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Compass reading wrong?
http://www.geomag.us/models/WDMAM/WDMAM_NGDC_V1.1.pdf
No WONDER the damned compass won't compensate! -- "iPad is to computing what Etch-A-Sketch is to art!" Larry |
Compass reading wrong?
It's wonderful, but how do you use it?
Steve "Larry" wrote in message ... http://www.geomag.us/models/WDMAM/WDMAM_NGDC_V1.1.pdf No WONDER the damned compass won't compensate! -- "iPad is to computing what Etch-A-Sketch is to art!" Larry |
Compass reading wrong?
"Steve Lusardi" wrote in
: It's wonderful, but how do you use it? Steve "Larry" wrote in message ... http://www.geomag.us/models/WDMAM/WDMAM_NGDC_V1.1.pdf No WONDER the damned compass won't compensate! -- "iPad is to computing what Etch-A-Sketch is to art!" Larry I'm not sure. It's calibrated in nanoteslas + and - so there seems to be pushing and pulling the card at various magnetic levels that keep shifting, it seems. Zooming in on the Charleston-Savannah area, there are several strong magnetic anomalies of BOTH directions. This chart may also cause the compass to spin in both directions at times....a very worrying condition: http://www.kitco.com/images/live/gold.gif -- "iPad is to computing what Etch-A-Sketch is to art!" Larry |
Compass reading wrong?
Larry,
I can't see that this is overly significant. Please note that the color swing is from +200 NT to -200 NT..(1 NT = 1T x 10 -9) The Earth's magnetic field typically ranges between 3 and 5 T x 10 -5, at least according to Wikipedia. .I use a magnetic compass as a backup only. The cost of satellite compasses today is very affordable. and some also have dead reckoning and a fluxgate built in incase of signal loss. This beats the hell out of the donut you create when the autopilot is slewed to a fluxgate and you sail over a sunken power cable. This can be very exciting. Steve "Larry" wrote in message ... "Steve Lusardi" wrote in : It's wonderful, but how do you use it? Steve "Larry" wrote in message ... http://www.geomag.us/models/WDMAM/WDMAM_NGDC_V1.1.pdf No WONDER the damned compass won't compensate! -- "iPad is to computing what Etch-A-Sketch is to art!" Larry I'm not sure. It's calibrated in nanoteslas + and - so there seems to be pushing and pulling the card at various magnetic levels that keep shifting, it seems. Zooming in on the Charleston-Savannah area, there are several strong magnetic anomalies of BOTH directions. This chart may also cause the compass to spin in both directions at times....a very worrying condition: http://www.kitco.com/images/live/gold.gif -- "iPad is to computing what Etch-A-Sketch is to art!" Larry |
Compass reading wrong?
"Steve Lusardi" wrote in
: This beats the hell out of the donut you create when the autopilot is slewed to a fluxgate and you sail over a sunken power cable. This can be very exciting. .....especially with a bulb on the bottom..... -- "iPad is to computing what Etch-A-Sketch is to art!" Larry |
Compass reading wrong?
"Larry" wrote in message ... http://www.geomag.us/models/WDMAM/WDMAM_NGDC_V1.1.pdf No WONDER the damned compass won't compensate! -- "iPad is to computing what Etch-A-Sketch is to art!" Larry Hi Larry! We just did a job at Ft Jackson. Thought about scooting down to Chas but was too wrapped up with work. Hope you're well. |
Compass reading wrong?
On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:34:11 -0500, "mmc" wrote:
We just did a job at Ft Jackson. Thought about scooting down to Chas but was too wrapped up with work. You haven't *really* been to Ft Jackson until youve gone through Basic Training there. Fond memories of: Double time marching to the rifle range through the sand barrens; running up Tank Hill and Drag Ass hill with full combat gear; coming under "friendly fire" while on a work detail; having a brick of RDX blow up near you on the combat simulation course; being thrilled to get a weekend pass so you could share a room at the Holliday Inn with 7 other guys; etc, etc. |
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"mmc" wrote in
g.com: "Larry" wrote in message ... http://www.geomag.us/models/WDMAM/WDMAM_NGDC_V1.1.pdf No WONDER the damned compass won't compensate! -- "iPad is to computing what Etch-A-Sketch is to art!" Larry Hi Larry! We just did a job at Ft Jackson. Thought about scooting down to Chas but was too wrapped up with work. Hope you're well. Work? Yecch! I retired last year after 50 years at the oars..... I'm doing pretty well, actually. Daytrading stocks is lots of fun but they cut off my SS check because I was too good at it last year. -- "iPad is to computing what Etch-A-Sketch is to art!" Larry |
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Wayne.B wrote in
: On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:34:11 -0500, "mmc" wrote: We just did a job at Ft Jackson. Thought about scooting down to Chas but was too wrapped up with work. You haven't *really* been to Ft Jackson until youve gone through Basic Training there. Fond memories of: Double time marching to the rifle range through the sand barrens; running up Tank Hill and Drag Ass hill with full combat gear; coming under "friendly fire" while on a work detail; having a brick of RDX blow up near you on the combat simulation course; being thrilled to get a weekend pass so you could share a room at the Holliday Inn with 7 other guys; etc, etc. