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[TowerTalk] Re: Variation and Declination

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Subject: [TowerTalk] Re: Variation and Declination
From: jreisert@jlc.net (Joe Reisert)
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 1999 09:01:29 -0400
Joe,

>From what I remember of astronomy, Polaris never varies more than +/-1
degree from true North. That is certainly good enough for all work except
10 GHz EME!

73,

Joe, W1JR


At 10:22 PM 10/4/99 -0400, Joe L Blackwell wrote:
>
>Variations up to 20 degrees is certainly a concern for determining
>how best to set antenna directivity.  Just wondering, how wrong could
>a person be it the boom of an antenna was pointing right at the
>North Star (Polaris), regardless of QTH in Maine or Pacific NW?
>de Joe, AA4NN


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