Can anyone remember the Ocean Stations...that is, 'Delta', or 'Charlie', etc? Navigators promised to pass personal messages for operators for a good fix. How many weeks did these people stay out there, stationery, giving fix after fix? How about the olde military ATC callsigns...Fuchu, Elmendorf, Saigon, Loring, McDill, Lajes, etc? How about "Sky King, Sky King, this is Fuchu Fuchu, Break Break"...and then, codes requiring authentication? And...the hope was, no fail-safe message resulted in the 'Pickens ride to Destiny'! Consolan, Loran 'C'; I don't remember 411A's 'A', guess he's that much older, the time when the NAT's went both ways each 12 hours. Times when the nav was, if the Captain was competent, the ACTUAL Commander (They were always the MENSA contingent of the crew anyway). Sam the Whippersnapper