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Features
- Professional compass with high precision and reliable functions, Mirror for direction finding and signalling, With clinometer
- Alignment to the North, Good legibility in poor lighting conditions due to luminous markings, Adjustable declination correction, Made in Finland
- Base plate with magnifier, USGS UTM scales, bearing hole and rear sight, Detachable carrying cord with snap lock, No batteries required
- High-quality stainless steel needle with jewel bearing, Liquid-filled capsule for stable operation, Plastic bezel
- Contents: 1x Suunto MC-2 NH USGS Mirror Compass, Incl. carrying cord, key for declination correction, quick release fastener, brief instructions, Colour: Transparent/Black, Dimensions: 65 x 101 x 18 mm, Weight: 74 g, Bezel Material: Plastic
Description
Accurate and Reliable Mirror Compasses The MC range of mirror compasses provides an invaluable tool for those who place a particular premium on accurate and reliable directional measurements; for example surveyors, miners, architects, rescue patrols, hikers, boaters and the military. The declination adjustment system, standard throughout the range, is especially useful when working in areas of large magnetic variation, while the sighting notch provides superior accuracy. The MC-2 model is also available with the Global Balancing System. Field compasses in general Mechanical compasses have been working as the navigator since several thousands of years. Still today magnetic compass is environmentally friendly, cheap and the most reliable tool when choosing the course. The oldest Suunto field compasses, which are still in use, are manufactured in 1938. A high quality field compass hardly needs any other service than washing in fresh water from time to time. The compass works without any external power supply. The compass gets its power from nature - from the magnetic north pole. COMPASS BALANCING Two Geographical Balancing Zones The vertical intensity and direction of the earth's magnetic field, the inclination, influences the horizontal plane of a compass needle according to the latitude where it is used. Due to inclination, compasses must be balanced for different geographical zones in order to keep the needle in a horizontal position.
Item Package Dimensions L x W x H: 9.33 x 3.62 x 0.98 inches
Package Weight: 0.13 Kilograms
Item Dimensions LxWxH: 9.45 x 3.62 x 0.98 inches
Item Weight: 74 Grams
Brand Name: SUUNTO
Model Name: Mc-2 Nh Usgs Mirror Compass
Color: White
Material: Plastic Stainless Steel
Suggested Users: unisex
Number of Items: 1
Manufacturer: Suunto
Part Number: SS004239001
Model Year: 2016
Style: Mc-2 Nh Usgs Mirror Compass
Included Components: compass
Size: One Size
Sport Type: Sports Technology
Date First Available: May 26, 2006
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Color: White
Easy to use and the degrees are easy to read. I compare this to my Brunton TruArc 15. The Brunton is "nicer" in many ways, but the Direction of Travel Arrow on the Brunton makes it confusing for me. The Suunto has the DOT arrow oriented the way I "expect" it to be. This compass is intuitive and does the job well. I used it to survey the property boundaries of my newly acquired woodland property. Worked great.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2022 by ThrowMjolnir
Color: White
This compass was quite a disappointment. I returned it to get a whole different style of compass. The most glaring problem is that the capsule and bezel part is both difficult to turn and sloppy in its fit into the base plate. The large, circular hole in the base plate is too large, so the whole capsule and bezel assembly can be shifted left, right, up, and down and all around. This introduces error because it tends to be misaligned with respect to the marks on the base plate that are used to read the bearing. In order to keep it centered with respect to the forward and back-bearing reading marks, I found that you have to pull it hard toward the lanyard so that the gap is largest toward the mirror and fairly equal to the sides. Picture one circle inside another, close to the same size, but with a gap between, such that the smaller circle can move around some inside the larger one. Despite the sloppy fit in that respect, and partially because of it, the bezel ring is surprisingly hard to turn, and requires getting hold of it on two opposite sides. However the assembly is mounted to the base plate, it seems to pinch it too hard. You can't rotate it with a single thumb or finger. For one thing, even if you could, you'd throw the whole assembly off center. The tightness of the bezel ring in this respect does have the advantage that it stays where you set it while you are hiking, working with it on the map, and so on. I was hopeful, based on pictures, that the edge of the lid would be nearly exactly line up with the edge of the