[TowerTalk] Using an iPhone App to line up your antenna

[Bob K6UJ]

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Bob
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On Jan 4, 2012, at 11:57 AM, Gary Schafer wrote:

> That sounds like an invitation for an owl to come and crap on the iphone. 
> 
> 73
> Gary  K4FMX
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: towertalk-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:towertalk-
>> bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Tim Duffy K3LR
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2012 2:34 PM
>> To: towertalk at contesting.com
>> Subject: [TowerTalk] Using an iPhone App to line up your antenna
>> 
>> Sure would be handy if you could take your iPhone up the tower - place
>> the
>> phone in line with the antenna boom - just off the tower (maybe with a
>> nice
>> holder to keep it in place - bungee?).
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Then access a compass App that would tell you the true direction
>> (magnetic
>> auto corrected by location).
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Would have to insure the iPhone and App were not affected by being close
>> to
>> the aluminum boom or the tower.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Has anyone ever done this with the iPhone and a compass App -
>> accurately/
>> successfully?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 73,
>> 
>> Tim K3LR
>> 
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