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    Re: Compass Adjustment - A Cautionary tale
    From: Trevor Kenchington
    Date: 2005 Jan 31, 09:50 -0400

    Kieran wrote:
    
    > I checked this site and this appears to be an amazing development - a hand
    > held compass that can be used anywhere in the world! Doesn't this spell the
    > end of the "zoned compass" such as the classic Silva TD series of which I
    > own one and which sparked this particular discussion? Why would anyone ever
    > buy one like this again? Surely Silva will have to introduce a similar model
    > or it will be out of business.
    
    I would imagine that the market for Zone 5 compasses will dry up, where
    knowledgeable consumers are concerned. But that market was always small
    (more or less confined to Australians and New Zealanders) and a
    relatively high proportion of its members are world travellers. (I'm
    assuming that yachts passing through Zone 5 from elsewhere carry
    "global" compasses, as ships on the same routes certainly do.)
    
    In contrast, most of the people on this planet who are wealthy enough to
    care about a quality compass live in Zone 1 and never leave it -- or at
    least never undertake anything adventurous enough to need a compass
    outside their home zone. Thus, I suspect that the market for lower-cost,
    zone-specific compasses will remain. Which means that Zone 5 variants of
    those designs will continue to be peddled to unsuspecting Aussies.
    
    
    Trevor Kenchington
    
    
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