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Transmitter Hunting in the San Francisco Bay Area
Fremont, standard mobile hunt.
September 7, 2002

Thanks for visiting the San Francisco Bay Area T-Hunting WEB SITE.

Story by: Jim-KD6DX
Photographs by: Jim-KD6DX
Resized and edited with Thumbs-Plus 5.01 & Photo Shop 7.0
From 2560x1920 to 800x600 and highly compressed (50%).
Nikon CP5000

Last updated: Sunday, September 04, 2005

PARTICIPANTS in the Fremont mobile hunt.
FOX

Rich Harrington-KN6FW, Jeff-KD6TOJ

HUNTERS
Henry KF6PCE

Jim KD6DX


Gary-KD6UIR, Sherri-KE6BLX, Henry-KF6PCE, Joan-KF6QGJ
Pete-N6YIF, Linda, Chris-KF6VFU, Gary-WB6YRU, Aileen
Jim-KD6DX, Johnathan-AE6HO, Nicholas-KG6MYQ
James-N1DDK, Andy-WD6CJK, Larry-KD6FFN, Paul Shinn
Andy-N6AIM, Ron-N7TVE, Chantel
 

Participants in the Fremont mobile hunt

Fox: Rich Harrington KN6FW, Jeff-KD6TOJ
TEAMS (11)

Mileage

Place
Gary-KD6UIR and Sherri-KE6BLX 10.4 1st
Henry-KF6PCE and Joan-KF6QGJ 11.3 1st 10% Rule
Pete-N6YIF and Linda 12.6 2nd
Chris-KF6VFU 12.7 2nd 10% Rule
Gary-WB6YRU and Aileen 12.7 2nd 10% Rule
Jim-KD6DX, Johnathan-AE6HO & Nicholas-KG6MYQ 13.6 2nd 10% Rule
James-N1DDK and Andy-WD6CJK 14.9 3rd
Larry-KD6FFN 15.6 3rd 10% Rule
Paul Shinn 18.7 4th
Andy - N6AIM ?  
Ron-N7TVE and Chantel    

 

Eleven teams participated in this evenings Fremont mobile hunt.

Shooting a couple initial bearings to both Fox transmitters, I incorrectly read a bearing to the 1st Fox. I also incorrectly chose to drive north on the freeway, which added 3.2 miles to our total drive.

If you click on the two overall maps, you'll see we couldn't get a direct bearing anyway. In the future, I think taking Fremont Blvd. north until the Doppler points otherwise might be the wisest move.

Locating the 2nd Fox was not much of a problem, other than back-tracking a little after passing the only street into the area.
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 Equipment I used.

1) 4-element beam: To obtain my initial bearings.
2) AHHA MicroFinder Doppler. Guide me alone.
3) Garmin StreetPilot-III: Street level GPS mapping.
4) Laptop Computer: TOPO GPS mapping and draw bearings.
5) Icom IC-R3, U-R-Here radio. Full scale on attenuation-4 worked great when near the FOX.
6) Mobile radio, Standard C5900DA. Listen to the fox frequency and talk-in communications channel.

CONCLUSION:
Doppler, U-R-Here radio and Garmin StreetPilot-III working together is a killer combination. All I had to do was follow my Doppler on streets shown by the StreetPilot GPS and stop when my U-R-Here radio sounded off. Pretty easy.
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Andy-N6AIM
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 Andy-N6AIM new to the Fremont mobile hunt.
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Gary-KD6UIR
1st Place
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Sherri-KE6BLX
1st Place
 Gary-KD6UIR and Sherri-KE6BLX also new to the Fremont mobile hunt.
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 The 1st Fox transmitter. Just a standard handheld radio attached to a "No Stopping" sign.
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 The 2nd Fox transmitter was hidden behind some bushes at Jeff-KD6TOJ's house.

Jeff-KD6TOJ and Rich-KN6FW hosted a free barbeque dinner for all the hunters.
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Jeff-KD6TOJ
  
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Jeff-KD6TOJ's house
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Chris-KF6VFU
  
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Ron-N7TVE & Chantel
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Linda & Pete-N6YIF
   Don't forget to attend the Stockton Hunt this coming Saturday.

September 14, 2002 at 10:00 AM. Paul Shinn is the FOX. There will be a foot hunt in the park at the end and FREE food and drink in a park setting. If you don't want to do the multiple transmitter foot hunt, you don't have to.

This is the last hunt of the year (and maybe the last hunt for Stockton).

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