This month's Pathfinder was held in and around the Los Angeles Harbor
area. There were three transmitters for the hunters to find.
Transmitter 1 was a 20mw Racon tone box remotely controlled by the
hiders. This box was located on an small turnout/overpass near the
entrance of the Terminal Island container termnal, in the city San
Pedro. The tee was chained to a guardrail and hung over the side to hang
horizontally polarized about 30 feet above the road. The tone sequence
was occaisionally changed by the hiders as hunters closed in.
Transmitter 2, the HO HO HO tee was located at the end of pier F and
consisted of a 340mw MCW t-box set for 10 seconds on / 20 seconds off.
This was the "get you there" tee and was attached to a 4 element
horizontal yagi and directed at the start point. It was also pointed at
an occaisional passing ship.
Transmitter 3, the HE HE HE tee, was a 340mw MCW box with a verticle 1/4
wave spike. It was placed on the rocks at the end of pier G near the
coal and coking barns. This tee was only about 1/4 mile from T-2, but
took about 2.5 miles to get there by the shortest route, unless of
course you swam. Kraig and I thank all who came out this evening.
The Results:
TEAM TOTAL MILES CF RANKING
ME/LOR 43.2 4.72 1
PYE/DLQ 45.9 4.96 2
GQ/LAJ 49.9 5.40 3
AIN/EKS 56.90 6.32 4
XFC/MJN 58.9 6.84 5
73! de KD6FFF & KD6SNE