Hider: Bob WB6JPI
Twas a nice day. Early Saturday morning I went to Paris, er, I mean Perris
and wandered into Steele Valley, just NW of Steele Peak. This is about 4 miles
west of Paris on the Seine with a beautiful view of fishermen and pretty
ladies...no I am wandering again...4 miles west of Perris and well inbounds.
This spot was great as you had to go on Maywood Club Rd., marked Christmas Tree
lane with local signs and on to a paved one lane road going on to a very large
nursery and then to a collection of 40 ft microwave dishes belonging to Vxyx and
mostly pointed at China whereupon it lost it's pavement and after another mile
you wound up in back of the nursery. My thought was to point the big beam at Big
Bear but I couldn't see it from there due to the local hills. Phooey. This is
where T5 was located, a talking squawkbox hanging from a Yucca.
I then wandered back onto pavement and back on Maywood Club toward Santa
Rose Mine Rd and just befor I got there I swing west on mean little dirt road
and it climbed around a hill for a half mile or so had a nice view of Big Bear
so I set up the 13 element horizontal 30 watt T7 there. (This is the same
transmitter/antenna that in the past caused many to sniff 50 miles away). Love
it. You could hear T5 just fine there.
To plot the two locations:
T7 (main t) N33 46.843 W117 19.149
T5 N33 46.079 W117 19.096
Three teams started. Only N6AIN/WA6PYE gave up without finding me parked at
T7 (I got into the IARU contest with 9 zones, five countries..this is a great
20M spot with the noise level well below S1)