Site Description and Notes

Geographic Coordinates

Stats

• Ground Elevation 7570' ASL
• McKinley County, NM
• ARRL: NM Section, Rocky Mountain Division

Comments by James R. Duffey, KK6MC - December, 2008

This is a good site which is easily accessible from I-40 by car. From I-40 take the Prewitt exit 63, HIghway 412. Take 412 south towards Bluewater State Park. You will steadily climb until you reach the top of the ridge, about 3 to 4 miles. At the top of the ridge on the west side of the road is a cell tower. Across the highway to the east is a long wide pullout area which is fairly level. Operate from there. There is a fair amount of traffic on 412 going to and from Bluewater, but you can get far enough off the highway so it is not a problem. This has good site lines from the Southeast around to the West and from the Northwest around to the East. There isn't much topography higher to the east or west on the ridge, so propagation in those directions should be OK too. It is easy to work into Albuquerque and Los Alamos from here. Colorado should be possible. I have not operated from here when there was a lot of activity, but Stan, W5ZF has worked a lot of 6M sporadic-E from here to all over. There is not much VHF/UHF activity in DM55, so you will be in demand. I will update the activity report after I am here when it is more active. I have operated twice from this site.

Antenna Bearings and Distances

Map courtesy of AZ_PROJ by NA3T and NV3Z. (Each ring is 50 mi or 80 km apart.)

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Magnetic Declination (Variation)

Magnetic Declination, sometimes called Variation (especially in the aircraft world), is the difference between True North and Magnetic North. It is expressed in the number of degrees difference between the two directions and on which side of True North you will find Magnetic North.

(Declination was calculated on the NOAA National Geophysical Data Center web page at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/geomagmodels/Declination.jsp)

Distance and Bearings Table

Notes:

• All antenna bearings on this page are referenced to True North.
• (All bearings and distances were calculated using the formulas of BD.EXE, Version 2004 by W9IP and N1BWT and using the exact geographical coordinates for each location.)

The following table shows targets that are within 250 miles (400km) of this RoveSite.

Visible Landmarks

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