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Sand Bar:


It was Trip's turn to hide the transmitter, and he'd asked to borrow my camo netting for this hide, so I knew
it was going to be a difficult round. This netting was the decorative kind you'd find at a seafood restaurant
where they have starfish and plastic fish and octopus etc tangled up in the square, olive-drab netting that
hangs up in a corner or on a wall. But it works REALLY well to camouflage things. You just throw the net down
in a heap over what you want to hide, and then toss a few handfuls of whatever is around you into the net. The
debris sticks to the net and stays in place, and the net just visually disappears. It's like magic.

So we're out by the river looking around. He knows I've got a working doppler on my truck so he's not going
anywhere near a paved road or anything drivable. I find myself out on an island on the edge of the river, and
the best signal I can find is out on a big, open sand bar. I'm with Harold - I've got my hand-held finder and
he's got a walkie talkie with collapsable antenna and big meter.

Trip is there with a friend, watching us struggle. We go away from the sand bar in ANY direction, and my
finder just points back at the middle of the sand bar. Now there's absolutely nothing there. Just a few small
twigs, rocks, a few leaves, and lots of flat sand. But this transmitter has a great signal, so it's got to be
hooked to a decent, well-placed antenna. It should be easy to spot, but where is it?

There are two other groups of CB'ers here too. We all know it's somewhere right here, we just can't nail it
down. So we move back to the edge of the sand bar again to take a fresh look. I see something. Of course.
That's clever! Harold realizes I know where it's at, SHOW ME! ok ok hold your horses, we have company. So
I stand facing away from the sand bar and facing him, tell him to look over my shoulder. See that tree off
to the left edge of the sand bar, that's growing out over the sand bar and over the water? See that spot
where the trunk divides into two branches? See that lump there where they split off? No, DON'T POINT.
Just look. If you look carefully, you'll see a dark line going from there over to the tree. That's a rope,
camouflage colored. Probably to lower it down.

It was 30 feet up, directly over the middle of the sand bar we'd been scouring for the last 30 minutes.


2011.11.04 bronco and trip (in 2 old CB foxhunts)



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