[NLRS] Contest map

[vhf]

Greetings from the wet country (Seattle).  My latest project has been to
create a map in TopoUSA showing fixed locations, portable locations and
commonly used rover sites in the Pacific Northwest for the June contest. It
is posted at:

 http://pw1.netcom.com/~n7cfo/vhfuhf.htm

 I printed off one of the compass roses that K7LOG created (available on my
website - see "Compass Roses for Download") and had Kinkos print it onto an
overhead transparency.  I taped it onto my map, centered on my portable
location.

At this point I really went nuts and cut some 1/8" plexiglass into a strip 2
inches wide by 20 inches long.  I marked a line down the center with a
sharpie pen and drilled a hole at one end on the line.  Using a ruler and
the map scale I marked of distances in 15 mile increments on the plexiglass.
A small bolt affixes the strip to the map at my portable location, so I can
now put the line on the plexiglass strip over another location and get a
bearing and approximate distance.  A photo is at:

 http://pw1.netcom.com/~n7cfo/temps/plot.jpg

If the writing looks a little strange on the strip it is because I wrote it
backwards so the ink markings are on the inside.

Lynn
N7CFO

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