[time-nuts] Crude Survey Technique

[Don Latham]

Lord no, John. No red wagon is needed. Use a pole and the equation of
time, and a good watch or clock. At local noon, a shadow will be a n-s
line. If you don't have a decent clock, like your cellphone, put in a
pole at one end of your line. Near local noon, which depends on where
you are in the timezone, start sticking pegs in the end of the shadow of
the pole; the shortest shadow will be the n-s line. Accuracy much better
than 2 deg. I'm sure other ways will come to you :-)
Don

johncroos at aol.com
>  I wish to establish a north south line on my property to an accuracy of
> +/- 2 degrees.
> Could this be done by loading a T-bolt, Antenna, Power source, and
> laptop into my
> little red wagon? The idea being to find two positions several hundred
> ft apart where either LH or T-bolt Mon report the same latitude? Will
> either of these programs report to sufficient accuracy? The base line
> would be 300 ft, though more is possible.I realizes that the T-bolt is
> not a survey device, but I can spend several hours fixing each position
> if required.
>
> All comments appreciated.?? -73 john k6iql
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