base plate when fully open such that you can draw a longer line on the map. No such luck. It seems that all the manufacturers of these mirror compasses fail to recognize the advantages of doing this. The short length of the base plate alone just isn't enough with many maps in my experience, requiring supplementation with a ruler or requiring you to extend the line multiple times with the edge of the base plate, introducing more error. The snap point on the sighting alignment thing near the lanyard attachment where the lid snaps when shut had excessive and rather thick flashing remaining from the molding process which completely prevented the lid from being closed completely and snapped down. I had to trim this flashing off carefully. After having done this, it snaps shut as it should. The little gun sight thing near the lanyard would be more useful, in my opinion, if it were taller, tall enough to reach slightly above the capsule, such that you could visually align it with the mark at the bottom of the hole in the mirror. As it is, to avoid yaw error when sighting, you need to visually put the line that goes up the center of the mirror exactly in line with the needle pivot. The mirror is rather too short. When oriented such that you are holding the base plate level, parallel with your line of sight with the mirror at such an angle that it is as if you are looking straight down on the needle, which is necessary to eliminate parallax error, nearly half of the capsule isn't visible in the mirror. There is certainly room to increase the length of the mirror some even without lengthening the base plate, though if it were up to me, the base plate would be longer still. The little plastic thing that attaches the lanyard to the base plate doesn't make much sense to me. I think you'd risk losing the compass in the field if you were to use it. I recommend just tying the lanyard to the base plate directly. The other big plastic thing is just ridiculous. Who designed that anyway? Get rid of it! Just tie a simple, secure knot at the ends of the lanyard, maybe a double fisherman's, which makes the length adjustable. The lanyard itself is rather like a saw on the back of your neck. I wish they'd use a softer, smoother cord. I did some testing of the compass in the field, taking a bunch of bearings as carefully as possible, with several independent readings for each, from a precisely known location on a number of precisely know distant peaks. I did this at several locations. I used the best current information about magnetic declination from the NOAA website. I made sure I was in locations far from any power lines, buried cables, cars, or any other potential sources of error. I was far from any town. The spots I stood one were chosen by features that would make them clearly visible in satellite or aerial imagery and would allow precise determination of the exact spot. Once home, I used Google Earth Pro to very precisely drawn lines from those peaks along those bearings to see how close they were to intersecting at the points where I had been standing. The error was quite significant. Based on my tests, I don't think that the example of this compass that I was using could be relied upon to give bearings with a repeatable accuracy better than plus or minus 3 degrees, even with fairly good technique. This is due to a number of sources of error that can add up in practice. The sloppy capsule/bezel fit is the worst offender. The lack of good gun-sights is another. Parallax error from mirror not necessarily being at the perfect angle is another. The short mirror also makes it impossible to see both ends of the needle, which would help to avoid parallax error. If the compass is tilted off-level, this also causes the needle position to change, and there is no bubble level or anything that would help you verify that everything is perfectly level. In the mountains, with non-flat horizons and distant objects not at eye-level, getting it level visually isn't as easy as it would seem. And in practice, it is hard to hold perfectly steady while simultaneously making sure that the compass is level, that the distant landmark is perfectly in line with the sights, that the line up the center of the mirror is going right through the needle pivot, that the mirror is at the right angle to avoid parallax, that "fred" is in the "shed", that the whole capsule/bezel assembly is centered with respect to the alignment marks on the base plate, and so on. It is too, too much to verify at once. Get one thing in line and you lose another. After my experience trying out this compass and the Brunton TruArc 15, I decided to go with a different style, one that is dead simple and more accurate and precise, the Suunto KB-20. I figured that for map work, I'd just use a nautical grid protractor instead of the base plate. I now have the KB-20, and while I am not terribly impressed with its build quality