Site Description and Notes

Geographic Coordinates

Stats

• Ground Elevation 30' ASL
• Newport County, RI
• ARRL: RI Section, New England Division

Comments by George Vaccaro, W1JHR - September, 2006

• Plenty of parking and clear shots to most N-SW (NY & NNJ & SNJ and beyond) but I was unable to work Mt Washington I expect due to foilage in that direction. Good place to slip into some tropo in the late summer and early fall.
• For Microwave there is a good takeoff angle over the bay and the useful directions of southwest to almost north.
• The West Parking lot is better but the East is usable for a shot to Cape Cod or the North East.
• The park covers an area much larger than the lighthouse grounds with lots of parking. Since it is a state park it is available to the public.

Antenna Bearings and Distances

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.

Visible Landmarks

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