[FoxHunt] oscillator radiation question

[Kuon & Dale Hunt]

Sam Smith wrote:

>We used some of my transmitters for the practice in Albuquerque. At that
>time I had the oscillator running all the time, and I could "hear" them
>from quite a distance. If I remember correctly, one of the transmitters
>failed and you could only hear the oscillator, and Jerry Boyd found it
>anyway.

   And, of course, there is always the 4.915 MHz oscillator in the
   Montreal Controllers that someone could try to hunt if their
   receiver tuned up that high!

   Actually, I almost did this on "the most difficult" transmitter
   hunt.  Someone hid one of the 2m transmitters and forgot to
   turn it on.  All we had to go on was "sorta on the south side,
   behind a log under some ferns".  (Those of you who hunted
   Silver Falls State Park in 1999 will remember how common logs
   and ferns are here in Oregon!)

   Actually we finally found it after about two hours by marking
   all the many trails with rocks after we had searched each
   segment.  This eventually narrowed it down until we found
   the trail that led to the correct log and ferns.


         - Dale WB6BYU