[FLWSS] Funny rover story

[Richard Cook]

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Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 19:56:32 -0700

From: "frank bechdoldt" <k3uhf at hotmail.com>

Subject: [VHFcontesting] THE MAN

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Well It seems the man was out in force this weekend.



I didn’t have the same problem as our friend Bruce but it could have gone 

that way.  He was ran off by the Forrest service .I took my dog and pony show up to Crater lake, CN82, for those of us who don’t talk in normal geography.  I did most of the rim loop and worked a lot form cloud cap and the intersection of SR209 and the rim drive. 7800'



Anyway on the way down the north face of the mountain, you cross into cn83 

and there is a nice clearing there at about 6500 ft elevation with a shot north and a pull out with some nice fruity national park plaque with mumbo jumbo about pumice, pumice deserts, lava flows, exploding mountains missing buffalo and Indian hunting grounds, total missing its opportunity to point out a great opportunity of making a far off contact on vhf or above.



At this pullout with the misprinted plaque I took the opportunity to 

reward my fellow contesters with contacts with the nether regions or black hole we refer to as CN83. After giving about 10 people opportunity to work, a park ranger vehicle came up.  It was the Man. Except the man was a kid and he asked me what I was doing.  Well that’s normal and he is the law, so I told him in simple terms I was in a radio contest. He said oh, well do you have a permit to run that thing here in the national park. I told him I didn’t need a permit, I was licensed.  Then he asked if I was listening in on important national park frequencies. I told him that I neglected to download the

frequencies off the internet before I came in the park.  If this was 

the bad ranger, the other ranger with this guy was the good ranger. He asked questions on how to get licenses and what the beams did and how they worked. But he all ready knew the answers because the good ranger then said he thought I might be tracking animals with the radio collars.  Well I had to hold my tongue.  I wanted to tell him he caught me or at least he was close.  I was really all geared up to track the bear. You see, I wanted to know where he did his business in the woods and once I knew where I could then determine with further studies and multiple measurements the facts. That being if the bear does go in the woods and no one is around, does it make a sound. However I figured I somehow got my little sayings confused and let it go.



The rangers were kind enough to let me continue, but I then left to go

activate cn92 from the edge of the highway, that if of course the state

police thought it was ok.



In a more serious point, the Frenchmen hill we use near gorge WA is 

private property. The man showed up there too. This man was the head ranch hand.

Once he determined I wasn’t stealing copper, I had all my teeth and I 

couldn’t smoke crack through my antenna that I must be ok.  After a talk he said it was ok for us to keep using his portion of the DN06/07 line. But he asked that we not camp there and that we should look like hams with all sorts of freaky antennas, busses or what not so he could see us though his scope on his 50 caliber rifle and be sure we were hams and not be troubled to come pay a visit to what he sees us out there in the brush.



OH yeah I worked 15 grids 600 plus qsos and there were less people out 

there so it must of been an improvement. As far as I could tell I was the only rover thought there were portables who changed locals.



73s

Frank/ k3uhf
       
    

73's 
Richard Cook 
W2RAC
http://www.qsl.net/w2rac/
 
 







 		
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