-=> On 06-22-08 11:04 ROY WITT wrote to TOM WALKER <=-
(from earlier post)
 RW>> I've lived here 3 years and knew where North was in a general way,
 RW>> but I'm planning on installing a HDTV antenna on a rotor and needed
 RW>> to know where the N-star was. I found the big dipper, but the little
 RW>> one is too faint to see around here. San Antonio and Austin light up
 RW>> the sky pretty good.

If you own the place where you live there, you should have received a
copy of a survey of the property at closing.  Going from memory, the one
I got in FL gave the bearings and lengths of lot lines which are
straight lines. (e.g. N 23deg 47sec E  165.48').  The survey I got here
in AL doesn't give bearings, but the surveyor put a good-sized "North
Arrow" on it. (probably showing magnetic north).   Info like that should
help to get you within a few degrees of where you want.

I forget where I found it, but I'm pretty sure I found on the web at one
time a place where you could plug in your street address and it would
give you the azimuths from your place to the various TV transmission
towers within your viewing area.

- - -  JimH.

... Jim, is it just me, or do buffalo wings taste like chicken?- - Bubba

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