[time-nuts] OT- RMC sentence and magnetic variation/compensation in GPS module

Mike S mikes at flatsurface.com
Sat Feb 5 23:31:18 UTC 2011


At 12:47 PM 2/5/2011, Chris Albertson wrote...
>But "magnetic variation" can be can be gotten from a map... 
>Compensation would always need to be entered by hand.

Compensation? Please don't tell me they've changed things, and a great 
mnemonic is no more. I learned it as 
True-Variation-Magnetic-Deviation-Compass - TVMDC - "Two Virgins Make 
Dull Company."




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