Hider: Doug WA6RJN
Hunt Report
5/27/17
There were two events the same weekend, the hide and running
communications for a marathon. Both required leaving home at
about 5 AM. Angeles Forest and the Angeles Crest Hwy were
near by allowing me to hide the Ts and be ready for the
marathon the next day. After the marathon I would pick up
the Ts.
T1 was hid at the turn off to Mt Wilson where it would echo
off the mountains to the east, hopefully creating a signal
that would look like it was over the mountains to the north.
It was running 40W into a 45 degree 6 element beam.
T11 was to lead to where T3 could be heard. T3 was north up
Upper Big Tujunga Cyn running 4W into a whip.
From T3 I was hoping T5 (50 mW) could be heard as T3 was
down a canyon from T5. Later, when hiding T3 I found this
was not the case so I hid T7 near T5 using 3W and a beam to
be heard at T3. To get to T7 the path went by a dead deer so
this T became known as the “dead deer T”.
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I found out later this didn’t work either at T3. When
picking up Ts I found T2 could be heard at T11. Wish I knew
that before hiding T7.
T4 lead the hunters to the Newcomb’s Ranch eatery. I put T4
on the far end of the parking lot next to the Newcomb Ranch
sign to be away from the crowd. Apparently the sign is a
popular place for the bikers to get their pictures taken
with their girl friends and bikes.
The Bug T was just something to find on the way to T2.
T2 was on Angeles Crest Hwy where Hwy 39 once joined. It was
running a half watt into a 3 element beam pointed west. This
was to lead the hunters from T5. I was surprised how well
the signal propagated all the way to T11.
T11’s sign sheet seems to have gone missing.
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The marathon also went well. There were about 3000 runners.
Results:
N6MI T1 T3 T7 T5 T4 Bug T T2
TIME 1:25 PM 3:00 PM 4:04 PM 4:11 PM 4:25 PM 5:00 PM 5:23 PM
MILES 63 83 88 94 96 104 110
KF6GQ
KD6LAJ T1 T5 T7 T4 Bug T T2 T3
TIME 12:07 PM 1:20 PM 1:35 PM 1:55 pm 2:30 PM 2:59 PM 3:47 PM
MILES 57.8 69.8 70.1 72.2 80.3 83.4 111.6
N6EKS
N6AIN T1 T5 T7 Bug T T2 T3
TIME 1:02 PM 1:48 PM 2:OO PM 2:31 PM 2:58 PM 3:57 PM
MILES 60.4 72.2 72.5 81.9 87.3 113.1
Crenshaw factors were used and the team of Don KF6GQ and Steve KD6LAJ were declared the winners.
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