185228	185532	Rich-KN6FW, Jeff-KD6TOJ, Kathleen-N6DOB and myself-KD6DX, at the "Round-Up" outdoor barbeque in Groveland, Friday night.
1st bearing	2nd bearing	Saturday morning, Sept.15,2001, 10:00 AM. Jeff-KD6TOJ and I started from a point just outside of Sonora. My 1st bearing, 2-degrees, was a little left of the actual direction. Follow the 'blue highlight', this was our actual track as recorded by the Garmin StreetPilot-III. Our 2nd bearing, 60-degrees, in Columbia, put us on the correct Forest Road. Credit goes to Jeff-KD6TOJ, for picking Italian Bar Rd. As we approached the Fox, we received a lot of reflections at a critical juncture. Having four or five Forest Roads to choose from, we drove up road '3N03'. Taking our 3rd and last bearing, 120-degrees, it was quite clear we needed to turn around and head east on Road '3N11'.
3rd bearing
Overall Map
111217	111727	The two pictures to the left depict our view on the way up the hill. The right picture shows an gold mining encampment.
120418	121335	Jeff-KD6TOJ was gracious and took the left photo of me driving up the trail to find a turn around point. The right photo shows the Fox transmitter setup by Rich-KN6FW. 50-watts into a 3-element quad. Effective radiated power, 500-watts.
121418	121504	Equipment. 1) AHHA Doppler, very important piece of equipment. Particularly the multi-path meter, which told us when we could take a reliable BEAM bearing. 2) Arrow Beam, another important piece of equipment. 3) Garmin StreetPilot-III, even more important than the beam. This GPS street level mapping device had all the fire, forest and trails mapped out for us to follow. 4) Icom IC-R3, U-R-Here radio even worked with Rich's 500-watt transmitter. Stepping through the four internal attenuators, I was able to determine we were within a mile of the Fox when the IC-R3, in att-4, sounded off as we approached the transmitter.
121621	121721
131145	135011	Henry-KF6PCE, Joan-KE6QGJ and Bill-KG6QGK were the second team to arrive at the Fox.
135024	135041
141338	141959	I wonder if the posted sign, "No Hunting", means no transmitter hunting?
142817	144328	We had a long wait for the rest of the hunters to show up, about four hours worth of waiting.
145659	145712
150535	161704	Rich-KN6FW turned down the transmitter to 27-watts, effective radiated power, 270-watts.
161834	161844	At 4:18 PM, there was a caravan of three hunters, driving up the trail towards us.
161914	161941	Ron-N7TVE
161949	162012	Tony-AB6BR with Ray-KF6OMC and Joe-K6NOA. Joe a local to Sonora and hunting this very difficult transmitter with a "Tape-Measure" beam. Very excellent Joe, good job.
162023	162811	Joe-K6NOA in his full-size van.
162957	163158
163217	163244
163309	173414
173439	173453	Our trip out of the forest, very dusty.
173524	175114	Back into Sonora and all the traffic. See you at the next "Challenge Hunt", Sept.29,2001. I was told this one will be a little north of this Sonora hunt and not so deep into the forest. Henry-KF6PCE will be the Fox. Jim-KD6DX