[CQ-Contest] Keeping beverage antennas straight

[Jim Rhodes]

The GPS should work most anywhere outside. Cell service not required.

Jim K0XU Sent from my Xoom tablet
On Jun 15, 2011 9:27 PM, <vk4ti at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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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