for the price and question its calibration since I usually measure a 1.5-2 degree difference between the NOAA magnetic declination prediction and the bearings I take, I am much happier with this compass. Since it has a whole card/dial that rotates in the fluid rather than a needle, it is considerably slower to find north and settle down, but this takes far less time than all the fiddly stuff with a mirror compass like getting the mirror at the right angle, sighting the landmark, putting Fred in the shed, taking down the compass and reading the bearing, and so on. And being far simpler, you are far less prone to error with it. Before buying this compass and the KB-20, I had the impression that the Suunto brand made well-designed, high-quality stuff. And they seem to be one of the few companies who still makes stuff somewhere outside of the Far East. I found the design and quality to be far from impressive, which is inexcusable at this price for a simple assembly of cheap plastic. Based on all the reviews I have read and the compasses I have looked at and used, I doubt that any company out there actually makes a really good compass for less than a hundred dollars these days. They are all rather disappointing, especially since some of the companies have moved their manufacturing to China. But Brunton especially disappoints me. Their stuff is still made in the USA and is still quite junky and cheapy seeming. You can buy a fully-fledged tablet computer these days with a camera, lots of flash memory, fast processor, hi-res LCD, GPS, magnetic compass, many orientation and motion sensors, and so on, with more materials and far more precise manufacturing, with complicated software to boot, for a similar price. Why can't they produce a good, precise, well-made compass for under a hundred? Is it that in these days of fancy GPS units dangerously over-relied-upon, nobody is buying compasses, so the market is small? Or do they just not care? Or both?
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Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2016 by Jeanne
Color: White
I teach day/night land navigation as a hobby. I use and recommend this feature rich compass to my students. The scales match USGS topo maps widely used in the U.S. If you are outside of this area, use a Suunto designed for maps in your area/hemisphere. There are many different Suunto MCs, so do your homework before you buy. Some reviews mentioned that the compass needle is not accurate. I am retired US Army Special Forces. I have used the Global version of this compass in many regions of the world with no major issues. One of the first statements I make to a class of students is “Land Navigation is not surveying”. Your compass should be accurate enough to orient your map to the world around you, then orient to local terrain features to find your general location on the map. It should assist you in keeping a general bearing as you move across terrain, day and night, in all weather. This compass will easily do all of those things. Land navigation accuracy is determined using other techniques such as using backstops, waypoints, hand railing and identifying terrain features. Prior route planning using the appropriate map is essential. If you don’t know understand these techniques, get some professional training. Regarding the included lanyard and declination adjustment tool. I do not hang any corded device around my neck that will not break if it could become entangled. This includes a compass. Loop the lanyard through a buttonhole on your shirt or coat. I replace the supplied lanyard with a much longer section of para cord and then loop it through a buttonhole on a shirt breast pocket. The compass comes out to take a bearing or orient a map, then goes back into the pocket. Anything attached to my person won’t be lost. My backup compass is the same. You do carry a backup, correct? The declination tool is taped to the cover. The knife point of a pocket knife will work if the tool is lost. Declination should be set during route planning and before one goes into the field anyway. By the way, the built-in magnifying glass is meant to read small objects on a topo map. Don’t rely on it for fire starting. It’s too weak to bet your life on. Other tools and techniques are appropriate for fire starting.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 9, 2022 by Gary V.
Color: White
Not just a compass - has a grid reader, zoom lens (for small map features or set a fire with sunlight), ruler, tick marks that can be seen in the dark, emergency flash mirror. The compass is very sensitive - getting within a few feet of any iron is noticeable. That is perhaps annoying but it speaks to its accuracy. If I must ding on something; the adjuster ring could be a little easier, it is very tight and cannot be adjusted with one or two figurers.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2022 by jooster