All Day Transmitter Hunt
Hiders: Don KF6GQ and Steve KD6LAJ
For some time I've been thinking of this special spot to hide in, but when the week started it became obvious that the spot wouldn't do for us at this time. So I informed Steve that I was going to look for an area not too far from where we live (San Gabriel mountains). Well I went to check it out on Friday, and it wasn't going to be available either! So I called Steve to let him know the latest in our plans. We decided to place several transmitters in canyons alone the front of the mountains. Steve was to do the area to the east and I would do the area to the west. Steve woke up Saturday morning feeling very sick, so he barley got one transmitter placed before he went back home. I placed my first transmitters about halfway down Big Dalton Canyon Rd., this is just off Glendora Mt. Road in the city of Glendora. This set of transmitters where two miliwatt (5 & 50), Snake and T12 in spread of 100 yards or so, accompanied by one transmitter hooked up as a repeater, T repeater, running 4-6 watts to a 4 element beam pointed northeast into the foothills. This was hopefully to bounce a signal off the hills away from the transmitter. This was placed on a timer to go off at 10:00 am. Then I went east to Webb Canyon road, and placed a 3 watt Baofeng T on the end of a trail leading up the side of the road. As I climbed up this trail, I thought that most of our hunters are aging a bit lately, so I placed another T, T13 at the base of the trail. This was done so both T's could be signed into at that location. This in the results is listed as T9. Now Steve's T, T2 was placed in the middle of a vacant wilderness area just east of Etiwanda & west of Wardman Bullock Rd. North of what some day will be the continuation of Wilson Ave. If you need to find a reference on your Google map, find the Etiwanda Falls Parking lot, and go south east about .75 miles. It's in the middle of nowhere and has very bad roads going to it. Only Deryl found this transmitter, and broke his antenna off the top of the mast because of the rocking back and forth of the car as it was being driven across the open area! Deryl was the only hunter that actually got a bearing on this transmitter from the start!
We want to thank all the hunters that committed to a day of hunting, KD6LAJ & KF6GQ.
Results:
Teams N6AIN KA6UDZ WA6RJN
W/Doppler WB6MGT
Hidden T#
T12 DNF 14:48 52.5m 16:02 73.0m
T Snake 1 DNF 15:05 52.5m 15:05 73.0m
T Repeater DNF 14:58 52.5m 15:23 73.0m
T9/T13 11:42 41.9m 13:58 40.1m 18:00 95.0m
T2 LAJ 14:02 83.1m DNF DNF
So it looks like KA6UDZ is the winner by both time and
mileage. congratulations, that must have been tough, using a Doppler
with horizontal signals.
