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From: kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov ( Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Flux Gate Compass
Message-ID: <1991Jan28.151158.3192@news.larc.nasa.gov>
Date: 28 Jan 91 15:11:58 GMT
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In article <681@chiton.ucsd.edu> cdl@chiton (Carl Lowenstein) writes:
>In article <1991Jan25.165409.8299@news.larc.nasa.gov> kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov ( Scott Dorsey) writes:
>>c. There weren't any flux-gate compasses used in WWII.
>
>There certainly were flux-gate magnetometers, used
>for MAD (Magnetic Airborne Detection of submarines).

That's true.  I suspect that you'd need a triad of three of these to make
an accurate compass, but it might be possible to construct.  Anybody got some
old coils around and want to try it?
--scott