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Re: [TowerTalk] Calibrating antenna direction and using chokes with a be

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Calibrating antenna direction and using chokes with a beam
From: Jim Brown <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
Reply-to: jim@audiosystemsgroup.com
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 08:38:46 -0700
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On 10/26/2012 10:53 AM, K8RI wrote:
The shadow technique when combined with the boom of the antenna or used with a Theodolite or transit is the most precise method of finding true North available to a ham and is going to get you into seconds of arc precision and transferring that to the antenna/rotator can still be kept in the realm of arc seconds.

I found a government website that provided the time of noon for a lat/lon and date that you enter, and used the shadow of my towers to show me true north. If you can be around at noon on a sunny day, it works quite well.

73, Jim K9YC


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