I have the Commander Compass (paid version 3.3.6) app on my iPhone 4S. It's an
impressive looking app - says its "Mil Spec" - however I am wonder how accurate
it is. The manual says "The precision of the readings of the built-‐in
hardware sensors affects all of the Spyglass features. Spyglass averages the
input from the sensors over time and uses the basic motion dampening in order
to achieve a better precision." So I guess its down to the accuracy of the
iPhone 4S GPS.
Sitting on my kitchen table it indicates an elevation of between 6893 and 6909
feet. If I average elevation readings over time will I improve the accuracy?
I used the app's Location feature - it overlays an arial photo with crosshairs
of the devices position and it looks to be VERY accurate, I'd say within a few
feet (it has a cross hair over my kitchen an I'm sitting at the kitchen table).
Is the elevation measurement equally accurate.
I also wonder how good this would be for finding true north and aligning Yagi
antennas and rotators. Again, looks pretty accurate and seems to take
declination into account.
73
Bill AA7XT
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 10:22:10 -0600
From: Richard Thorne <rmthorne@att.net>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] FAA & Towers, continued
To: towertalk@contesting.com
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My new iPhone 4S has a compass application with GPS coordinates.
Rich - N5ZC
On 12/30/2011 8:51 AM, William Hein wrote:
> Thanks for all for the great advice and info! TowerTalk really proving its
> value to me here.
>
> I am filing out FAA form 7460-1 online right now. It asks for the exact
> altitude ASL of my tower(s). How do I find this out? I can extrapolate from
> Google Maps but that won't be accurate to a foot, neither will be my consumer
> grade GPS.
>
> 73
> Bill
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