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1. [TowerTalk] compass question (score: 1): Author: aa4lr@arrl.net (Bill Coleman); Date: Sat Mar 8 10:57:46 2003; Also keep in mind that the Earth's magnetic field is affected by the surface composition. On my Atlanta area Terminal Charts, there's a note around Stone Mountain which indicates that compass deviati; /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-03/msg00120.html (10,774 bytes)
2. [TowerTalk] compass question (score: 1): Author: ke3q@msn.com (RICHARD BOYD); Date: Mon Feb 10 19:00:17 2003; No, this is not the perennial finding true north question. In my area, Maryland, the "magnetic deviation" is about 10 degrees. I can never remember, though, if that means when I have my compass out I; /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-02/msg00230.html (7,786 bytes)
3. [TowerTalk] compass question (score: 1): Author: faunt@panix.com (Doug Faunt N6TQS +1-510-655-8604); Date: Mon Feb 10 19:37:49 2003; The easy way for me is to know that the magnetic north pole is in northern central Canada. That means that true north is 10 degrees to the right of magnetic north where you are. This might help: http; /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-02/msg00236.html (8,661 bytes)
4. [TowerTalk] compass question (score: 1): Author: jimlux@earthlink.net (Jim Lux); Date: Mon Feb 10 19:58:23 2003; To: <towertalk@contesting.com>; /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-02/msg00238.html (9,837 bytes)
5. [TowerTalk] compass question (score: 1): Author: ccc@space.mit.edu (Chuck Counselman); Date: Mon Feb 10 21:13:38 2003; In Maryland a magnetic compass needle points to the west of astronomical ("true") north. IIRC, when I was a Boy Scout in Baltimore, the deviation was more like 13 degrees than 10 degrees. Check it on; /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-02/msg00243.html (8,224 bytes)
6. [TowerTalk] compass question (score: 1): Author: rmoodyg@bellsouth.net (Richard M. Gillingham); Date: Mon Feb 10 22:36:56 2003; East is Least, and West is Best... Subtract East deviation, Add West deviation to get true.. Gil, W1RG; /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-02/msg00245.html (8,695 bytes)
7. [TowerTalk] compass question (score: 1): Author: bill@axelrods.org (Bill Axelrod); Date: Mon Feb 10 22:51:47 2003; We used to use "East is least, West is best" To: <towertalk@contesting.com> which bottom. Weather Stations", and lot's more. Call Toll Free, 1-800-333-9041 with any questions and ask for Sherman, W2F; /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-02/msg00246.html (10,987 bytes)
8. [TowerTalk] compass question (score: 1): Author: n4kg@juno.com (n4kg@juno.com); Date: Tue Feb 11 15:04:00 2003; Simple solution from ANY place in the world: Get a Globe. Mark the location of the Magnetic North Pole. OBSERVE the angle from your QTH to the rotational (True) North Pole and the Magnetic North Pole; /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-02/msg00264.html (9,094 bytes)
9. [TowerTalk] compass question (score: 1): Author: rmoodyg@bellsouth.net (Richard M. Gillingham); Date: Tue Feb 11 17:10:07 2003; Keeping in mind, of coarse, that the Magnetic North Pole moves. Ever so slowly, but it moves. When I first came to the Miami area, the Agonic line (line of zero magnetic deviation) passed a mile or s; /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-02/msg00271.html (10,527 bytes)
10. [TowerTalk] compass question (score: 1): Author: gdaught6@stanford.edu (gdaught6@stanford.edu); Date: Wed Feb 12 11:22:42 2003; Nobody has allowed for the fact that the compass itself isn't perfect! It has some "deviation" from the correct direction,and that usually depends on the indicated direction. Here's the full story...; /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-02/msg00284.html (8,701 bytes)
11. [TowerTalk] compass question (score: 1): Author: ve7hcb@rac.ca (Chris BONDE); Date: Wed Feb 12 20:17:21 2003; I appreciate your 'hook' for memory, I am not the only crazy person. I use the top of the letter B to indicate the moon is waxing (bigger) and the top of the letter S for wanning (smaller) The curves; /archives//html/Towertalk/2003-02/msg00305.html (8,176 bytes)

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