Looks like great weather for our nest southern California on-foot radio direction finding session in the Travel Town section of Griffith Park on Saturday, February 13, 2016.
The emphasis in this session will be training to help you improve your bearing-taking, map-reading, navigating and course-planning skills. Experts will be on hand to help you. This is the second of three sessions for those preparing to compete in the 2016 USA ARDF Championships in Texas during April.
If you want to build a kit for measuring-tape yagi and/or offset attenuator, you need to reserve your kits from Marvin (marvin@west.net) tonight.
The building session will start at 9:30 AM. Please be prompt. Beginner transmitters will be on the air at that time. The main 5-fox hunt will start about 10:30 AM. Hunters may start the courses at any time until 1 PM. Courses close at 3 PM.
This event begins in the Mineral Wells picnic area in the northeast part of Griffith Park, nearby to "Travel Town." Look for signs and an orange-and-white orienteering flag at the starting site.
From the 134 freeway eastbound or westbound, take the Forest Lawn
Drive exit and go south. Turn left into park area on Zoo Drive towards Travel Town. At the entrance to Travel Town, turn right (south) onto Griffith Park Drive and follow it straight past Mt. Hollywood Drive (gated) on right and then a quarry on the left. You will soon see the picnic grounds (starting area) on your right. If you see the driving range, you have gone too far.
From I-5 northbound, exit at "Griffith Park." Turn right (north) on
Crystal Springs Drive and continue past the Ranger station on your right and the large picnic areas on your left. At the stop, turn left on Griffith Park Drive and head past the golf clubhouse and driving range to the Mineral Wells picnic area on your left.
A map to the site is at www.homingin.com. Call K0OV on 146.52 simplex if you have trouble finding the gathering area within the park.
73, Joe Moell K0OV