[TowerTalk] Direction Finding

[Pete Smith]

At 12:58 PM 3/12/00 -0700, Stu Greene wrote:
>
>This subject comes up time and time again.  We're going to get bombed with 
>shadow theories, but what's wrong with using the North Star (Polaris) as a 
>northern reference?  It doesn't move more than a degree off true north and 
>is visible in most of the Northern Hemisphere.

Sure, but it's equally true (and somewhat easier) to calculate the time
that is exactly halfway between local sunrise and local sunset (from the
newspaper), and look at the shadow of your tower -- it will point true
north at that time.  

Thanks to W3LPL for my first introduction to this one.

73, Pete Smith N4ZR
n4zr@contesting.com 

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