RoveSite Information Sheet

AA4ZZ Mountain Top

Boone, NC

EM96df

Site Description and Notes

Geographic Coordinates

	DD MM SS.S	DD MM.MMMMM	DD.DDDDD
Latitude	36° 12' 58.1" N	36° 12.96840'	36.21614°
Longitude	81° 40' 28.4" W	-81° 40.47359'	-81.67456°

Stats

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

Comments by Mark Herson, N2MH - November, 2003

Operating site for the Carolina DX Association, AA4ZZ, contest group.
The coordinates listed are very approximate. They only give the location for the town of Boone, North Carolina. The contest group actually goes to the top of a 4000' mountain outside of Boone.

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
EM96ep	29.285	47.129	7.33	187.37	White Top Mountain [VA]
FM08fq	207.880	334.551	33.86	215.16	Spruce Knob (K8GP contest group) [WV]
FM08jl	204.762	329.533	40.13	221.61	Reddish Knob [VA]
FM08jm	209.293	336.825	40.17	221.68	Flagpole Knob (W4IY contest group) [VA]
EM96jk	30.858	49.661	62.51	242.80	Doughton Park [NC]
EM95tg	98.357	158.290	131.91	312.66	Dex, W4DEX [NC]
EM85us	45.440	73.129	226.94	46.60	Mount Mitchell [NC]
EM84cu	151.944	244.530	233.02	51.78	Brasstown Bald Mountain [GA]
EM85jm	97.524	156.950	240.73	59.85	Soco Bald (W4NH Contest Group) [NC]
EM86wc	26.740	43.034	253.42	73.15	Roan Mountain [NC]

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 N2MH

Last Update

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

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