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Fulkerson Named VP

And General Manager,

Chevron Shipping

Chevron Shipping Company re- cently announced that John B.

Arado, vice president and general manager of the operations depart- ment, has elected to retire, effective

August 1, after nearly 30 years of service. The company also an- nounced that Edward F. Fulker- son, presently manager of the ports and navigation division in Chevron

Shipping's operations department, has been named to succeed Mr.

Arado.

Mr. Arado joined Chevron in 1957, with initial assignments in the manufacturing department. He sub- sequently served in a variety of ana- lytical posts before joining Chevron

Shipping in 1972. He held mainte- nance and engineering posts of in- creasing responsibility before being named to his present post in 1984.

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Expert Inspection is per- formed on each individual part, determining whether they should be reworked, reused or replaced. When new components are needed, they are precision manu- factured to Pyramid Pump

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Qualified Field Support is available for inspection evaluation, removal and reinstallation assistance, shipboard test support, train- ing and troubleshooting.

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ELECTRONICS

UPDATE

A Report On The New Magnavox

GPS Positioning & Navigation System

The new MX 4400 GPS Position- ing and Navigation System from

Magnavox is accurate, compact and housed in a sealed enclosure. The

MX 4400 is designed to a wide vari- ety of today's commercial GPS posi- tioning and navigation require- ments.

Magnavox reports the MX 4400 is a full-featured two-channel C/A code receiver.

Magnavox has designed the por- table MX 4400 system both for use with the current interim GPS con- stellation and with increasing utility as more satellites are deployed. GPS is the extremely accurate satellite navigation system being developed by the U.S. Department of Defense.

Once in full service, GPS will pro- vide continuous position fixes any- where in the world, 24 hours a day.

Seven GPS satellites are currently in operation. There will be 18 active satellites once the system is fully operational.

The two-channel receiver pro- vides continuous GPS navigation, without interruption, whenever suf- ficient satellites are available. The

MX 4400 can navigate with as few as two visible satellites when an external atomic frequency standard is interfaced and altitude is known (sea level) or determined from the receiver's altimeter. This capability extends the number of hours per day that the MX 4400 receiver can be used. To provide navigation dur- ing GPS coverage gaps, the MX 4400 will automatically dead reckon using inputs from external speed and heading sensors.

Magnavox plans to introduce software in 1987 to permit the MX 4400 to accept GPS differential cor- rections in the standard RTCM SC- 104 format. The differential inputs will result in enhanced dynamic ac- curacy in real time.

The MX 4400 is housed in a sealed, waterproof case assuring de- pendable operation, even in harsh environments. In order to provide continuous, optimum navigation and positioning information, the system employs an 8-state Kalman filter which evaluates and weighs satellite data. A 16-bit numerical co- processor provides position, speed and heading updates every 1.2 sec- onds. The system has the capability of providing GPS data to integrated survey systems such as the Magna- vox Series 5000 Geophysical Survey

System.

Applications for this easy-to-use system include marine survey and navigation, rig positioning, land navigation and positioning, search and rescue operation, and GPS test and evaluation. The MX 4400 will be available for delivery in October of 1986.

For free color literature de- scribing the new MX 4400 in de- tail.

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Tenn-Tom Development

Conference Scheduled For

October 22-24 In Knoxville

Governor Bill Allain, chairman of the Tennessee-Tombigbee

Waterway Development Authority, has announced that the 1986 Ten- nessee-Tombigbee Waterway De- velopment Opportunities Confer- ence will be held in Knoxville Octo- ber 22-24.

This prestigious conference will be jointly sponsored by the Authori- ty, the Tenn-Tom Waterway Devel- opment Council, the Greater Knox- ville Area Chamber of Commerce, the Tennessee Valley Authority, and the Tennessee Department of

Transportation.

The Knoxville meeting will be the fourth annual development confer- ence for the Tenn-Tom Waterway region.

For additional information about this year's conference in Knoxville, contact the Tennessee-Tombigbee

Waterway Development Authority,

P.O. Drawer 671, Columbus, MS 39703; telephone (601) 328-3286.

Pekka Laine Appointed

Managing Director Of New

Wartsila/Valmet Company

Pekka Laine, managing direc- tor of Tervakoski Oy, has been ap- pointed managing director of the new shipbuilding company to be established by Wartsila and Val- met.

Mr. Laine has previously served as head of marketing for FINNPAP in Helsinki, in international duties in Warsaw and Frankfurt, and as mill manager for Paperituote and

Tervasaari factory of United Paper

Mills Ltd. In 1981-82 he was deputy managing director of Asko Oy, and took part in the foundation of

Uponor as managing director in 1982-83. Since 1983 he has served in his present position as managing director of Tervakoski Oy. He will assume his new duties as managing director of the shipbuilding compa- ny on September 1, 1986.

Chairman of the board of direc- tors of the new company will be Tor

Stolpe, president of Oy Wartsila

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