Joe N6SZO Greg KD6YQR
And Brian WB2JCG Story

Summary from our team.
Arriving late (thought we were meeting for breakfast at 10:00 AM) Joe-N6SZO, Greg-KD6YQR and Brian-WB2JCG decided to hide two transmitters out to the east just off Calle Contento. One T was identified as Tom's-VCR T2 and the other was N6SZO T1. We hid Tom's right next to the road so if someone was going to steal one that would be the one! This one was hidden about 1/4 mile south of Rancho California Road on the east side of Calle Contento. No one stole this one or even signed in for some reason. The N6SZO T was north of Rancho California Road on the west side of Calle Contento and up a fairly steep dirt road leading to the top of a hill. The T was hidden in a lumber pile at the top of the east side of the hill. This was found by only one team KF6GQ/LAJ at 1300 with a note that said "Hate U 4 Long Duty Cycles" must have covered up some other signals somewhere.

After hiding these two it was 11:00 AM and time to start. Signals everywhere.....tried to follow a few and then decided to concentrate on a strong one to the west. Spend some time going up the mountain but came back down to the Industrial Park and looked around there. Satisfied that there was nothing there we headed back up the mountain and managed to find 4 of ? transmitters before it was time to head back down. On the way down we decided to look north of the Industrial Park and picked up some stronger signals but could not get around to the location that we thought they were in before 5:00 PM so we headed back to pick up our T's. As we approached the area we could not hear either one. We thought maybe someone had picked them up for us? The one VCR had loaned us was not transmitting at the time we picked it up. When we opened the box it started transmitting again so we shut it off and went to retrieve the other T. When we arrived the battery was dead on the radio, guess using Low power instead of Economical low ran the battery down sometime between the time that it was found (1300) and the time we returned. Sorry about that. Anway as they say....A good time was had by all.
Joe, Greg and Brian