Nobody's mentioned this one yet... Take any GPS receiver, put it at the base of your antenna structure, and note the co-ordinates. Then walk away from the first spot and, use the display, find another spot nearby like a wall, or just the ground that is exactly north of where you started. Place a marker on that spot like a stake, or target icon, and maybe paint a line connecting the two points on your ground. DONE!
'73 Auke
On Dec 26, 2007, at 11:08 PM, Chiu-Teng Tsai wrote:
Dear all,
I am Chiu-Teng Tsai (BM6ERA) from Taiwan. Now we are building a mobile ground station. One of our problem is how to calibrate the azimuth angle. Use compass only, or any better solution? Thanks for your help!
Best regards,
Chiu-Teng Tsai
"On this one we'd like to think of ourselves collectively as 'da men', sir." -- Toby Ziegler
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