I slaved for two days to get my transmitters, signin sheets and little baggies ready for the FFA. Had breakfast at the resturant and left a few minutes early (9:45) to hide stuff. I went south down the 15 FWY and then east. All of my transmitters were hidden SE of Rainbow, and up to just east of the INS check point on the 15 FWY. I got them all stuck somewhere by about 11:15 and headed up north figuring I would hunt the north and end up in the south and pickup my Ts between 5 and 6.
ID T-Number Name Type LAT LONG Finders notes 0 Smoke Stack Piccon 0.1w 33 25.598 117 8.802 K6DYD 1 Bush microT Not Found.. Went back after dinner 2 post near smoke microT 33 25.673 117 8.711 KF6GQ 3 mailbox microT 33 24.637 117 8.859 W6QYY 4 water towers microT 33 27.063 117 7.822 W6QYY 5 talky T Squawk 33 24.482 117 8.336 K6DYD,W6QYY 6 Behind gate piccon 2W 33 27.131 117 7.755 K6DYD,W6QYY,KF6GQ 7 on fence piccon 30W 33 24.627 117 7.437 K6DYD 8 above green houses AF6O 3W 33 25.437 117 8.769 K6DYD 9 power pole AF6O 3W 33 25.782 117 8.520 K6DYD,W6QYY,KF6GQ 4WD
Notes:
T9, the power pole T, was on the top of a little hill with a dirt road going to it.
The road was gated and locked. There was another road that just went up the hill
without turns and got rather steep at the top. see Don's pictures of his 4WD with
wheels in the air. You could walk up, like the LOST team did, but it was much more
fun to drive up (with wheels in the air).
T0, smokestack T, was broken into and the radio, battery, PICCON all scattered about.
Nothing missing. I hooked it all back up and it started running again. It was high
enough over the 15 FWY that it could be heard there. While I was there making sure it
kept running Don, KF6GQ, and Steve showed up. They stood within 2 ft of the ammo can
and pointed across the FWY to a dirt road 1/2 mile away and took off while I was standing
there. They never did sign in on that T.
T1, Bush T, was hanging on a bush along side of the rainbow canyon road. When it came
time to pick it up, there was a stretch van parked there and a very large Mexican man kept
going from inside the van to off in the bushes and back talking on his cellphone. He made
the trip several times while I was taking bearings on the T and even went and searched the
bushes trying to find the T. As this location was on the only road the circumvents the INS
check station on the 15 FWY, I didn't know just how far I could be poking around with a couple
feet of his van. I decided to get the rest of the transmitters and come back after dinner. When
I returned I brought two of the San Diego teams (it was on their way home...sorta) but the van was gone.
Finds:
With some 40 transmitters blasting away, I used the old attenuator
trick of setting the attenuator to hear only 1 or 2 transmitters
and go find those. Continue doing this trying to keep one or two
new transmitters breaking the attenuator until you are hearing too
many and can't tell what is going on. Then you drive somewhere
else and start over.
I found:
XFC-T (noID)
AIN T2
RJN ?
VCR T3
RJN Talking
N6IDF T2
K6KPT T1
I have the Lat/Long of these if anyone needs them.
Bob WB6JPI