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RADAR
(@dougie)
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Mr. Dean must've had some crazy accurate equipment, or procedure, or both; back in the day...

?ÿ

 
Posted : October 5, 2022 1:58 pm
bill93
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I'm guessing those distances to 0.001 ft precision were the result of computing temperature corrections.?ÿ I hope his right angles were precise 90?ø 00' 00", but I don't see any notation of them as it's all northerly, westerly, etc.

 
Posted : October 5, 2022 2:29 pm
(@moe-shetty)
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only for the first four lots. After that, he used the older instrument.

 
Posted : October 6, 2022 5:55 am
MightyMoe
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I had to look:

It's not the NW4NE4, it's Lot 2 of Section 6:

Lot 2

Just saying

 
Posted : October 6, 2022 6:20 am