[FoxHunt] Civil Air Patrol Foxhunt

Wed, 20 Mar 2002 22:20:46 -0700

The New Mexico search and rescue support team has ELT practice sessions on
121.775Mhz. The last one was just a few weeks ago in the Jamez Mountains. The
practice sessions are full up mock missions exercising ELT location
,communications support and crash site recovery.

Our team responds to most ELTs in New Mexico. We have been doing this for some
time.

The number of the practice sessions that we hold may go up because of our
ability to use 121.775 at any time. Our old ELT practice frequency (100 kHz
above the real ELT freq.) required coordination with the FAA. That was not easy
to get for that frequency. The new one works very well because we can use it
anytime (this may only be valid in NM check with your local FAA).

Our team operates under the direction of the New Mexico department of safety.
They receive the sat sat reports from the air force when ever hits are reported
in our state. Our team ts the first one called out to respond. We use APRS and
computer mapping software for data reduction.

Because of the mountains in NM most "real" ELT's occur in bad weather when CAP
can not fly. Our team is a first response ground team that can go out and start
hunting as soon as the call is received an any weather. We get long range
bearings using interferometers. Interferometers are good at indicating
multipath.  That's important because you don't want to send a foot team up the
wrong canyon.

My last "real" ELT hunt was at 11000 feet in during an early fall storm. We
hiked to the crash site on foot.

A majority of the ELT missions in NM end up being aircraft parked at airports
(must have had a hard landing). Don't know if that's common problem in other
areas.

Jerry WB8WFK
VP New Mexico search and rescue support team

Charles E. Scharlau wrote:

> When I lived near Seattle, Washington, the local group of fox hunters had a
> good relationship with the CAP. It was very helpful to participate in their
> PELT hunts, and both the CAP and the foxhunters learned from one another. I
> would highly recommend bring the two groups together.
>
> Charles E. Scharlau
> NZ0I
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected]
> > [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of J. Craswell
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 4:34 PM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: [FoxHunt] Civil Air Patrol Foxhunt
> >
> >
> > Our Squadron is hosting a Foxhunt in November and we were
> > thinking we might
> > make that an open invite to Radio Amateurs as well.  It would be done on
> > 121.775  and possibly 243.2 (If permission is granted) perhaps we could
> > include amateur signals (146.55 or?) at the same locations.  Our Wing
> > Foxhunts have been on foot with a handful of transmitters on the same
> > frequency.  We have allowed "teams" using a single DF unit to work
> > independently.  What do the readers of this list think?  Would that be of
> > interest to you?
> >
> > Jay (W0VNE) Craswell, Capt
> > 130th Composite Squadron
> > Minnesota Civil Air Patrol
> >
> > http://www.mnwg.cap.gov/130th
> >
> >
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