Originally Posted By: Russ
As a one time thing to determine declination, that can work too. But it's easy to forget to turn the electronic compass off and then you lose battery life. Another nice thing though is that it's easy to carry a few spare AAA batteries.


Does it need the electronic compass to show bearing? Seems like it could just compute the bearing from one coordinate to another.

I suppose it depends on how they implemented it.

-john