Overall view of my GPS Track	Close-in view	Hunt date: Aug. 20, 2005 Starting: 1:00 PM from the Fremont start point. One (1) hidden transmitter on 146.415 MHz. 3 watts into a 19" whip, on the ground, using a trash dumpster as a reflector and facing So. San Francisco. Scoring method: Mileage. The hider was Don-KC6IPO. The winners were Ron-N7TVE and Jim-KD6DX. My initial bearing was 300* and the actual bearing was 313*. Once off the Start Point Hill, I did not hear the Fox, even as I passed by it on Hwy-880. With a "hint" from the Fox, "The Fox is South of Oakland, North of Fremont and in Alameda County", Ron-N7TVE and I met up in Oakland and were able to re-think a plan to find the Fox. We took Hwy-580 south because it was elevated and began hearing the Fox in the area of San Leandro / Castro Valley. We took another bearing from the Animal Shelter and acquired a direction over the San Leandro Marina. The signal from the transmitter was less than "1" S/Unit, at best, until we were within a mile of the Fox. Then the signal began to ramp up very rapidly. Jim Sakane (KD6DX)
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026 Fox, Reflected towards So.San Francisco	050820_152054-031.jpg	Equipment Used: 1) Arrow, 4-Element 2-Meter Yagi. 2) VK3YNG, VHF Sniffer MK4. 2-Meter Receiver and U-R-Here radio, with built-in 10-step attenuator. 3) Doppler Systems, Doppler, with an Icom R10 Receiver, modified for RSSI S-Meter Indication. 4) Garmin, 2610 GPS and Maps.
035 Fox, Don-KC6IPO	036 Ron-N7TVE	Bob-KF6VSE wrote: From the top of the hill (415ft) at Fremont I got very weak vertical and a much stronger but broader horz. signal from the San Burno Mt.  I concluded he must be blocking the vertical somehow and the horz. was being helped and spread across the bay by the flat salt water.  So the source had to be near the waters edge to aid the strong horz.  As I started north on the flat I heard nothing, as expected, so I headed to my secret high point (600ft).  From here I got enough vertical to turn on the first 15db att. and I got a correct bearing within 1 degree. I think I was in the lead at this point. Time for a big mistake. I decided to cross the bay to Candlestick or Hunters point. The traffic was bad so by the time I realized I was on the wrong side of the bay, and got back on the east side within a few block of the fox, it went off. Bob KF6VSE