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpKd-N71BfU About 1969, one of my boyhood friends had joined the Army and was going through basic training at Ft Gordon in Augusta, so I put on my best dress blues as an ET1 (E-6 Electronic Technician) and went searching for him at Gordon. I traced him through a few companies and met some nice Army NCOs who helped me only to find he'd been transferred to Ft Jackson in Columbia. So, back in my VW Campmobile and off to Columbia, no Joel yet. Army guys kept saluting me, even senior sgts, because of my ET1 crow and hash mark, I suppose. It was embarrassing! I knew what Army officers looked like! They should know what Navy officers look like! At Ft Jackson, I had a similar great time and after a few more orderly room searches found Joel painting another war mural on the walls of the local mess. Joel's always been an excellent artist, since he was a little boy. That was why he was still at Ft Jackson. They were handing him off from place to place doing murals of wars he'd never seen. The senior sgt in charge of his group gave him a weekend pass and I got him out of the Army for a few days to renew our friendship that went back to when we were babies. When I returned him to the post, the NCOs invited me to eat some Army chow in their NCO mess, making quite a stir as they had never seen a sailor in uniform of any rank/rate and didn't quite know what to make of me, but were very curious about Navy life. As I came off a surface ship, USS Everglades (AD-24), a destroyer tender and had done a couple of Med and Caribbean cruises aboard her, I was amazed at how little these Army guys knew, almost as if Army were afraid they'd defect....(c;] Their major got wind of my visit and also had a lot of strange questions about Navy life. These guys always flew to combat or overseas duty. I left the NCO club late and drove back to Charleston to work the next day. The Army guys had my address and sent me some stuff they gave to visiting VIPs and invited me to come up to their next dress parade ceremony. 4 of us sailors, all dressed up in blues, invaded Ft Jackson and were treated like VIPs by the NCOs at the ceremonies. They even announced us on the PA system for the brass. That was the last time I had any contact with Army until my father, an infantryman in the Big Red 1 (First Division) fighting Germans in WW2 got invited to a great program whereby very old Army vets were paired up with the newly graduated recruits and the Army showed the old vets what it can do with today's weaponry and skills. My dad went every year and talked about it for months until his death. THEY EVEN LET HIM DRIVE THE TANK!, something he found quite amusing because the tankers wouldn't let him anywhere near their tanks in WW2....(c;] Thanks for the memories..... We had no way of paying Army back for the honor of their ceremonies back then. I would have loved to take some of those guys out to sea on the ship and let them feast on the chow in the swells.... Larry |
Compass reading wrong?
"Wayne.B" wrote in message ... On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:34:11 -0500, "mmc" wrote: We just did a job at Ft Jackson. Thought about scooting down to Chas but was too wrapped up with work. You haven't *really* been to Ft Jackson until youve gone through Basic Training there. Fond memories of: Double time marching to the rifle range through the sand barrens; running up Tank Hill and Drag Ass hill with full combat gear; coming under "friendly fire" while on a work detail; having a brick of RDX blow up near you on the combat simulation course; being thrilled to get a weekend pass so you could share a room at the Holliday Inn with 7 other guys; etc, etc. Wouldn't it be great to set up a "survivor" type show around a month like that instead of whining and back stabbing like they show now? Ha! We were outside the wire, namely land on the North side that Ft Jackson has given the VA for a new National Cemetery. |
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On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 07:40:45 +0000, Larry wrote:
"mmc" wrote in ng.com: "Larry" wrote in message ... http://www.geomag.us/models/WDMAM/WDMAM_NGDC_V1.1.pdf No WONDER the damned compass won't compensate! -- "iPad is to computing what Etch-A-Sketch is to art!" Larry Hi Larry! We just did a job at Ft Jackson. Thought about scooting down to Chas but was too wrapped up with work. Hope you're well. Work? Yecch! I retired last year after 50 years at the oars..... I'm doing pretty well, actually. Daytrading stocks is lots of fun but they cut off my SS check because I was too good at it last year. I see that you are selling the old Merci.... bought a new one with your ill gotten gains? Cheers, Bruce (bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom) |
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Bruce wrote in
: I see that you are selling the old Merci.... bought a new one with your ill gotten gains? No, I'm shedding my excess vehicles. There's no reason for one man to own 4 tax/insurance loads. I'm also considering unloading my customized stepvan that's setup to be a combo office/electronics shop, powered and air conditioned. Every time the insurance bill comes in, it seems less convenient to own.... South Carolina has a real punative "personal property tax" on boats/cars/trucks/planes/anything they can identify with a title. It costs the state a fortune just in boats that won't ever be registered here because of the tax loadings. I want a cute little Smart ForTwo car, but am not willing to pay $1000/year in PP taxes just to own one. It's certainly no way to save money from the mileage. Tax on an old car is $12, so owning and repairing the old cars is much more sensible. -- "iPad is to computing what Etch-A-Sketch is to art!" Larry |
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"mmc" wrote in
g.com: Wouldn't it be great to set up a "survivor" type show around a month like that instead of whining and back stabbing like they show now? Ha! We were outside the wire, namely land on the North side that Ft Jackson has given the VA for a new National Cemetery. Just send them to Swamp LeJeune, NC or to the Marine boot camp at Beaufort, SC, and let the South Carolina State Insect have at them. USMC has the answer to "survivors"....(c;] -- "iPad is to computing what Etch-A-Sketch is to art!" Larry |
