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[TowerTalk] aiming a rotor: true vs. magnetic

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Subject: [TowerTalk] aiming a rotor: true vs. magnetic
From: w8ji.tom@MCIONE.com (w8ji.tom)
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 11:01:40 -0500
> Gene, You are correct a lot of people go thru life trying to get the fly
> S--- out of the black pepper. All you have to do is look at the plot of
> the beam ,even a long monobander to see how wide the pattern is out
> where you are trying to reach and it is say up to 30 degrees each side
> of your target. Now if you were trying to land in the guys backyard in
> Russia from Timbucktu you might need to have a ballistic computer.

Not only that, but the signal often skews from the great circle path
anyway!

While it is nice to know which way is sorta north, this stuff isn't like
working moonbounce.

73 Tom

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