Hiders: Dennis K6DJI, Steve
KD6LAJ, Don KF6GQ
1st. 2020 All Day Hunt
The hunt was held in the Victorville, Ca. area.
There where three teams that ventured forth. N6AIN Deryl,
WA6RJN Doug, and the team of N6MI and AF6O Scott & Jim.
I have a friend Dennis K6DJI who lives out in Victorville,
so I asked to set up the main T in his front yard. This T
was running 6 watts to a four element beam, pointed towards
Mt. Badly. The T was able to be copied (apparently not very
strong) at the Pathfinder start point.
N6AIN was the first to check into any T and it was T1 at
12:12pm. Deryl was able to check into 4 T's (there were 5
T's hidden), with a total of 104 miles. It's too bad Deryl
didn't go on to find the last T, because his mileage up to
that point was the best of all the hunters.
T1 --- 34.542, -117.324
T2 --- 34.560, -117.267
T7 --- 34.506, -117.282
T9 --- 34.566, -117.233
T12 --- 34.560, -117.348
N6AIN found T1 at 12:12 with 74.2 miles, T2(LAJ) at 13:30
with 88.4 miles, T9 at 14:35 with 91.8 miles, then T7 at
15:45 with 104.2 miles, if he drove directly to T12 he would
of added about 6 miles to a total of about 110 miles this
would of been about 20 miles less than either of the other
hunters.
N6MI and AF6O found T2(LAJ) at 12:35 with 70 miles, T7 at
15:12 with 111.0 miles, T9 at 16:00 with 122.0 miles, T12 at
17:00 with 133 miles, and lastly T1 at 17:30 with 147 miles.
WA6RJN found T1 at 13:17 with 83.3 miles, T7 at 14:39 with
95.8 miles ( he hiked about .6 miles across three railroad
right of ways, a sand wash, and up a steep hill to save
about 7 miles driving around the Mojave River narrows park),
T2(LAJ) at 15:15 with 104.1 miles, T12 at 16:30 with 109
miles, and then T9 at 17:41 with 133.2 miles.
Now as a side note, the N6MI team requested a rule change,
to give them a mileage reduction of exactly 13.9 miles,
because their team was the only one to recognize that T1 was
actually not a T, but a repeater. They placed a sign-in
sheet on the actual Voice T1 stating that this was a
"repeater T", because of this I had intended to offer them
the win, because only they had recognized the repeater
operation. However since they had actually placed the
Repeater sign on the actual T stating that it was in fact a
repeater, (I think any Extra Class ham really should know
the difference) I found that in all fairness to award the
hunt winner to be WA6RJN with a total mileage of 133.2!
Another side note: How come no remarks of the signs near T12
warning of unexploded devices in the ground in the area! As
a note I drove my own car over several of the trails close
by to check on the accuracy of the signs, and I had not one
device explode under my vehicle! So I deemed the area to be
safe.
Thanks for coming out, all the hiders appreciate the effort.
K6DJI, KD6LAJ, and KF6GQ
Scott's Pictures
