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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