month. I shall look into publishing the following newsletter as a
link embedded in an email. I want the member to be able to move from
reading his email to reading his newsletter by a single stroke. Until now he
must click the ‘download’ caption. If attachments are replaced by links then
he still only has to make one click – but now onto the link. Either can be done
without exiting from the email programme. The newsletter will no longer be a
threat to the overflowing of the inbox. Two more months should give me time
to find out how to do it.
Pinpoint the Bomber
In the last newsletter I referred to two publications in WW2 by Francis
Chichester. This resulted in an email from Reg Brindley…
Out of interest I have a book printed in 1942 called Pinpoint the Bomber - The
Great Air Game Book written by Francis Chichester. It's basically an air
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