August 14th Pathfinder

CALL

TOTAL MILES

TIME IN

WB6ADC / N6UZS

40

9:20 Winner

WA6DLQ / WA6PYE

44.8

8:25

KD6SNE

46.3

8:35

N6AIN

46.6

8:30

KF6GQ

50.4

8:45

 

A week ago I was driving around Mission Viejo with my family and found the new connection road from Mission Viejo to Ortega Hwy. If you take the 5 Fwy South to Crown Valley and go East left on Margaret right on Antonio then right on OSO. OSO goes through to Ortega Hwy.

There were two T's. T 1 was running about 20 - 25 watts into the 15 element boomer and T 2 was a GQ mini T. I parked off the side of a road about 3/4 mile south from Antonio in the entrance of the future housing development. The beam was pointed at the start point but it was reported that their was only a Mt Baldy bounce. I was told by one team they did get a south bearing from the start point. T2 was designed for KD6SNE to find. There was a cliff about 50 to 100 feet right under the front of the beam so I tied T2 to a rope and buried the anchor point to a fence and lowered it to the bottom about 60'. The hunters were very discouraged when trying to find it. They did not want to walk down there. I gave them all a clue that Mike (SNE) could find it without getting out of his Wheelchair. The hunters looked for it for awhile then one by one found the rope and pulled it up and lowered it back down. Was very fun to watch.

T1 and T2 were found by all.

Thanks for coming out.

N6XFC