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TRUE NORTH QUERY

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Subject: TRUE NORTH QUERY
From: tomwagner@mindspring.com (Tom Wagner)
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 06:10:11 -0500
Yes, Mick.  Just add/subtract the declination listed
on the topographical map for your area.  Any
rock-climbing or camping store should have
the maps. 

You need one of these maps anyway to do terrain
modeling for your antennas. (Download YT/YTAD
from ARRL).

Tom
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At 09:45 PM 1/6/97 -0500, you wrote:
>I hate to bring this up because last time someone asked this question on
>packet, the troops RAVED for weeks. Anyway here goes; anyone know a quick
>and dirty way of locating true North? Can it be as simple as adding an x
>number of degrees one way or the other to a compass north reading?
>What say you?
>Mick...W4YV
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