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Old 02-12-09, 04:16 PM   #45
Munchausen
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Originally Posted by Armistead
Is there away to get speed using sonar. Can you ping, get distance, wait three minutes, ping again..distance...and with those two ranges somehow figure speed with some formula.
If you plot those two points on the map, yeah. Ping, note range and bearing, plot it. Wait three minutes. Ping, note range and bearing, plot it. Measure the distance between the two points, same as if you were doing it with map contancts "on," and then calculate the speed.
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