Its like a flea market / yard sale. Normally held in a soggy field on a Sunday morning at a time all civilised people are still in bed. Its mainly full of old baby toys and second hand electric razors from 1982. Occasionally you find something interesting
Quote from: Neil on April 18, 2012, 04:05:20 PMIts like a flea market / yard sale. Normally held in a soggy field on a Sunday morning at a time all civilised people are still in bed. Its mainly full of old baby toys and second hand electric razors from 1982. Occasionally you find something interesting Ah gotcha! I check our flea markets from time to time, but have yet to come home with anything decent. Mostly it looks like people went to the garbage dump and put it on their tables with prices added. Osccasionly i find old tools that look interesting, but i still dont 'need'.
I acquired this at a local car boot sale last weekend.(Image removed from quote.)Accurate to a degree and I like the fact you can preset declination. Here's some more info.A quick look at the Silva website doesn't show any electronic compasses in their current range. I wonder if the market was too limited?
Now you'll have to get a Schrade I-Quip (electronic compass, altimeter etc) AND an MT as well http://forum.multitool.org/index.php/topic,44390.msg717406.html#msg717406http://wiki.multitool.org/tiki-index.php?page=i-Quip
Woah now that's a serious bit of thread revival!
All of them, even the most basic is more usefull than your electronic device, not talking about batteries.This thing doesnt even have a straight edge to do basic map work or any scales, rotatable housing, glowing marks or some sort of illumination for bad light....list goes on.
According to Silva, this Nomad electronic compass has: "Forward & back bearing memory, off-course indicator, backlit digital display, adjustment for magnetic declination, 5º accuracy with 1º resolution". More here: https://www.manualslib.com/manual/318819/Silva-Nomad.htmlWhat you say above, I would say the same about most of the military compasses we used... and yet, strangley enough, we never got lost and were always able to place artillery fire directly on target from several miles away. I would also say the same about the various globular compasses on the majority of aircraft and ships, which also seem to make it to their destinations without any trouble. As for map work itself - We have protractors and romers that work just fine. Sometimes even better.
5° is a lot when mapworking or navigation. Thats 87m error at 1000m distance.And according to military compass: all of the ones I have seen have a straight long side when fully opened to be used as a ruler when doing map work, and this ruler has a scale on it.When not having a transparend baseplate a protractor indeed is a very usefull tool .I used my Recata DS50G a lot on maps or open landscapes, and never missed a protractor to be honest. I guess when they gave you this compass with 5° accuracy and no protractor lots of your shells would not have hit anything