[FARC] FARC "Approved" Minutes for March 19, 2012

Wed Apr 25 09:50:32 EDT 2012

Phil, thanks for the clarification between fox hunting and search
and rescue. 

Basically, fox hunting is a "radio sport" and maybe the
closest I will ever get to exercising! Think of all the calories we
could burn walking a few steps, getting a bearing on the hidden
transmitter and then walking a few steps again. Ha! Actually, I'm very
much looking forward to trying fox hunting out. I hope it's as much fun
as it sounds. 

73, 

--David, K3PO 

On 25.04.2012 06:14, Philip Karras
wrote: 

> Fox Hunting is NOT for finding lost persons UNLESS
> they
have a transmitter with them that they are keeping on for the purpose
of
> using it to help people with DF (Direction Finding) radio equipment
to locate
> them & their transmitter. The term "Fox Hunting" is really
used
> for the practice of placing a hidden transmitter someplace and
then having a
> group of people with receivers try to locate, and be the
first to find, the
> transmitter. It is usually on for a minute and off
for five or something like
> that.
> Fox Hunting skills can be used to
find/locate
> a transmitter that is (usually) interfering with a lagit
transmitter, or for
> finding people who have an emergency transmitter
with them, which will NOT be
> in the amateur radio bands.
> But, in
general, the people we will probably
> try to locate in our county,
either wandered away, or went hiking & fell
> & can't get up. They will
NOT have such an emergency
> transponder/transmitter with them, and
almost certainly they will not have an
> amateur radio transmitter with
them either. They might have their cell phone
> & it might or might not
be able to get to a cell site from their location
> so they might or
might not be able to to place a call.
> Few, very few, have an amateur
radio with
> them, but usually if they do they get rescued and we read
about it in QST. The
> vast majority do not and then it's a crap shoot
as to finding them in time.
> This is NOT Fox Hunting, this is Search
and Rescue (S&R). Once found by an
> amateur we might be able to use Fox
Hunting skills to locate the ham who made
> the find using his
transmissions to locate on. But, I'd hope that by now any
> ham engaged
in S&R will have a GPS with them and can simply relay, or
> transmit,
their Lat/Lon coordinates.
> 73 de ke3fl
> Phil
> Karras
> AEC
> Carroll
County, MD
> 
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> From:
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> To: farc at mailman.qth.net [3]Sent: Tuesday,
April 24, 2012 8:31 AM
> Subject: Re: [FARC] FARC "Approved" Minutes for
March 19, 2012
> 
> Mornin', everybody.
> 
>> Jim Ridgley asked if
anybody was familiar
> 
> with "Fox Hunting". Jim sees
> 
>> this as a
good potential service we
> 
> might provide in helping to find
> > 
>
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> anybody. A $60.00 dues pay
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> return $45.00 with an accompanying
> letter to Mr. Jenness
and only 
> 
> accept from him $15.00 dues payment for
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> re>member
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> -RACES - A COMEX was held on March 13, 2012. Jim
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reach the 147.060 MHz repeater in case of the 
> 
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> blockquote>
> repeater of
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Department Quarterly Net 
> 
> on 4-3-2012
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>> 
>> DAY - Sched
> 23-24, 2012 from the proposed site at End of
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> meeting ended at 8:39 pm.
> Dennis Campbell - KB3WLJ
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