[FoxHunt] Did you read the ARRL Letter?

[wolfbob]

At the local ARRL convention in San Diego I suggested that 
the Boy Scouts initiate a program of DF and Orienteering 
into the merit badge program.

I suggested they use the very cheap GMRS type hand helds 
($20/pr at Wal-Mart) issue a pair along with a compass, 
local map and a rubberband to a sub group of three scouts. 
One hides the transmitter and watches, another uses body 
shielding to determine the direction to the transmitter that 
is on by using the rubber band. The third scout takes a 
bearing  with the compass. Note that the body shielding has 
the "radio scout" facing away from the transmitter so he 
needs the "compass scout" to sight down the part in his 
hair. They plot the bearing on the map, figure out where to 
move to get a cross bearing etc.

No reason why this cannot be done in the classroom. It 
teaches maps, compass, magnetism, radio propagation and 
properly used,  sex.

Jippy.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dale Hunt, WB6BYU" <wb6byu at arrl.net>
To: "ardf" <ardf at kkn.net>; "foxhunt" 
<foxhunt at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 12:05 AM
Subject: [FoxHunt] Did you read the ARRL Letter?


>I just noticed this in the ARRL letter:
>
> Regarding the ARRL "Big Project", formally called the
> Education and Technology Program (ETP), Coordinator
> Mark Spencer, WA8SME said about the Teacher's Institutes 
> (TI)
> that they offer:
>
>>
>> "This has resulted mainly in changes to the TI content," 
>> Spencer explains.
>> "In future TIs, I will increase emphasis on space and on 
>> radio
>> direction-finding -- fox hunting."
>
>
> What can we all be doing to support this?  Any
> good ideas?
>
>      - Dale WB6BYU
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