[TowerTalk] Co-ordinates

[Dale Martin]

On Sunday, August 17, 1997 14:09 PM, Jan & Del Seay[SMTP:seay@Alaska.NET] wrote:
>Well - there is a way without help - but Decibel Products has a
>little calculator that reads it directly from Topo Maps. They 
>used to give them out to customers, but I bet they'll sell you
>one for a buck or so.
>
>The alternative is to break the degrees into 60 equal divisions for
>minutes, and then break the minute nearest your location into
>60 eaqual parts for seconds. Works, but a pain to do.  de KL7HF
>
>
>At 10:19 PM 8/17/97 -0400, you wrote:
>>Hi:
>>Does anyone have a good way to locate exact co-ordinates (deg,min,sec)
>>on a USGS topo map ?
>>
>>Bill W8CXO

Somewhere, I haven't found it yet, I had something that told me 
how many feet were in a second based on the degree of latitude
(I think that's right).  Anyway, if I find it, I will put it out on the 
reflector....it's good info for siting your tower to know exactly where
it is (just going out the back door and looking up is not sufficient
these days.). 

Also, somewhere on the WWW there's a place where you can
put a pin down on a map and it will tell you the exact coords....
You can get down to the street level, so I figure you could 
conceivably, in most instances, guesstimate closely on the 
location of your house. 

When I find the URL for that, I will put it out also. 

73,


Dale Martin, KG5U
kg5u@hal-pc.org
http://www.hal-pc.org/~kg5u


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