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- Path: sparky!uunet!news.tek.com!vice!hall
- From: hall@vice.ICO.TEK.COM (Hal F Lillywhite)
- Newsgroups: rec.backcountry
- Subject: Re: Alimeter Watches (Update)
- Message-ID: <10769@vice.ICO.TEK.COM>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 15:44:14 GMT
- References: <1992Nov17.072826.7904@sol.UVic.CA>
- Organization: Tektronix Inc., Beaverton, Or.
- Lines: 12
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- In article <1992Nov17.072826.7904@sol.UVic.CA> dmanke@sanjuan (Dennis Manke) writes:
-
- >If anyone has a new one and has any gripes could you let me know as I'll
- >probably be buying my Christmas present in a few days (thanks in advance).
-
- I don't have the new one but will issue a word of warning. Since it
- measures temperature one would assume the altitude function is
- temperature compensated. Not so! A friend wore his into the sauna
- and found an immediate change in altitude of 300 feet!
-
- What a shame. It shouldn't be too hard to use the temperature
- reading to at least approximate a temperature compensated altitude.
-