Oh yes the winning GPS was the Garmin Oregon 400c which was the most expensive unit at $750 and had the most features. The Garmin eTrex H is quite good and cheapest at $150. There should be little dif

There is a review of hand held (non-differential) GPS's in the June 2009 edition of Choice. Curiously they ignore the need to purchase maps except for a small note in a side box. The Garmin eTrex Vist

"RRP of $59.95, whilst perfectly reasonable for a book of that size, it is above the price level where people will make spontaneous decisions to buy" Are you sure about that Frank?? I avoid the ARHS b

Isn't there a Garrett in Canberra? (Sorry just had to say it). Dr Iain Stuart Partner JCIS Consultants ABN 15 673 291 522 PO Box 2397 Burwood North NSW 2134 Ph/Fax (02) 9701 0191 (0413) 380116 <mailto

This isn't part of National Archaeology Week, but part of the celebrations for the opening of the City Canada Bay Museum! Every day for a week they are having talks in the new Museum and on Sunday 24t

This will be an interesting thread. There seem to be two levels of "real" GPS's (ignoring those talking melway things) Garmin and Magellan produce handhelds for c$200-400 which claim an accuracy of c5

Looking at the excellent book on Broken hill by O.H. Woodward - A review of the Broken Hill Lead- Silver-Zinc Industry (1965) he notes on p63 that the BHP mine had an electrical haulage line(presumabl

Would the mines at Broken Hill be the only ones that loaded processed ore to railway wagons on different gauge tracks? I think the North Mine and the Zinc Corporation and probably NBHC loaded treated

I cleared and recorded the mill site at Sealers Cove in the 1980s as part of an archaeological project at Wilson's Prom run by the Victoria Archaeological Survey. There were two mills on the site and

I have just spent an intensive 2 weeks in southern Japan looking at Industrial heritage sites. As a consequence I have numerous photos of preserved locomotives and of a few at work (e.g at Nippon Stee

These programs are very much "horses for courses" depending on your time, level of on-going commitment and requirements. There is no correct solution but there is a well proven approach to database de

I actually used to know the answer to this question in relation to NSW boiler records. As I recall they do exist and there was some program to preserve them run through the Powerhouse Museum (unlikely

This is an interesting question which I have been thinking about in connection with brickworks. The purpose of a chimney is to create ventilation so while one would expect it's height to relate to hor

Yes heritage listing does impose constraints on owners; this is to stop restoration that actually destroys the structure that is being preserved. Before such constraints were imposed many owners "rest

As a heritage consultant and former employee of heritage agencies in both NSW and Vic I would say definitely nominate it. Too often sites are well known to have heritage values and everyone assumes th

I have found what appear to be lots of Barlow rail at a mining site (c1884) at Sunny Corner. None of it is "in situ" it mostly is used for structural purposes in the tradition of using old rails for a

I only saw a bit but I thought that maybe they were at HMAS Creswell at Jervis Bay. Probably different phases of the training was done at various bases. yours Dr Iain Stuart Partner JCIS Consultants A

Yes I have been correcting - the problem being that there is so much to do and their text editor is so clunky and lacks a spell check. The beaut things is that the NZ library has the same thing- I hav

I know both places well from my time living in Victoria It is interesting to see the workers huts at Heatherlie now have roofs, I did a measured drawing of one in the 1980s as part of an architectural

I think you will have to look at the Parliamentary Papers which will report on committee investigations of serious proposals. I think there was one proposed from Mansfield to Tolmie as well. yours Dr