Advantages: Robust and reliable Disadvantages: not cheap
...Why choose a Silva compass?
The company that manufactures these compasses arguably Europe’s most reliable compasses, have been making them for 70 years, they are sold to armed forces around the world
Silva compasses are liquid filled and have a sapphire bearing, this results in a compass whose needle rotates smoothly and never has the needle wobble that some compasses suffer from.
Who are Silva?
They are a Swedish company who have subsidiary ... ...I use The Silva Ranger 3 compass, which I would place as right in the middle of the range of compasses that Silva make.
Why do I use this model?
It is called a base plate compass, this means it is a compass that is housed in liquid, and this compass is set into a rectangular plate that has two measuring scales down the side. The scales are 1:50.000 and 1:25.000 (these scales coincide with the same two most common scales used in orienteering or ...
sit2020 05.08.2007
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