Well It seems the man was out in fource this weekend.
I didnt have the same problem as our friend Bruce but it could of 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 dont talk in normal geography. I
did most of the rim loop and worked alot
form cloud cap and the intersection of SR209 and the rim drive. 7800'
Anyway on the way down the north face of the mt, 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 opertunity to point
out a great opertunity of making a far off contact on vhf or above.
At this pullout with the missprinted plaque I took the opertunity to reward
my fellow contesters with contacts with the nether regions or black hole we
refer to as CN83. After giving about 10 people oppertunity 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 thats 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 didnt need
a permit, I was licenced. Then he asked if I was listening in on importent
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 licences 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 aninmals with the radio collars. Well I had to
hold my tounge. I wanted to tell him he caought 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 buisness 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 wasnt stealing copper, I had all my teeth and I couldnt
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
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