Story of the May 22nd 2004
Mini All Day Hunt
Great day for a hunt. Not too hot and not too cold, not too
dry and not too wet. Plenty of signals. In fact we had attenuators in
at the start on three of the transmitters. T1, t2 slow and T2 fast.
Bearings to T1 were 17 degrees, T2S, 22 degrees and T2F, 56 degrees. Go
for the bunch I left the start at 10:30 and headed up into the Angeles
Forest on Rte 2. We were promised food at the transmitters so I didn't
eat any thing before entering the NO FOOD ZONE. Ran into Scott and Tom
getting gas and we roared up to the Angeles Forest road turnoff
together. T1 seemed to just disappear and T2s became very loud. I went
on up to Red Box and up to Mt. Wilson. And all I could hear was T2s. It
was north and no road went from where I was to north so I went on up
Rte2 to the Upper Big Tijunga and took it over to the Angeles Forest
Hwy and up to Mill Creel Divide. I chose to go after T2s so went up to
the right toward Mt Pacifico rather than to the left toward Mt.
Gleason. Found T2s on Round Mt. And now heard T9. Found it a few miles
away on the other side of Pacifico. On the way up to Pacifico, I heard
Snake T but the bearing was pointing off into the wilderness. Now what
to do. No more Ts and no food.
At this point I am 7 miles of wiggly dirt from Rte2, 12 miles of more
wiggly dirt back the way I came and I could not hear any more Ts. I figured (as
did Deryl) that Snake was on the Gleason road, but that was a long way back.
I decided to drive on to Rte 2 and back to Upper Big Tijunga and back over
the same path I had done a few hours before to Mill creek divide and up
the other way. Found Snake, with no food. Then went on to find T1, now I am
near starving and still no food.
While at T1 I overheard Ray telling Deryl on 146.565 that their mileage
was 143. As they hadn't yet signed into T1 and I didn't know of anything
else that they hadn't signed into, this remains a mystery. I musta missed
a transmitter.
I went on west on 3N17 to Magic Mt. and on and on and on to Little
Tijunga and took it over to the 210 fwy and on east looking for the T2f. I
listened carefully at the ID when at the start and although it was 25 WPM I dug
out the LAJ T2 part of the ID. Great. In about Fontana on the 210 I picked
up the signal due east. Same fast ID same LAJ T2 part of the id. Going east,
in east Rialto on the old rte. 66, I picked up another signal to the
north iding T1. Listening carefully to the 20+id, I could make out -----J T1.
It was closer so I went north up Waterman, expecting to have to go into the
San Bernardino Forest, but it turned out to be west so I came back along
the mountains to UCSBo campus where I found the transmitter to really be part
of the inland empire's Thunt and was iding --6IJ T1. Most confusing. I tried
to find it but it was either on private property or in CalTrans property, so
I gave up and went on home. I could still hear KD6LAJ T2 from my house but
it was further east than I felt like going. Pictures will be posted.
Much fun and plenty of dirt for the old 4Runner. Thanks for the
close-in with the gas prices as they are. I have had a slow leak in one of the
tires and for months it has been a one-week leak. Well this week it became a
2 hour leak and during the hunt it became a ½ hour leak. It is time for a
new set of tires for the old girl. These will be the proper size and will require a now and more realistic Crenshaw factor.
