Decca Navigator Mk 12

The Decca Navigator principle.

The Decca Navigator System consisted of a number of land-based radio beacons organised into chains.

The design of GPS is based partly on similar ground-based radio-navigation systems, such as LORAN and the Decca Navigator developed in the early 1940s, and used during World War II.

Similar hyperbolic systems included the British / US Decca Navigator System used in the English Channel area, the US global-wide VLF / Omega Navigation System, and the similar Alpha deployed by the USSR.

In the past, the Decca Navigator System operated between 70 kHz and 129 kHz.

** Decca Navigator System, a defunct marine and aeronautical navigation system

By this time the LORAN-C and Decca Navigator systems were dominant in the medium-range roles, and short-range was well served by VOR and DME. The expense of the clocks, lack of need, and the limited accuracy of a long wave system eliminated the need for such a system for many roles.

In 1976 the Decca Navigator Company of London sued the Unites States government over patent infringements, claiming that the Omega system was based on a proposed earlier Decca system known as DELRAC-Decca Long Range Area Coverage, that had been disclosed to the US in 1954.

* Decca Navigator Decca had earlier prosed a system known as Delrac that Omega was subsequently based on.

*** Decca Navigator, a historical VLF navigation system

Decca Navigator ( Mark 21 ) and Decca Track Plotter ( the forerunners of modern GPS navigation and plotting equipment ) on the bridge of this ( rather dated ) trawler.

* William J. O ' Brien, inventor of the Decca Navigator System

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The company diversified during World War Two to make radar and the Decca Navigator System.

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This military engineering activity resulted in a number of commercial ventures after the war, in particular the Decca Navigator System, and the Decca Radar company.

Decca employees used to joke that DECCA was an acronym for Dedicated Englishmen Causing Chaos Abroad.

When his Decca co-workers The Andrews Sisters began their engagement at the London Palladium directly on the heels of Kaye's incredibly successful 1948 appearance there, the trio was so well received that David Lewin of the Daily Express declared, " The audience gave The Andrews Sisters the Danny Kaye roar!

point to a joint-venture between what was then Decca, later Racal Avionics, now part of Thales Group, at Shannon Corner and a Korean chaebol in the 1950s as the start of the community.

The ' Opera in Six Scenes ' was subsequently recorded by Decca between March and June 1979 and released on the Argo label in November 1979.

* A 2007 recording was released by Decca Broadway in honor of West Side Story's 50th anniversary.

Later that year Decca producer Peter Sullivan saw Tommy Scott and The Senators performing in a club and directed them to manager Phil Solomon, but the partnership was short-lived.

The Choir has an extensive discography dating back to the 1950s, when it was signed to the Decca / Argo label under George Guest.

In addition to this, another LP was released on Decca ( DL 7-9188 ), and was later reissued by Varese Sarabande on black ( STV-81072 ) and green ( VC-81072 ) vinyl.

This was later shortened to "( We're Gonna ) Rock Around the Clock ", though this form is generally only used on releases of the 1954 Bill Haley Decca Records recording ; most other recordings of this song by Haley and others ( including Sonny Dae ) shorten this title further to " Rock Around the Clock ".

After leaving Essex Records in the spring of 1954, Bill Haley signed with the then-important Decca Records label, and the band's first recording session was set for April 12, 1954 at the Pythian Temple studios in New York City.

In 1989, Haley's original Decca recording was incorporated into the " dance mix " single " Swing The Mood ", credited to Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers, but legal considerations forced the album version to substitute a patchwork of re-recordings from the 1950s and 1960s ( in Haley's case, a 1968 version of " Rock Around the Clock " recorded for Sonet Records ).

The most notable of these compilations was the 1955 Decca Records album Rock Around the Clock ( Decca DL 8225 ) which contained most of the tracks Haley recorded as singles for the label in 1954 and 1955.

In 1959, Haley's relationship with Decca collapsed and after a final set of instrumental-only recordings in the fall, Haley announced he was leaving Decca for the new Warner Bros. Records label.

Two additional groups claim the name Bill Haley's Comets and have extensively toured in the United States since forming in the 1980s: one originally Haley's 1965 – 68 drummer John " Bam-Bam " Lane, the other run by Al Rappa who played bass for Haley off-and-on between late 1959 and early 1969 ( the 1956 album " Strictly Instrumental " on Decca was Al Rappa's first recording session with Bill Haley & His Comets.

* " Thirteen Women ( And Only One Man in Town )" / "( We're Gonna ) Rock Around the Clock " ( Decca 29124 )-" Rock Around the Clock " was initially released as the B-side

The record ( Decca 18698 ) was # 4 to Cooley's # 5 on Billboard's September 15 " Most Played Juke Box Folk Records " listing.

In May 2010, Playbill. com reported Minnelli would be releasing an album on the Decca Records label entitled Confessions, which was released on September 21, 2010.

It was first released by American Decca in 1944 as a four-record 78-rpm set, but was afterward transferred to LP.

The film's soundtrack was first released by Decca Records in 1944 as a collection of three 78rpm singles.

A studio cast recording of the film's songs was released by Decca soon after the film, with Danny Kaye, Jane Wyman, and a backup chorus singing the songs from the film, also including two Sylvia Fine originals made specifically for the album, " Uncle Pockets " and " There's a Hole at the Bottom of the Sea ", and Danny Kaye's narration of two Tubby the Tuba stories by Paul Tripp.

Tiara Records, along with The Shirelles ' contract, was sold to Decca Records in 1959 for $ 4000 ; Greenberg stayed as the manager, securing performances for the group, including one at the Howard Theatre in Washington D. C. After two singles did poorly, including their first release — with Coley as lead vocalist — of " Dedicated to the One I Love ", a cover of The " 5 " Royales song of the same name, Decca returned them to Greenberg and gave up on them, considering them a one-hit act ; On Greenberg's new label, Scepter Records, they re-released " Dedicated to the One I Love " as a single, which peaked at # 89 ; Wayne Wadhams, David Nathan, and Susan Lindsay in Inside the Hits attribute the low rating to poor distribution.

The Decca Stereo format was called ( in succession to ffrr ), " ffss ", i. e. " full frequency stereophonic sound ".

These microphones are not truly omnidirectional at the higher frequences, but exhibit some high frequency lift and directionality which is likely to positively affect stereo imaging of the Decca Tree arrangement.