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    Two REALLY good videos, in case your GPS fails....
    or: Why I wear a watch when traveling in the boonies....
    A protractor, a pendulum, a nail, and a watch can get you home*, or damn close, if you can remember home's coordinates. 41.0N, 81.3W, is close enough to get me home. If your clever, your could do it with a pair of calibrated galvos and the Sun, but that is a story for another day.
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    *{disclaimer, may take 12-24 hours for a first position fix}
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    Skip the first two minutes;
    https://youtu.be/b7yoXhbOQ3Y

    then enjoy how to do the correction.

    https://youtu.be/rRHhO7Wj4Ik

    followup: finding North
    https://youtu.be/u3l49zQREcY

    The finer points:

    https://youtu.be/ircLt-qvl3M


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    Thanks for the coordinates. I shall align my s hit slingers appropriately. It is after all down hill.....

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    I live on one of the highest spots in Portage county, better part of 1135 ASL. But alas am shielded by a slightly taller hill with a radar tower crap catcher (1180 ASL ) from your direct bearing. Hitting Casa de Mixedgas is thus going to require really good skils at "Lunar Lander". Goodyear might get a bit miffed if they have to wash off the Blimp or their old inflatodome radar test site (hidden in the state park) if you miss. Besides I offset that by 4 miles. So, Mr. Who Flung Dung, fire away... Hitting nearby Mogadore might actually make improvements to that little berg. However if you launched from tower hill in {gasp!} Parma you'd have a direct shot. But who would ever want to be caught alive in Parma...
    Anyways, I'm installing the FB3 and Beyond today.

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