RoveSite Information Sheet

West parking lot

Roan Mountain (west), NC

EM86wc

Site Description and Notes

Geographic Coordinates

	DD MM SS.S	DD MM.MMMMM	DD.DDDDD
Latitude	36° 6' 6.62" N	36° 6.110400'	36.10184°
Longitude	82° 8' 6.03" W	-82° 8.100599'	-82.13501°

Stats

Ground Elevation ' ASL
County, NC
ARRL: NC Section, Roanoke Division

Comments by Mark Herson, N2MH - November, 2003

Decent Rover site. Once, while operating in FN11, I heard N4OFA/R on 222 who was operating from this site.

Antenna Bearings and Distances

Map with range rings

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

Maps will take from 30 sec - 5 mins on an unloaded server, depending on the amount of information plotted. Microsoft IE may time out after 3 mins.

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.

Grid Locator	Distance (mi)	Distance (km)	Bearing To (deg)	Bearing From (deg)	Description
EM86wc	2.370	3.814	37.00	217.00	Roan Mountain [NC]
FM08fq	229.362	369.122	37.84	219.42	Spruce Knob (K8GP contest group) [WV]
EM96ep	47.201	75.962	38.40	218.71	White Top Mountain [VA]
FM08jm	232.348	373.928	43.51	225.29	Flagpole Knob (W4IY contest group) [VA]
FM08jl	227.819	366.640	43.55	225.30	Reddish Knob [VA]
EM96jk	57.536	92.596	67.18	247.74	Doughton Park [NC]
EM96df	26.914	43.314	72.85	253.12	AA4ZZ contest group [NC]
EM95tg	114.652	184.515	120.05	301.08	Dex, W4DEX [NC]
EM85us	24.352	39.191	197.49	17.42	Mount Mitchell [NC]
EM84cu	126.998	204.383	228.57	47.60	Brasstown Bald Mountain [GA]
EM85jm	71.463	115.008	235.83	55.21	Soco Bald (W4NH Contest Group) [NC]
EM79rb	243.954	392.606	328.04	146.58	Devou Park [KY]

Visible Landmarks

(Useful for calibrating your rotator.)

Landmark	Distance (mi)	Bearing (deg)

Photos

There are no photos available for this site.

Acknowledgements

Information on this page was obtained from N4OFA

Last Update

This Information Sheet was last updated on June 15, 2008 at 18:15:30 GMT

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