[SCCC] Old W6KP Location

[Paul Gordon]

Wow. I've not used Terraserver before. It's neat! It's sure not the
view we had driving in to the place.  :-)

The house is the dark spot in the very bottom left-hand corner of the
picture.

33.4879056   -116.67352

How's DX?
Paul

ps: apologies to everyone for all this arm-waving on the reflector.


Michael Tope wrote:
> 
> Attached is a terraserver image of the area in question with markers
> placed at the coordinates that Paul suggested:
> 
> 33d 29.5 N, 116d 40.24 W WGS84
> 
> and at the intersection of Bailey and Terwilliger.
> 
> Does that look like the right spot?
> 
> Mike, W4EF.............................
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Shell" <n6ws at charter.net>
> To: "'Paul Gordon'" <n6ll at arrl.net>; <sccc at contesting.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 6:59 AM
> Subject: RE: [SCCC] Old W6KP Location
> 
> > Hi Mike & Paul,
> >
> > I'm not sure, but I thought it was North of the location you noted.  I
> > thought it was nearer:
> > 33d 30m 08s N, 116d 40m 26s W
> >
> >
> http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?z=11&n=3707011&e=530299&s=50&size=l&u=6&datu
> > m=nad83&layer=DRG25
> >
> > I didn't take any readings either, but by just looking at the topo map, it
> > looks like where I remember it being.  Hi Hi
> >
> > 73, Bill
> > N6WS
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: sccc-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:sccc-bounces at contesting.com] On
> > Behalf Of Paul Gordon
> > Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 11:11 PM
> > To: sccc at contesting.com
> > Subject: Re: [SCCC] Old W6KP Location
> >
> > Hi Mike,
> >
> > I was there, but don't remember if I took a reading.
> > Looking at the topo, it's got to be very near 33d 29.5' N, 116d 40.19'
> > W, NAD27.
> >
> > I'm vicariously enjoying your search.
> >
> > 73,
> > Paul, N6LL
> >
> > Michael Tope wrote:
> > >
> > > Does anyone have exact GPS coordinates for Tom's former mountaintop
> > > QTH in Anza. From N6AA's directions to the summer meeting, I was able
> > > to track his location down to the intersection of Bailey Road and
> > > Terwilliger, but I am not sure how far the actual antenna farm was
> > > from that intersection (I wasn't able to make the meeting). I was
> > > going to run some terrain plots from that location using Radio Mobile
> > > and HFTA so I would have a good "super QTH" benchmark to compare
> > > against.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Mike, W4EF.....................................
> > >
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