Eight teams started this event on a bright evening. Peter Bradley stood in at the last moment as hidden station operator. The signal was weakish at the start giving most teams a bearing of 160-ish with slight skywave drift. The bearings were applied from the Aylesbury map to the Oxford map and the bearing went near the Abingdon & Culham areas.

At the 8 pm transmission, a few teams made their bearings cross near to Culham village and on to the River Thames and Sutton pools. At the 8:15 transmission at least four teams were near to Culham where Peter's MG was found in a lay-by. Chris Plummer was seen walking down the river's edge and when the signal came on for the 8:30 transmission it gave us a signal back towards his car.

Just as I passed under some power lines Peter cut off his signal, but Chris had found the signal turn and as I ran across a footbridge Chris descended into a small copse near to the road and promptly found Peter. After thrashing up all sides of the bridge and road, I managed to find Peter, but only after Alan Simmons stated he had found Peter some time before (Drat!).

All eight teams found the transmitter in the time, with special congrats to Richard Wagner who has managed to find the Tx at last, on his only second time out, without opening the envelope.

Brian Bristow