[FARC] FARC Fox Hunt

[James Kiser]

When and where is next meeting ?  No one at Firewall on Monday 20th?
On Oct 19, 2014 10:20 PM, "Mark Whitmore" <m.e.whitmore at comcast.net> wrote:

> The first annual FARC Fox Hunt was held yesterday in Baker Park in
> Frederick.
> I have not had a chance to talk to the other participants but I personally
> had a great
> time even though I didn't find the foxes.  I want to thank our president,
> Brian Rozelle
> (AB3RW), for organizing this event and making it happen.
>
> First prize went to Herb Palm (K3HCP) who found both foxes while the rest
> of us were
> wandering around in the park.  Herb used his homemade tape measure-and-PVC
> pipe
> four element yagi with great success.
>
> Lou Popowsky (KB3RNT) brought two homemade directional antennas. He used
> one
> and let me use the other.  I was able to get the general direction to the
> hidden foxes but
> also got a lot of misleading nulls that slowed me down and added an
> element of confusion.
> I now think these were caused by reflections from chain link fences and
> other structures in
> and around the park.
>
> Mel Schall (KB3ZVB) had a direction finding receiver that is used by the
> CAP to track beacons
> from downed aircraft.  Not sure how well this worked.  I noticed that Mel
> had changed to using
> his hand held with a rubber ducky antenna and a couple of 7DB pads. Mel
> also loaned two
> pads to me but even with 14DB of attenuation the signal from the fox was
> too strong to get a
> definite line to the fox.
>
> Jeff Fishman (KB3FIO) was also using the technique that he had mentioned
> at the last meeting.
> That is, using the hand-held antenna and using your body to block the
> signal.  Don't know how
> close Jeff got to the fox.
>
> It was good to see two younger participants that I did not get a chance to
> meet.
>
> All in all, it was fun and I hope we can do it again.   With what I
> learned from this experience,
> I will be better prepared for the next one.
>
> 73,
> Mark (AB3KS)
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