[CQ-Contest] Keeping beverage antennas straight

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What a great idea Jose - Some of the Pacific islands have chronic over growth and this will be a boon to those ops - Next question would be does an iPhone work in those countries?

--- On Wed, 15/6/11, José Nunes CT1BOH <ct1boh at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: José Nunes CT1BOH <ct1boh at gmail.com>
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] Keeping beverage antennas straight
> To: cq-contest at contesting.com
> Received: Wednesday, 15 June, 2011, 9:31 PM
> Reading N2NL blog http://www.n2nl.net/?p=375 with a description of his
> work
> to set up beverages in Guam jungle, reminded me of the work
> I had to do to
> put beverages in PY0FF downhill jungle.
> 
> In Madeira CR3E the USA beverage also goes through lots of
> forestation and
> it is very easy to loose track of the correct direction.
> 
> Well not anymore.
> 
> With GPS Android phone free app
> https://market.android.com/details?id=com.google.android.maps.mytracks&feature=search_result
> it
> is very easy to keep a beverage wire fully aligned with the
> desired
> direction, in the middle of heavy forestation/jungle,
> thanks to GPS reading
>  73
> -- 
> -- 
> José Nunes
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