Here's the story. Six Teams, N6AIN, N6MI, N6YKE,WB6JPI,KC6TNJ,and KE6VCR. KE6VCR and his companions, came all the way up from San Diego (thanks a lot for the support). At the start, apparently nobody could hear the T. I was frantically trying to call anybody up at the start, but all the cell phone would do is give me their mail box, what fun! So we assumed that since nobody was calling us, the signal must be okay so went back to camp (10 minutes. from T). I get a call from WA6FAT, who tells me that nobody is getting a signal at the start. So we rushed back to T and turned the beam closer to south from 110 degrees (we were already running max power, 80 watts). Then I got somebody that said some of the hunters were going to the Big Bear area, which is where we wanted the bounce to come from, so I announced that a good place for those that couldn't get a bearing, was to go to Big Bear area. Okay, to make a long story short, up at Big Bear the signal was easily heard.

Bearings took it to the Lake Isabella area. Five teams made it into the area, but failed to find the T, only N6MI who stayed out into the morning hours, found the T. He did it by finding every place that the T wasn't, then went to the only place left. He got in at 11.00am Sunday morning with 500.2 miles. We were located at W.118 6.864 N.35 36.396. This is located in the Sequoia National Forest, south of rt. 178 and west of hwy 14. There is only one road up to the location from the east, and it isn't marked on any of the paper maps. We were running 80 watts into a 90' yagi pointed about 128 degrees, hoping to get a bounce off Big Bear. Thanks to those that made the attempt, and sorry about the bad signal at the start.

Don & Steve.