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TRUE NORTH!!!!!

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Subject: TRUE NORTH!!!!!
From: crb@nanoteq.co.za (Chris R. Burger)
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 08:46:51 +200
> Guys, discuss this as much as you wish, but PLEASE, the correct word is 
> DEVIATION, NOT
> DECLINATION. If the DEVIATION is WEST, you ADD it to the compass indication. 
> If it is EAST,
> SUBSTRACT it from the compass indication.
Wrong.  An alternative term is Variation.  Deviation is something 
else; it's the error in your compass.

Chris R. Burger
ZS6EZ

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