[Antennas] Finding True North (simplest method)

[Don Havlicek]

You're correct, Chris.  I was in a hurry and didn't follow 'convention'.
[don't tell anyone that I taught math for over 35 years ! .. shhhhhhh]
Don
N8DE

Chris BONDE wrote:
> 
> I donot want to sound nitpicky, but may.  This is a prime example to me
> about punctuation etc.
> 
> When I first read the following I read 5 degrees.  My computer and I have
> trouble at times seeing the same thing.  I was always taught when taking
> math that a decimal number always must have a unit number therefore 0.5 is
> readily readable as half  as   .5 can be misread.
> 
> Just my humble opinion.
> 
> Chris opr VE7HCB
> 
> At 07:17 PM 2002-02-21 -0500, Don Havlicek wrote:
> >Mike,
> >Quite a novel approach, but not exact, as the precession of the earth
> >makes the times pre-meridian crossing and post-meridian crossing
> >unequal.
> >I'm sure it would work within 1 or 2 degrees, so go for it!
> >I'll stick with Polaris .. it's within .5 degree for all of North
> >America.
> >
> >Don
> >N8DE