| It was raining lightly as I put the transmitters into place an hour
before the hunt. But by hunt time the rain had stopped, and it was a perfect
day for a transmitter hunt. Five transmitters were hidden in Cary vicinity.
Each one transmitted for one minute, sequentially, on 146.565 MHz. The
transmitters were located within a few steps of parking spaces.
The red circles on this map show
the positions of the transmitters. Transmitter #2 was located about 150
feet from the starting point, and was transmitting into a dummy load. Its
signal was weak at the starting point. Interestingly, no team found transmitter
#2. All the other transmitters were found by at least one team.
The hunt started from the west side of the Cary Towne Center parking
lot, near the BB&T bank branch. Teams were allowed to start any time
between 9:00 and 10:00 AM. The team finding the most transmitters by 12:30
PM was declared the winner. Any tie would be broken by the least mileage.
All the teams did very well. The results are presented below. |
