[aprssig] Shack backup power

[Robert Kirk]

Actually, it does rise North of East. I got that surprise when I was first 
in the Navy and put an alidade on the setting sun at sea - it was about 285 
degrees!
For proof, see:  http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/mrst.php
In Severna Park, Maryland the sun rose at 0540 EST on a bearing of 059.

Cheers, and remember, a sailboat CAN'T sail upwind, right?  :=)

Bob Kirk, N3OZB
S/V Isobar

At 11:00 AM 6/7/2011, you wrote:
> > From: "Bob Bruninga" <bruninga at ...>
> > in the summer when the sun rises in the NE and sets in the NW.
>
>I hope you mean SE and SW respectively. No one North of latitude
>23.5degreesN (Tropic of Cancer) will ever see a northerly component of
>the sun's azimuth. See HO-249, or the overhead figure-8 on most
>globes.
>
>73 es sail fast, dave KO4MI
>S/V Auspicious