Re: RC: GPS Filet Mignon

["Truman Prevatt, PhD" <truman.prevatt@netsrq.com>]

The digital compass is nice. It too has a wart or two. I have the Suunton varity.
An Electronic compass seems to be more prone to interference with sources of
electromagnetic energy, like overhead lines, etc. Also I have found that if I'm
around a computer alot - hey I use them daily since they have replaced the slide
rule - it wall cause the digital compass to go out of calibration.

But when that happens it is pretty obvious and it is pretty easy to recal them.
If I am going seriouly out into the woods I carry also two good old fashion
floating needle in liquid compasses with me. I always carry a regular compass in
my pack on an endurance ride.

While a sextan is a pain in the butt to use, it works quite well without a
battery.

Truman

PS I can just hear it now someplace out in the middle of western Nebraska this
June, "my kingdom for a battery."

Marv Walker wrote:

> >Hey you guys,
> >
> >  I've got one of those to take on the XP 2001. Am I dead meat???????
>
> Possibly.  If you get lost and aren't found or don't find your way out if it
> lets you down, which it may or it may not.
>
> The likelihood of failure is in direct proportion to the urgency of the need
> you have for it to work.
>
> Timex makes a watch model they call the Expedition.  It is a digital compass..
> I like it.  It isn't as good as a floating globe that can be pinned to a
> saddle pad
> or clothing but so far I have found it to be quite accurate.
>
> I wouldn't depend on a GPS to be my only source of direction.
>
> As we have said before, if it cannot get enough of a direct line to at
> least three
> positioning satellites it won't give you a true reading.  Gullies and
> fairly heavy
> tree cover will cause it problems.  And then there is the battery failure
> possibility.
>
> Marv "If you never know what you will find how will you know when you found
> it?" Walker
> http://MarketingThatPays.com
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