July 26th 2003

All Day T-Hunt

Results

The Hider: Don KF6GQ

The plan had both KD6LAJ & KF6GQ doing the hide on hunt day, but Steve called me the week before, and told me that he wouldn't be able to hide any T's, because he was going to have to work all day. Oh boy! Did that put a kink in the plans.

Well I decided to place some T's up where MI tried to hide on the last all-day that he did. No one except lawyer Scott could get up to that area because of the fire closure. The plan was to have two T's in the San Gabriel Valley and the rest up in the Gorman area.  I had my wife  (KA6TAS) place a T (T2) in the flood control area of the San Gabriel River, north of the 210 freeway. This area is nice because it has lots of underbrush and running water (token water crossing). AIN said his feet got wet. Access was from the bike path parking area or from Fish Canyon road in Daurte. It was running about 2 watts to a J antenna, hidden in the brush. When she left the T she didn't put a sign in sheet with the T, so I'm not sure if anyone got to the T before 13:00 hrs. If so tell me the miles and describe the hiding location, I will modify the results.

The shortest route would have been to get T2 first, then go up the I-5 freeway to Templin Hwy exit. T8 was at a tunnel under the freeway, placed in such a way that the signal would only be heard after passing by the only exit for 7 miles. I think most got it coming back down the I-5.

The next T would be the one near the Smokey Bear exit. You had to determine which side of the canyon that splits the valley. I hid it on the west side about 3 miles from the main road. It was a Squawk Box IDing as "Come and get me T". I had it hooked up to a invisible 3 element beam, pointed at I-5. This T could easily be heard at the main T site.

Then the rest of the T's where up off of the old Ridge Route via 138. Note this road is going to be used for some kind of motorized event on August 16th, does TNJ & crew know what it's going to be? Up near Libre Mt. T7 (main T) and two other T's, Snake and T3 (Tree T). The Main T was running about 250mw into a 15 element boomer beam at 5768" elevation pointed at the start point.

Snake T was just off of a hiking trail that connects with the Pacific Crest Trail (Token PCT T). T3 was up in this most beautiful old oak tree (see pictures). A very nice place, except for all the bugs.

I hope that all who came out had a good time. I went up on Sunday and turned off all the T's, all where still running except T2 which I beleive went dead some time after 23:00 hrs. It went into an abnormal mode, >50% duty cycle, and ran the battery down. Steve's T was hearable until sometime after 16:00hrs. I think he moved it, because no one had checked into it.
Don KF6GQ

From Don: The Attack of The GIANT RED Ants

Call/s             Miles  time 
N6AIN                   744.1    14:00
K6SNE/N6IDF             371.1    15:50
WA6RJN/KG6KZF           903.0    16:20
N6ZHZ/KD6CYG&          1003.5    17:00
KB6NYW/N6MI             321.9    18:20
KC6TNJ/WA6TQQ           512.4    20:10
WB6JPI                  252.1    20:50


Snake T
N6AIN                   742.7    13:35
K6SNE/N6IDF             369.9    15:15
N6ZHZ/KD6CYG           1002.6    16:40
KB6NYW/N6MI             322.0    18:48
KC6TNJ/WA6TQQ           510.9    19:44
WB6JPI                  250.7    20:05
WA6RJN/KG6KZF           DNF


T3 TREE

N6AIN                   742.9    13:45
K6SNE/N6IDF             370.0    15:35
KC6TNJ/WA6TQQ           511.3    19:51
WB6JPI                  251.8    20:50
KB6NYW/N6MI             DNF
N6ZHZ/KD6CYG            DNF
WA6RJN/KG6KZF           DNF


Come and Find

K6SNE/N6IDF             346.0    13:30
N6ZHZ/KD6CYG            971.6    14:55
N6AIN                   769.7    15:19
WB6JPI                  208.2    17:04
KC6TNJ/WA6TQQ           487.2    18:07
WA6RJN/KG6KZF           954.0    20:20
KB6NYW/N6MI             DNF


T8

KC6TNJ/WA6TQQ           444.3    15:25
N6AIN                   784.2    15:42
K6SNE/N6IDF             404.5    18:10
N6ZHZ/KD6CYG           1042.8    20.15
KB6NYW/N6MI             354.9    22.05
WA6RJN/KG6KZF           DNF
WB6JPI                  DNF


T2

N6AIN                   865.6    19:00
K6SNE/N6IDF             464.8    21:00
N6ZHZ/KD6CYG           1103.8    21:40
KC6TNJ/WA6TQQ           DNF
KB6NYW/N6MI             DNF
WA6RJN/KG6KZF           DNF
WB6JPI                  DNF


KD6LAJ T

N6AIN                   DNF
K6SNE/N6IDF             DNF
N6ZHZ/KD6CYG            DNF
KC6TNJ/WA6TQQ           DNF
KB6NYW/N6MI             DNF
WA6RJN/KG6KZF           DNF
WB6JPI                  DNF


Final mileage


CALL/S     Ts FOUND  MILES
K6SNE/N6IDF      6        196.8  Winner
N6AIN            6        211.7
KC6TNJ/WA6TQQ    5        159.8
N6ZHZ/KD6CYG     5        229.8
WB6JPI           4        252.1
KB6NYW/N6MI      3        143.4
WA6RJN/KG6KZF    2        155.0