Don KF6GQ and Steve KD6LAJ
Story

We started the hunt with my new Jeep Liberty Renegade, and also finished the hunt with it. At the start we got much higher bearings than most of the other hunters, 25 degrees +/- 10. So we left the hill going to Hwy 2 to Angeles Forest Hwy. There we came across N6AIN who was in front of us. At the start, I told everybody that the signal was coming from Mt. Pacifico, so we latched onto that info. At the turn off to Mt. Pacifico & Mt. Gleason, we turned left towards M. Gleason, to go up to where we could get a good signal that wasn’t being bent, reflected, attenuated, and screwed around with. We went about 1 mile up, Deryl went about .75 miles up. From Deryl’s spot the bearing was about 5 degrees, but at the next turnout, it had changed to 15 degrees, which actually passed quite close to the T. As we went north on the 14 Fwy, the signal was getting weird, it got weak and the signal bounce off of the San Gabriel’s was sometimes much stronger than the true signal. We decided to turn right on Hwy 58 because we felt we could cross the desert up to Randsberg and save miles. We went as far as North Edwards and took Av 140 north, the signal being very strong and right in front of us. We took this almost all the way to the T, but as we got closer, the signal started to turn to the right, so we took a diagonal to Av. 145 and continued north. Had to do a bit of cross country to actually get to the T, to prevent back tracking. All in all, the Jeep did a good job on those dirt roads, but I really need to get some better tires. ¾ of a tank of gas by the time we got home, so the hunt fell within my gas usage requirements. Our hunt was somewhat uneventful, but I bet Jippy or MI, or TNJ have some good stories, especially how one could get up to 360 miles on the hunt.

  Don KF6GQ