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Help needed please!
By: the gnome-ads Date: May 22, 2012, 1:46 pm
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Can anyone tell us how to 'project a waypoint' on the good old
yellow etrex H
What's foxing me is I can only enter tenths of a mile - can I
change that to feet?
Maybe that's all I can do with the basic technology :-\
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Re: Help needed please!
By: JimJinks Date: May 23, 2012, 3:20 am
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If your 'compass' screen can show distance to a waypoint in
feet, calculate a reverse bearing.
HTML http://www.sandcastle.me.uk/gmoore/anvil%20of%20thought/CSM%20Bearings.pdf
HTML http://www.sandcastle.me.uk/gmoore/anvil%20of%20thought/CSM%20Bearings.pdf
e.g. if you want 500 feet at a bearing of 100 degrees then mark
your current position, 'go to' that waypoint and then walk away
until your screen says you are 500 feet away on a bearing of 280
degrees (100 + 180).
If the bearing you want is greater than 180 then substract 180,
ie 280 becomes 100.
Else use a real compass!
Or if you can take the numbers home use Fizzycalc on your PC
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Re: Help needed please!
By: the gnome-ads Date: May 23, 2012, 7:31 am
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Thanks for that advice. In the end we used a compass ;D ;D
.......and got it right!
Always willing to learn though 8)
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