[FQP]Re: [FCG] FQP NJ4M/M M/SABMixed (sometimes) LP Summary

[Jim White, K4OJ]

We found the road - no help from any sort of signage - the only clue was 
that in Dolphs it shows Tamiami trail taking a bend at that point and 
there was a nearby bend in the road....

We drove down the road for a while and then there was a change in the 
method of paving, we took that as the county line and started signing MON...

Eventually that road turned into crushed shells and no asphalt to be 
seen... then we saw one of those "you are here" outposts which had a map 
in it and I jumped out (Kevin was operating at the time) and walked over 
to it to find that, YES the road was indeed the one it seems to be... I 
hadn't seen a gator in the road for over a quarter mile, the one we saw 
was just a baby mebbe 4 foot long or so, so I felt comfortable taking a 
look see at the covered sign.

For future reference it was refered to as somethin' "Loop" which kind of 
makes sense when you look at it on the map, and if you watch the 
odomoeter you can work backwards to that point, and remember the shapr 
crick in the road, to find it...

What really surprised me was that this was not the county which was most 
prolific as far as QSOs - I expected a real flurry of activity for 
Kevin, and it was decent but we only made 74 QSOs form MON before we 
said time for Collier which turned out to be the most prolific for us at 
115 QSOs...

I agree with George, there sure were a lot of "turkey hawks/vultures" 
waiting for or working on Road kill.... we almost hit a turtle (or is 
that a TOrtoise) when we wer on the trail in Collier - he was far across 
that I stradled him with the wheel base and yes, he was fine in the rear 
view....

That part of the trip was one of the worst as far as road quality, thank 
god we had the computer and NA - sending CW when you are bouncin g 
around like that is NO fun!

Back to net.........

K4OJ





Georgek5kg at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 4/28/2003 11:08:37 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
> wd4ahz at gte.net writes:
> 
> 
>>Sorry we missed the dirt road turnoff into MON (it's dark in the 
>>Everglades at night!) and ran out out time before we could make it to 
>>DES.  Some of the comments I've seen, made it sound like they were in 
>>demand ... but glad others were able to pick up our "slack"!
>>
> 
> 
> Don't be sorry.  We finally found that lane into MON and went down it until 
> we ran out of road without removing antennas (due to overgrowth).  Jim was 
> driving and had to stop to chase an alligator off the road...er, uh was it 
> the other way around?  At that point there were two more by my back door, so 
> I dared not get out else get eaten.
> 
> And speaking of being eaten...you ain't seen so many mean flying things as 
> are down there.  
> 
> Jim finally managed (carefully) to back the car out and back to safety.  What 
> a trip!
> 
> Geo + Jim
> 
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