On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 15:57:08 -0800 (PST), Derek
wrote:

But it is midway between the pole's on the other side of the
globe, which is more to the point of Art"s observation than your nit
picking.

Howland Island is near dead on the Equator, Bermuda is not even close.
Howland Island is near dead on the international date line, Bermuda is
nowhere near the Prime Meridian (opposite side). The opposite side of
the Earth for Howland Island would be south of the Ivory Coast in
Central-West Africa!

I have sailed in the Bermuda triangle many times (to no shocking
results) and Bermuda is three times closer to Boston than Quito
Ecuador which is midway between the poles.

Bermuda is also on 65 degrees West longitude, 180 degrees away (or 115
degrees East longitude) is the Indian Ocean, not the Pacific (and I've
been to both oceans too, crossing the full Pacific twice before I was
8 years old).

If nit picking amounts to a difference of 8000 kilometers, you must
have your money on one hell of a spread.

This doesn't bode well for Art's magnetic compass correction factors.
Even Gauss could tell the difference between the Indian Ocean and the
Pacific Ocean (and he would have looked at a globe first before
uttering this foolishness).

After all, this is really very simple stuff, but I guess you have to
have been there to appreciate these nit picking issues.

As for diamagnetic curls of the magnetic field, if no one responded to
this baloney, Art's ideas would die miserable solitary lives. Laughing
at them is about the best currency exchange he can hope for.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC