No hi-tech required, during a sunny day when your tower's shadow is the
shortest it will be pointing North. If you want to get fancy just input your
Lat. Lon.
Into this program and you will have your local solar noon -- your tower's
shadow will be pointing North at that time.
http://www.srrb.noaa.gov/highlights/sunrise/sunrise.html
If you paint a stripe on your roof where the shadow points or add a rock in the
yard etc. you'll have a nice reminder which way north is -- Google earth works
just fine too --- tools/ruler/line!
Regards, John NA6L
-----Original Message-----
From: William Hein <bill.aa7xt@gmail.com>
To: towertalk <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Fri, Dec 30, 2011 10:43 am
Subject: [TowerTalk] How accurate are iPhone Compass apps?
I have the Commander Compass (paid version 3.3.6) app on my iPhone 4S. It's an
mpressive looking app - says its "Mil Spec" - however I am wonder how accurate
t is. The manual says "The precision of the readings of the built-‐in
ardware sensors affects all of the Spyglass features. Spyglass averages the
nput from the sensors over time and uses the basic motion dampening in order to
chieve a better precision." So I guess its down to the accuracy of the iPhone
S GPS.
Sitting on my kitchen table it indicates an elevation of between 6893 and 6909
eet. If I average elevation readings over time will I improve the accuracy? I
sed the app's Location feature - it overlays an arial photo with crosshairs of
he 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
he elevation measurement equally accurate.
I also wonder how good this would be for finding true north and aligning Yagi
ntennas and rotators. Again, looks pretty accurate and seems to take
eclination into account.
73
ill AA7XT
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 10:22:10 -0600
rom: Richard Thorne <rmthorne@att.net>
ubject: Re: [TowerTalk] FAA & Towers, continued
o: towertalk@contesting.com
essage-ID: <4EFDE532.70506@att.net>
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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
alue to me here.
I am filing out FAA form 7460-1 online right now. It asks for the exact
ltitude ASL of my tower(s). How do I find this out? I can extrapolate from
oogle Maps but that won't be accurate to a foot, neither will be my consumer
rade GPS.
73
Bill
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