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On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:21:00 +0000, Larry wrote:
Bruce wrote in : I see that you are selling the old Merci.... bought a new one with your ill gotten gains? No, I'm shedding my excess vehicles. There's no reason for one man to own 4 tax/insurance loads. I'm also considering unloading my customized stepvan that's setup to be a combo office/electronics shop, powered and air conditioned. Every time the insurance bill comes in, it seems less convenient to own.... South Carolina has a real punative "personal property tax" on boats/cars/trucks/planes/anything they can identify with a title. It costs the state a fortune just in boats that won't ever be registered here because of the tax loadings. I want a cute little Smart ForTwo car, but am not willing to pay $1000/year in PP taxes just to own one. It's certainly no way to save money from the mileage. Tax on an old car is $12, so owning and repairing the old cars is much more sensible. My annual vehicle tax, for my pickup and my wife's Honda, is in the neighborhood of 2,500 Thai baht, or about US$ 78, a year. The mandatory insurance is about TB 2,000 for the two cars. Cheers, Bruce (bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom) |
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Bruce wrote in
: My annual vehicle tax, for my pickup and my wife's Honda, is in the neighborhood of 2,500 Thai baht, or about US$ 78, a year. The mandatory insurance is about TB 2,000 for the two cars. I bet I could live quite comfortably on my $US928 Social Security pension check in the country in Thailand..... -- "iPad is to computing what Etch-A-Sketch is to art!" Larry |
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On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 04:04:50 +0000, Larry wrote:
Bruce wrote in : My annual vehicle tax, for my pickup and my wife's Honda, is in the neighborhood of 2,500 Thai baht, or about US$ 78, a year. The mandatory insurance is about TB 2,000 for the two cars. I bet I could live quite comfortably on my $US928 Social Security pension check in the country in Thailand..... You could. It is about 30,000 baht. If you rented the usual one room Thai "apartment" it will cost you about 3,000 baht a month. Food, if you eat Thai food then probably 3 - 5$ a day. For a collage grad starting at the bank, or company, this would be higher then usual wages. However... a Honda Jazz (I think that is a "Fit" in the US) costs about $20,000 and as a foreigner you would not be able to get a loan. A Honda "auto transmission" motorcycle is about $1100, but the bus, subway and "sky train" is cheap. Cheers, Bruce (bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom) |
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Bruce wrote in
: A Honda "auto transmission" motorcycle is about $1100 The 250cc Honda Reflex (I have a 2004 I bought used) sold for $US6,600 in America....just for reference. The same EXACT cycle missing its parking brake but adding an FM stereo into the console made in Shenzhen, China in the SAME factory as my Honda sells at a dealer here for $US2,895. It doesn't say Honda on it, of course. The dealer services my Reflex and we compared them apart during a recent tuneup he did for me at 13000 miles..... I suppose the Tata Nano will show up in Thailand at some point. They'll be in America but by the time they get here the dealers will have them loaded up like a Smart ForTwo and priced at $22,800. We're not allowed to buy a SIMPLE diesel Smart car in the USA. http://tatanano.inservices.tatamotors.com/tatamotors/ $US2500, nicely loaded in India.... ....it even passes the rigorous European crash tests! -- "iPad is to computing what Etch-A-Sketch is to art!" Larry |
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On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 05:38:01 +0000, Larry wrote:
Bruce wrote in : A Honda "auto transmission" motorcycle is about $1100 The 250cc Honda Reflex (I have a 2004 I bought used) sold for $US6,600 in America....just for reference. A 250 cc motorcycle is a "big bike" in Thailand. I was talking about the little 90 - 125cc step through Hondas. They are called "puying hondas" (translation = girl honda). The same EXACT cycle missing its parking brake but adding an FM stereo into the console made in Shenzhen, China in the SAME factory as my Honda sells at a dealer here for $US2,895. It doesn't say Honda on it, of course. The dealer services my Reflex and we compared them apart during a recent tuneup he did for me at 13000 miles..... The Chinese not only make motorcycles, they make cars too. I saw one the other day. Small three door, four seat, things with about a 950 cc injected engine. A dealer had imported some and was marketing them as a sort of trail balloon to see how the demand would be. I suppose the Tata Nano will show up in Thailand at some point. They'll be in America but by the time they get here the dealers will have them loaded up like a Smart ForTwo and priced at $22,800. We're not allowed to buy a SIMPLE diesel Smart car in the USA. I don't know about Tata but the Malaysians are now building a small, Honda Jaz sized car. I don't remember the cost but it is cheap. http://tatanano.inservices.tatamotors.com/tatamotors/ $US2500, nicely loaded in India.... ...it even passes the rigorous European crash tests! US$2500 is quite a lot of money in India. If sold in America you'd probably want to put another zero on the number. Cheers, Bruce (bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom) |
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