EmNav Evasion Compass Set
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Not in production yet. We will not take payment until it ships.
Two small, powerful magnets. A compass you can hide.
Two evasion compasses: an aperture (ring) compass you peep through, and a bar compass you float, suspend, or tap on a card. Rare-earth. Two poles. High strength-to-weight. Small enough to sew into clothing or disguise as something else.
All compasses are magnets. Not all magnets are compasses. A sewing needle in a puddle, a fridge magnet, or a disk magnet will not hold an azimuth. These will.
Aperture compass
Tie about 1 ft of line through the hole. Dental floss is better than thread; parallel fibers, not much twist. Hold it at arm’s length and sight through the taper like a peep sight: equal shadow on both sides. Taper = south. Flat = north; verify your compass with Polaris or the Sun at LAN. Let it settle in a breeze. Pick a distant object in the window. That is north. From the side you can take east or west; it is harder without the aperture, and the piece is harder to hide. It may tip slightly down. That is magnetic dip, not a defect.....depends on how far you are from the magnetic pole.
Bar compass
Poles at the ends. Float it, hang it, or set it on a smooth non-metal surface (business card, plastic, glass). Hold the card level, tap lightly. The bar lines up north–south. Sight down the side to a terrain feature, or use it on a map. You can paint the north end red or luminescent. Easy to conceal. Easy to lose. North and south only.
Azimuth, not just “north”
With practice, magnetic north to about 1–2°. At arm’s length, one index-finger width is about 1°. Train that on a known compass before you need it. Find north, then count fingers to the azimuth.
Not this
Not a lensatic. Not a certified nav instrument. Not a toy. Strong rare-earth magnets: keep away from phones, cards, pacemakers, and small children.
Comes with a cardinal card and instructions.
Coming soon. PDF manual emailed when it ships.