compass and direction of the wind

Greetings Scout, still met with a simple site with a simple circuit scout material for a recall of a scout friends experience it all. Have friends scouts all use Compass? certainly been yes if we often go wandering activities, the compass is one important tool for us to prepare. Well, with regard to the question on the site Gayo Student Notes, the material on the Site we will answer Scouting basic issues of material Scout compass.
How many eyes wind direction?

No one answered that the direction of the wind was no 4, no one answered 8 even 16 points of the compass, it's all true. There are three cardinal directions namely: Primary, Secondary and Tertiary.
Primary Eye Wind direction is 4 main compass directions consisting of East, West, North, South
Secondary Eyes Wind direction which has added four cardinal directions laiya, such as the Southwest, Northwest, Northeast, Southeast
Eye Direction Wind Tertiary very rare in the call is the addition of 8 other cardinal directions namely East Northeast (TTL) how to read it: take the first name of the primary wind direction as T, B, U, S new call skundernya eg wind direction southwest . So the direction between the West and Southwest of the call with the direction of BBD (West South West)
Is that compass?

If you already know the direction of the wind, compass very closely with that term. Because the compass is a tool to determine the cardinal directions or look for.
Who is using Compass?

Many activists are using the compass, from the soldiers, scouts, petuaalang, nahoda, pilots, nomads and others in accordance with the compass function itself
What are the parts - parts Compass?

(Only parsed in general, will be explained in detail later)
Dial, is numbers - numbers that are on the field compass
Visir, the viewfinder is a tool which is an indicator targets, in the form of fine threads in the vertical direction to aim at a target
Dial Close, Shaped line with an angle of 45 degrees to make it easier to determine the direction of the wind if one of the other direction of the wind has been in the know
Strap Compass, compass point to a hook when not in use and can also be used to put the thumb when looking at the target.
Magnifier, to see in detail the numbers on the dial
How to use a compass?

  (Simple)
Place the compass on a flat plane or also be on hold in a static state by the sight
Define a target object with Visir, then lower the magnifying glass to see in detail the exact figures in line Visir
Record the results of the call viewfinder with Check Point
What is the formula behind the Compass targets?

The formula behind the target compass, or often called by the term back azimuth intended to know the results of the target behind the compass (reading back) of a check point which is the position of the viewfinder. and to locate the position of the sights we can use the formula:
If the more than 180 degrees then reduce to 180 degrees
If the less than 180 degrees then 180 degrees plus
If the fitting 180 degrees then plus or Kuragi result will be the same in the 0/360 degrees.
How to know the direction of the wind without using the compass?

There are many ways actually, but we will post in separate material:
By using constellations
shadow Stick
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