RE: [Paddlewise] GPS errors

From: Robert Woodard <woodardr_at_tidalwave.net>
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 06:24:20 -0500
> Would this discrepancy be due to improper factory calibration of
> the unit, or can a unit slip out of calibration?  Or might the
> discrepancies be due to the installation of the ship-mounted
> unit, or what?  Inquiring (armchair) navigators want to know.

Could the ship mounted unit have been set up to read nautical miles and the
hand helds statute miles? Possibly using a different datum reference?

Woody


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