29May09

Kurt measured the booms with the data-scope today.

These are magnetic readings with deviation setup as ......

GM: added true-north angles using declination shown below and assuming data-scope was not correcting for declinaton.

Site

Ht

BoomAngle

BoomAngle(true)

Vazimuth (Boom-90)

Platteville

4m

88.9 (KK) 91.5 (Rudy)

90.2 + 9 = 99.2

9.2

Marshall

2m

16.4

16.4 + 9 = 25.4

295.4

 

4m

16.0

25

295

 

6m

15.7

24.7

294.7

 

8m

16.2

25.2

295.2

 

10m

18.0

27

297

According to http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/geomagmodels/struts/calcDeclination
the declination of Marshall (Lat: 39.948, Lon: 105.195) is 9 deg 17 min.

Platteville (Lat: 40.187, 104.72) is 9 deg 3 min.