RoveSite Information Sheet

Genessee County Airport (GVQ)

Batavia, NY

FN03va

Site Description and Notes

Geographic Coordinates

	DD MM SS.S	DD MM.MMMMM	DD.DDDDD
Latitude	43° 1' 46.4" N	43° 1.774800'	43.02958°
Longitude	78° 10' 6.38" W	-78° 10.10640'	-78.16844°

Stats

Ground Elevation 906' ASL
Genesee County, NY
ARRL: WNY Section, Atlantic Division

Comments by Mark Herson, N2MH - September, 2003

You get a much clearer rf horizon on the same road if you go a half mile east of the airport.
Easy on/off the New York State Thruway.
N2MH/R visited this site for the September, 2003 contest.

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
FN34bi	232.704	374.501	65.18	248.13	Whiteface Mountain [NY]
FN13he	41.590	66.933	74.53	255.07	W2FU Contest Group [NY]
FN23xc	210.878	339.375	87.24	270.08	WA2UMX Beacon [NY]
FN21xh	244.341	393.229	117.62	300.42	Bear Mountain (summit) [NY]
FN21qi	214.122	344.596	121.10	303.47	I-84 Rest Stop [NY]
FN21qh	215.181	346.301	121.99	304.35	High Point [NJ]
FN21oe	216.150	347.860	124.89	307.17	Normanoch Fire Tower (N2NK contest group) [NJ]
FN12in	53.437	85.999	126.91	307.48	N2PA contest group [NY]
FN21hb	199.486	321.041	132.48	314.36	Camelback Mountain (W3CCX contest group) [PA]
FN21bf	170.734	274.770	135.68	317.22	Herb, WA2FGK [PA]
FN11rh	144.222	232.103	144.38	325.47	Red Rock Mountain (K3YTL Contest Group) [PA]
FM19hx	213.413	343.455	169.10	349.60	South Mountain (K3EAR contest group) [PA]
FM09uq	230.632	371.166	181.75	1.66	Sideling Hill [MD]
FN00sn	170.484	274.367	184.90	4.71	Wopsononock Mountain (W3SO contest group) [PA]
FN00rg	190.269	306.209	186.30	6.04	Blue Knob [PA]
FM09js	229.904	369.994	193.51	12.84	Mount Davis [PA]
FM09cq	244.567	393.592	200.34	19.29	Sand Spring Lookout Tower [WV]

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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