Baldy + Repeater = Chaos

Submitted by k6vcr on Tue, 10/04/2022 - 12:10
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K6VCR
Hunt Story

SEPTEMBER 2022 ALL DAY HUNT -K6VCR

I had a plan. And then another and another. Finally decided to Keep It Simple Stupid. I had prepared and tested and programmed all of the equipment that would be used earlier in the week, loaded all of it up in the truck on Friday evening and went to bed. The alarm had been set for 3am but I must have slept through it. Out of bed at 3:45, on the road by 4:15. No traffic to speak of and I made good time to the repeater site arriving just before dawn. The repeater was a 1/2 watt with a hot rod vertical. Headed the 35 miles to T-3 site, placed the transmitter, a 1 watt Baofeng attached to a 4 element yagi thrown in a bush. The at the main road I turned right and placed the Froggs micro T a few hundred feet up the road, my feeble attempt to sucker someone up to Baldy. Then I was off to T-2 , about 10 miles away. T-2 was another 1 watt Baofeng this time with a  
6 Teams arrived at the start point and had plenty of signals. There were 6 transmitters on the hunt but with the repeater rebroadcasting T2, T3 and T4 it might sound like more. My guess was that all the teams would go for the 1/2 watt loud vertical signal of the repeater first as it was only 8.2 miles away (9.2 by car). Everyone but KI6RXX/KG6JEI did. The first 4 teams got there between 12 and 12:30, then WB6HPW/N6PL arrived at 1:40. Team RXX went for T-4 first and was actually the first team to find a transmitter, T-0000 at 11:39. I don't believe they found T-4 for quite a while.
Some of you need to be more careful recording your times and mileage on the sign in sheets.

3 Teams found 7 T's  The winner of the hunt was scored by the lowest mileage from the repeater to the next T.
Congratulations Bill, WB6MGT! You are the winner!    

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                       GPS Coordinates 
REPEATER   N33.9816   W117.9942   FRAME AVE  (9.2 ROAD MILES FROM START)
T-1   N34.23333   W117.79813   SHOEMAKER CANYON RD
T-2   N34.1471   W117.7763   SAN DIMAS CANYON RD
T-3   N34.16924   W117.67554   NORTH MOUNTAIN AVE
T-4   N34.2897   W117.8384   SAN GABRIEL CANYON RD
MICRO T-0000   N34.2154   W117.8608   SAN GABRIEL CANYON RD
MICRO FROGGS   N34.17748   W117.67725
 

1st Place
WB6MGT
2nd Place
WA6RJN
3rd Place
WB6HPW WITH N6PL
4th Place
N6MI WITH AF60
5th Place
KI6RXX WITH KG6JEI
6th Place
KF6GQ WITH KD6LAJ
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