That's the thing...the discussions just went on and on and on and on
and on and on. You can look it up in the archives.
On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Zack Widup <w9sz.zack@gmail.com> wrote:
> Not to bring the debate here, but my question about "true north" is
> "How accurate do you need to be?" A 2 foot diameter dish at 10 GHz has
> a lot narrower beamwidth than anything on HF, and my trusty ol' US
> Army lensatic compass has been accurate enough for me for years on
> that band.
>
> 73, Zack W9SZ
>
> On 9/14/12, Guy Olinger K2AV <olinger@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>> This discussion has no end. It cannot possibly resolve. It will stop
>> when all are weary and tired of reading about it. One side of this
>> discussion always has to be held in tension with the other. Neither
>> should "win".
>>
>> HOWEVER...
>>
>> Even with the length of this thread, you are nowhere near to the
>> thread run-on and persistent recurrence record held by the TowerTalk
>> thread(s) about how to determine "true north".
>>
>> May you not persist to that point and suffer brain damage. At OF
>> status, one needs every bit of rational brain juice one can muster.
>> Wasting it on pointless threads at a younger age will come back to
>> haunt you.
>>
>> 73, Guy.
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