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TRUE NORTH QUERY

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Subject: TRUE NORTH QUERY
From: k1jks@juno.com (William G Bithell)
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 23:28:49 EST
OH NO!!!!  Not this again!  Get a boy scout to show you the big dipper
and locate the north star (polaris)   
You can easily be off 30 degrees with a compass.


On M  on, 6 Jan 1997 21:45:38 -0500 "M. Gray Brafford"
<brad4@roanoke.infi.net> writes:
>I hate to bring this up because last time someone asked this question 
>on
>packet, the troops RAVED for weeks. Anyway here goes; anyone know a 
>quick
>and dirty way of locating true North? Can it be as simple as adding an 
>x
>number of degrees one way or the other to a compass north reading?
>What say you?
>Mick...W4YV
>
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