VE6SRV

I guess I'm all out of excuses... got my patches today, thanks Cliffy and 300 Mag! Now I've got to figure out where to stick 'em! VE6SRV

I guess I'm all out of excuses... got my patches today, thanks Cliffy and 300 Mag! Now I've got to figure out where to stick 'em! VE6SRV

When the sun goes down at 5:00pm, and you have to work until 5:30, you sometimes have to play in the dark. Had no problems finding that one at all, but losing light, and the antenna from your GPS II+ is no fun. I headed into the bush for a quickie on the way home from a 6 km round trip into the Blackfoot cache. 1/2 a kilometer... I could do that one in 15 minutes tops. That is, until I snagged some bushes, and looked at my GPS to see the antenna was missing. Suddenly the GPS starts squawking about POOR COVERAGE! I stood perfectly still for the next 10 minutes looking at every little hole and dark spot in the 6 inches of snow... The antenna has to be here somewhere! I decided to abandon the hunt, and painstakingly backed out in my own footsteps when I could no longer see my shoes! I armed myself with a metal detector, and the next day went back to recover my antenna and the cache. Stepping into my last footprints, I noticed a funny little hole in the snow... BINGO, my lost antenna was found. 3 minutes more, and a cache was opened as well... Reflective tape only helps if there isn't 6 inches of snow on top of the tape! VE6SRV

When the sun goes down at 5:00pm, and you have to work until 5:30, you sometimes have to play in the dark. Had no problems finding that one at all, but losing light, and the antenna from your GPS II+ is no fun. I headed into the bush for a quickie on the way home from a 6 km round trip into the Blackfoot cache. 1/2 a kilometer... I could do that one in 15 minutes tops. That is, until I snagged some bushes, and looked at my GPS to see the antenna was missing. Suddenly the GPS starts squawking about POOR COVERAGE! I stood perfectly still for the next 10 minutes looking at every little hole and dark spot in the 6 inches of snow... The antenna has to be here somewhere! I decided to abandon the hunt, and painstakingly backed out in my own footsteps when I could no longer see my shoes! I armed myself with a metal detector, and the next day went back to recover my antenna and the cache. Stepping into my last footprints, I noticed a funny little hole in the snow... BINGO, my lost antenna was found. 3 minutes more, and a cache was opened as well... Reflective tape only helps if there isn't 6 inches of snow on top of the tape! VE6SRV