USALS Coordinates

[ChuckBoozer]

Just a quick question for the group:

Which set of coordinates should be entered into USALS - the degrees/minutes or decimal format? Since the numbers are so close, does it make much of a difference?

Chuck

 

[Mr Tony]

I always do it as decimal

so I enter as an example 46.2N 94.4W

 

[ChuckBoozer]

Thanks for the reply, Ice.

I also use my decimal coordinates, rather than the degree/minutes. Works fine for me, but I was just wonderin...

 

[brentb636]

As an aside, but related topic, it's quite permissable to "fudge" those numbers a bit if you find it gives you a better quality signal. I'm in a high wind area, and those lake breezes have been subtly changing my azimuth adjustment. Oddly a few weeks later, it gets changed in the opposite direction. Fiddling with the longitude number can keep you from having to visit the dish quite so often.