Don's Story of The

May 31st. FFA Hunt

It was troubling that we couldn't get any commitments on the hunt, but we went ahead with it anyway (what else are you going to do on an extra Saturday). So I picked up Steve (LAJ), at about 9:00am at his house in Fontana, and went on our way to see the hunters/hiders at the restaurant. At about 10:00am still far from the restaurant, we started to hear several T's, So instead of going to hide ours, we went off and located several of Jippy’s T's. While we where looking for his T's we also hid several of our T's not too far away from Jippy’s T's. At about 12:00pm, we couldn't identify any new T's that we hadn’t found. So we decided to hide one more T. One the way we came across Jippy and he was looking for KD6LAJ's T, which was quite strong at this location. We went on our way and hid a T at about 1:00pm This was T2 running 2 watts to a vertical. This T was at location H7 on page 686, up high overlooking the area of 215/60 freeway. This was our fourth and last T. The first T we put out was a LAJ T running about 1W to a 1/4 antenna. This was located between the 60/215 freeway and some railroad track, next to a cell site. To get there you had to find a dirt road, cross a river then go about 1/2 mile to the site. Two hunters found this T, Deryl and David. The next T we hid not too far from Jippy’s T that was near a power substation on Central Av. This T was found by only two hunters Deryl, and David. I think Jippy had too many T's out and couldn't hear any of our T's. The Third T was hidden west of Chicago Av. just south of Central. This T also had a river near by. It was found by AIN only.  At about 12:00pm, we couldn't identify any new T's that we hadn’t found. So we decided to hide one more T. On the way we came across Jippy and he was looking for KD6LAJ's T, which was quite strong at this location. We went on our way and hid a T at about 1:00pm This was T2 running 2 watts to a vertical. This T was at location H7 on page 686, up high overlooking the area of 215/60 freeway. This was our fourth and last T. All hunters found this T! We found 4 of Jippy’s, Two of David's and none of AIN's. We got home at 6:15pm, which left me with 3 hours in which to do nothing unit the rest of the family to come home. I had a lot of fun, because these are fun type hunts, and I got a chance to try out my new VK3YNG Sniffer & my new Doppler, which worked surprisingly well. So watch out for the team KF6GQ & KD6LAJ on the hunts coming up.
Don KF6GQ