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This year's San Diego annual on-foot transmitter hunt and barbecue was held in the Mission Bay Area, adjacent to Vacation Village. It was attended by a total of 34 individuals with 29 of them attempting to locate the five hidden transmitters strategically located around the island. We had great weather and a very good turnout with eleven new faces, some hams and some not. We also had an interesting range of teams hunting with six single hunters, six 2-person teams, two 3-person teams and one 5-person team. We did not experience any equipment malfunctions and had enough sniffer antennas for those who just came out to see what really happens on an on-foot hunt.
The results:
Single teams
Bill Wright WB6CMD 5 Ts 0:35
Casey Latoski KN4QKF 5 Ts 1:55
Conrad Lara KG6JEI 5 Ts 2:08
Robert Hagler KJ6ZLZ 4 Ts 3:00
Robert Hernandez KM6LBU 3 Ts 1:26
Scott Braden KA6SCB 3 Ts 1:35
Two-person teams
Matt Tucker N6EAJ and Ed Hall ex-KI6JMK 5 Ts 1:20
Bill Hober KM6ORF and Pam Hober 5 Ts 1:29
Greg Spaulding W6BAF and Karen Spaulding KI6FON 5 Ts 1:35
Dhanyatha Vimalathithan KO6ASF and father, Vimal 4 Ts 2:05
Delbert Felton and Sarah Kemato 4 Ts 2:20
Michael McMahon KM6PCV and Ken Holcomb W6OLL 2 Ts 1:30
Three-person teams
Tim Marshall AJ6XP, Ian, Isaac 5 Ts 2:15
(3 generations)
Michael Wheeley K6MRW, Juntima, Anabaella 3 Ts 1:30
Five-person team
Bill Elkerkton W6ZM, Robin KM6OUL, Bryan, Nikki, Noah 5 Ts 1:27
(3 generations)
We want to thank two of our regular T-Hunters here in the San Diego area for assistance in putting on this hunt. Bill Hober KM6ORF assisted us in the morning by holding down our spot and guarding the doughnuts while we were placing the hidden T’s. Conrad Lara KG6JEI was also helpful by sticking around after everyone else left to help us pack everything up into the vehicles. It was a good day, we hope everyone had a good time.
Joe Corones N6SZO
Joe Loughlin KE6PHB
It would be hard to top the weather at Hillcrest Park for this year's Antennas In The Park. Sunburn and heat exhaustion weren't risks this time. As usual, Marvin Johnston KE6HTS arrived from Santa Barbara with a box full of antenna/attenuator kits, but most of the foxhunt participants had brought their own. The three talking two-meter practice transmitters, all on different frequencies, were a little farther away from the Izaak Walton cabin this year, but most of the intrepid hunters found them.
The advanced course featured five two-meter transmitters, intended to transmit on the same frequency for sixty seconds each in numbered sequence, then repeating, per international rules. They were placed near the trails in the far reaches of the park. Unfortunately transmitter #2 (MOI) didn't respond to the start command. Champion radio-orienteer Bill Wright WB6CMD, the first to start out, found the four operating foxes in under 31 minutes. Just as he finished, MOI came on continuously, interfering with the other transmitters. So Bill ran out to track it down and silence it, making him the only one to find that transmitter.
In the rush to help the beginners (and get a little lunch), I didn't get complete timing and foxes-found data for all of the other participants in the main foxhunt. They were:
The Lin family: Aaron KN6ZTV, Cynthia KO6AKO and Eleazar KO6AKP
Scot Barth KA6UDZ
Tom Smith KB6A
Formal ARDF competitions have events on 80 meters, so I also put out an 80-meter transmitter to find. WB6CMD bagged it in just over seven minutes.
Meanwhile, on the hilltop north of the cabin, Dick Palmer WB6JDH and Bill Phinizy K6IHP set up and operated a station for the HF bands with a big trap vertical antenna.
A lot of people pitched in to make this year's event a big success. Robert AD6XJ and Jenna WWØMAN Canillas helped beginners learn to take bearings and find foxes. Bob Houghton AD6QF supplied the food and Albert Solomon AG6OF cooked up a great lunch. April Moell WA6OPS brought the traditional Foxhunting Weekend cake. And last but far from least, Gene KB6CMO and Cheryl KE6TZU Thorpe arranged for access to the cabin for all to enjoy. Thanks to everyone who came out!
Joe Moell KØOV
SoCal 2023 -- Southern California practice/demonstration events of 2023, including Hillcrest Park and Balboa Park.
SoCal 2022 -- Southern California practice/demonstration events of 2022, including Hillcrest Park, Felicita Park and Yuma Hamfest.
SoCal 2021 -- Southern California practice/demonstration events of 2021, including Lake Los Carneros, Hillcrest Park and Bonelli Regional Park. (No events in 2020 due to COVID-19)
SoCal 2019 -- Southern California practice/demonstration events of 2019, including Bonelli Regional Park, Mt. Pinos, Guajome Regional Park, Hillcrest Park, Mission Viejo Community Park, Yuma Hamfest and Lake Los Carneros.
SoCal 2018 -- Southern California practice/demonstration events of 2018, including Hillcrest Park, Lake Los Carneros (2), Mt. Pinos, Santa Fe Dam, Mission Bay Park and Bonelli Regional Park.
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