[FARC] FARC Fox Hunt

[Brian Rozelle via FARC]

My apologies. I sent an email but didn't post it online. Our meeting was tonight at the Golden Corral. Our next regular meeting will be November 17 at the firehouse. Hope to see you there

73
Brian
AB3RW

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> On Oct 20, 2014, at 7:57 PM, James Kiser <james.r.kiser at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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