I haven't been following the "true north" threads that close so this may be
redundant.
When W3UUM was recently installing my 2 element quad. I told him to aim it
at my neighbors garage which was across the street. Don't remember if I
explained to him that directly above the garage hung Polaris. For a 2 el quad
and my previously
used TH-6, this seemed to match up with any bearings charts or great circle
maps
I was using.
NOW....someone once suggested to me that around the globe, radio waves
traveled
in curves following the global shape of the earth. Similar to airplane flight
paths from
point A to B. i.e. when point A is California and point B is Japan fly toward
Alaska.
I thought this was bunk but great circle maps seem to bear this out and so has
some of my beam positions after I moved it around to peak a particular signal.
Any comments?
Henry W5HNS
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