I think people are making this too complicated. Draw a
circle of 200 kilometers in _diameter_ (100 kilometers radius),
centered on your home QTH or somewhere else, and that's the
footprint inside of which you can make QSOs for a single VUCC
award.
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 04:15:29PM -0800, Eric Smith wrote:
> Actually, the "pie slice" shape would be more technically
> correct as Frank, K3UHF pointed out earlier. The Absolute
> Max. distance between home and QTH#1 is 200 Km, and the DX
> to QTH #2, three, etc. could be no more than 200Km away
> from home or QTH#1... just to be safe. To draw this on a
> map, dig out the divider and scale, place pivot of divider
> at home QTH. Spread divider to 200Km scale, pick a point
> to operate from. Swing an arc 100km either side of the
> point, (linear distance, but on the arc) draw lines from
> these points on the arc back to home. Everything inside
> this space could be considered "safe"
> for awards purposes, I think...
> Eric
> KB7DQH
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