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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/WMD6VFLJ42HBO6SH7WJM2X6E2BFRMDGY/?format=api", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/?format=api", "message_id": "[email protected]", "message_id_hash": "WMD6VFLJ42HBO6SH7WJM2X6E2BFRMDGY", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/LAQR4AB5JB57XY7ICKICXZQF5YB2NALG/?format=api", "sender": { "address": "michael (a) n4dcw.com", "mailman_id": "26f08667e55a4e059d2f805b60bc6550", "emails": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/sender/26f08667e55a4e059d2f805b60bc6550/emails/?format=api" }, "sender_name": "Michael Whitman", "subject": "Re: [amsat-bb] Proximity to grid line boundary", "date": "2020-08-29T16:54:03Z", "parent": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/7OP4IA7V7AGTZHPLMBPZQJZZXVU4XFXA/?format=api", "children": [ "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/3IDDPDDKHAS2TQ46YIUXVDOIHAX2TJUE/?format=api" ], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "You should operate at the spot where your GPS receiver (using the settings/rules that Don highlighted) reads out *.000000 for a line or *.000000, *.000000 for a corner. \n\n73,\nMichael, N4DCW\n\n--\n\nMichael Whitman\[email protected]\nHome Grid: EM78\n\n> On Aug 29, 2020, at 12:46 PM, Don KB2YSI via AMSAT-BB <[email protected]> wrote:\n> \n> The VUCC rules (\n> http://www.arrl.org/files/file/Awards/VUCC%20Rules%20April%202020.pdf)\n> state:\n> \n> (F) Grid boundary lines and grid corners must be established using a GPS\n> receiver whose map datum is set to WGS84, the global default for curif nt\n> GPS receivers. The GPS receiver should be set to use WAAS (Wide Area\n> Augmentation System) if so equipped, since this improves the error figure\n> to as little as 5 feet. In no case may the GPS receiver show an error\n> figure in excess of 20 feet. Any modern GPS receiver equipped with WAAS\n> will easily meet this requirement, as will most older\n> units without WAAS.\n> \n> On Sat, Aug 29, 2020, 12:37 Tom Schuessler, N5HYP via AMSAT-BB <\n> [email protected]> wrote:\n> \n>> For my information, as I am not much of a rover, but as I may be doing a\n>> little local grid rove sometime next weekend by request, how far from a\n>> grid\n>> boundary can you be for it to count? I found a 4 corners grid boundary in\n>> my area, but it is way rural in a deep clump of vegetation with a dirt road\n>> a couple hundred feet away. What is the maximum deviation from an X\n>> .000000; Y.000000 location for it to be legal as a 4 grid location? I will\n>> probably do a much easier 2 grid line location, but just wondering.\n>> \n>> Thanks much.\n>> \n>> Tom Schuessler, N5HYP\n>> EM12ms\n>> \n>> \n>> \n>> _______________________________________________\n>> Sent via [email protected]. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available\n>> to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions\n>> expressed\n>> are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of\n>> AMSAT-NA.\n>> Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program!\n>> Subscription settings: https://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb\n>> \n> _______________________________________________\n> Sent via [email protected]. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available\n> to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed\n> are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA.\n> Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program!\n> Subscription settings: https://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb\n> \n\n", "attachments": [] }