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[TowerTalk] True North and all that stuff

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Subject: [TowerTalk] True North and all that stuff
From: kn6di@groupone.net (Dan Arney)
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 16:33:17 -0800
Roy, You are dead on. That is correct and USGS is wrong.
Navigators/Astromoners and Satlitte installers use Declination.
Hank


Roy Maull wrote:
> 
>         Well, I haven't put anything on the reflector since the "bugs".  So, 
> here
> goes something.
> 
>         Declination is the angle of a heavenly body with the earths horizon
>         Variation is the offset of magnetic north to true north a some 
> location
>         Deviation is the amount of correction persuant to a particular 
> compass at
> different points around the compass dial, it is not necessarily the same
> all the way around.
> 
>         So there, I have stuck my neck out again.. HI...
>         Hurrah for recurring threads and all the various permutations there 
> of!!!!!
> 
>      73.. Roy  N8YYS
>   Keep West Virginia beautiful.. Grow ALUMINUM!!
> 
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