A PVT PLT'S RPT ON AN NMAC DURING A VFR DOWNWIND DEP PROC IN PROX OF THE APCH RTE. THE OTHER ACFT WAS ON A STRAIGHT IN APCH.

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AT XA55 LCL TIME; I DEPARTED RWY 32 USING FREQ 122.8 FOR MONTAGUE-YREKA ARPT. BEFORE DEP I ANNOUNCED THAT I WOULD USE A L DOWNWIND DEP TOWARD THE S. THERE WAS NO OTHER RPTED TFC IN THE PATTERN. THERE WAS AN EXPERIMENTAL ACFT RPTING 5 MI NE OF THE ARPT COMING IN TO LAND. AFTER DEP AND MY TURN DOWNWIND; I FLEW A COURSE OF 165 DEGS ROUGHLY PARALLEL TO THE APCH TO RWY 32. I HEARD OVER 122.8 AN ACFT CALL IN; HOWEVER; THE ACCENT OF THE VOICE WAS SUCH THAT I MISSED THE ARPT NAME; ETC. AT APPROX 4 MI S OF THE ARPT AND 3600 FT MSL; I OBSERVED A BEECH 99 TURBOPROP PASS OFF MY 9 O'CLOCK POS IN AN OPPOSITE DIRECTION APPROX 400-500 FT AWAY AND 10 FT BELOW MY ALT. AT THAT MOMENT THE BEECH 99 PLT SAID 'I HAVE THE MOONEY.' AT NO TIME PRIOR TO THIS DID HE MAKE ANY ATTEMPT TO CONTACT ME; OR INQUIRE AS TO MY POS EVEN THOUGH HE HEARD MY 2 POS RPTS PRIOR TO AND AFTER DEP. THE BEECH 99 PLT TOLD ME HE HAD CALLED IN HIS INTENTION TO DO A STRAIGHT-IN TO RWY 32 FROM 20 MI OUT; 10 MI; 5 MI ETC. THE COMPANY OPERATING THE BEECH MAKES DAILY ARRS INTO THIS ARPT; NOT USING THE PATTERN; ARRIVING INTO AN ENVIRONMENT OF SAIL PLANES; EXPERIMENTAL ACFT; STUDENT PLTS; ETC. THE PERCEPTION OF THIS NEAR MISS IN MY VIEW IS THAT ALL ACFT; EVEN THOSE WITHOUT RADIOS; MUST CLR A CORRIDOR 20 MI LONG AND WHO KNOWS HOW WIDE TO LET THIS TURBOPROP DO A STRAIGHT-IN FROM AT LEAST 20 MI OUT. IF ALLOWED TO CONTINUE; NEXT TIME IT MAY NOT BE A NEAR MISS. I FOLLOWED ALL NORMAL PROCS AND FEEL MY FLT RECORD OF 21 YRS SPEAKS FOR ITSELF. MY ONE ERROR WAS NOT CONTACTING THE BEECH 99 BEFORE OUR CLOSE ENCOUNTER. HOWEVER; SEVERAL ARPTS SHARE 122.8 IN OUR AREA OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA AND I MISSED THE CALL AT LEAST ONCE AND NEVER DID HEAR THE NAME MONTAGUE OR YREKA CALLED BY THIS BEECH 99. CALLBACK CONVERSATION WITH RPTR REVEALED THE FOLLOWING INFO: RPTR WAS COUNSELED AS TO THE USE OF THE FAA HOTLINE NUMBER FOR INCIDENTS OF THIS TYPE. HIS ACFT WAS AWAY FROM THE TFC PATTERN AND THE TYPE APCHS USED BY THE BYWAY ACFT AND THEIR PLTS POSED A HAZARD TO OTHER ACFT. RPTR SAID HE WOULD CALL THAT HOTLINE.