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Re: [TowerTalk] Using an iPhone App to line up your antenna

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Using an iPhone App to line up your antenna
From: "Gary Schafer" <garyschafer@comcast.net>
Reply-to: garyschafer@comcast.net
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 14:57:41 -0500
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That sounds like an invitation for an owl to come and crap on the iphone. 

73
Gary  K4FMX

> -----Original Message-----
> From: towertalk-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:towertalk-
> bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Tim Duffy K3LR
> Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2012 2:34 PM
> To: towertalk@contesting.com
> Subject: [TowerTalk] Using an iPhone App to line up your antenna
> 
> Sure would be handy if you could take your iPhone up the tower - place
> the
> phone in line with the antenna boom - just off the tower (maybe with a
> nice
> holder to keep it in place - bungee?).
> 
> 
> 
> Then access a compass App that would tell you the true direction
> (magnetic
> auto corrected by location).
> 
> 
> 
> Would have to insure the iPhone and App were not affected by being close
> to
> the aluminum boom or the tower.
> 
> 
> 
> Has anyone ever done this with the iPhone and a compass App -
> accurately/
> successfully?
> 
> 
> 
> 73,
> 
> Tim K3LR
> 
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