NOW THE LONG STORY:

First off myself and Greg KF6DBJ would like to thank everyone who made the effort and came out to hunt us on the Sunday hunt. We knew it would be hot inland so we pulled an "MJN" and hid near the water in Long Beach where it was a nice and breezy 73 degrees. Our exact location was the southern dead end of Boathouse Lane where we parked next to the Cal State Long Beach boathouse used for canoeing contests there in the Marine Stadium. The view was nice too as many beautiful, athletic women were hanging out getting ready to race in their canoes.

Coords for you GPS types is 50 ft from 33 55.746 by 118 07.308 which is a historical marker that says the Marine Stadium was built in 1932 for the Tenth Olympiad.

We started the hunt with 30+ watts into a 4 element vertical yagi pointed at appropriately enough Signal Hill. Deryl later informed us that from PV Drive Norht and Western ave on Palos Verdes that he could see his bearing going right over the towers up there. That was perfect because this was a start of many misleading bearings for him and a couple others. Every 5 minutes we changed the direction of the yagi....aimed off at the Queen Mary, inland to OC, down the coast, even UP at the sky! Sorry Deryl but we said it would be challenging!

About 45 minutes into the hunt as I had roughly "predicted" to Greg there was Deryl driving aimlessly back and forth along Appian Way across the water from us. Just before that Greg got the Brilliant Idea of laying the beam down horizontal about 2 feet off the ground and supported by 2 orange cones. It was in a parking stall between Greg's large work truck and an old van providing a nice  waveguide for the RF. Antenna was aimed at a 3 story aparment building on the corner of Appian Way and Bayshore Ave. which caused it to ping-pong all over the place including fences, boats, the water, etc. We're sure the nearby water helped too. Signal was nulled towards the entrance to the street we were on.

Deryl disappeared for an hour and we didn't see him again til he found the tee in 2nd place at 1:50pm. We did see another hunter in his fire engine red Dakota and that was John Doughtery KF6VVP from Long Beach. He also drove back and forth endlessly in the "hot zone" the entire length of Appian Way from the 2nd Street bridge northward. He was equipped with an HT and no attenuator and was having such a hard time we decided to talk him in by cellphone which made him Unofficial.

From what we could tell XFC spent some time over on Appian Way as well before figuring out where we were. Not sure how SNE came in or what he experienced.

73,