Amateur Radio Quiz: Getting One’s Bearings

By H. Ward Silver, N0AX
n0ax@arrl.net

Hams need to point their antennas accurately, but how can you do that if you don’t know the words used to describe direction? Ready, fire, aim!

1) For two different stations to have short-path bearings that are exactly reciprocal — that is, 180 degrees apart — which of the following conditions must be true?
a. Both must be at the same latitude.
b. Both must be…

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