[FoxHunt] A Question

[Jay Hennigan]

Subject: [FoxHunt] A Question
> 
> When your group does a FOX HUNT.  
> 
> questions,
> 
> Do you use a Live Fox, ( A ham in his car or on foot hiding )  

Rarely - see below.

> Or one of the more or less computer controlled stand along Fox Transmitters.

Typically.

> And how many participate on a typical hunt?

>From one to ten groups.

> How many years have you been holding hunts?

Off and on for 30 years.

> How often do you hold a hunt? 

Somewhat continuously now, see below.

Some background....

I'm in the Santa Barbara area, presently President of the Santa Barbara
Amateur Radio Club.  We held mobile hunts monthly for many years but
interest has waxed and waned typically in response to gas prices.  At
times five years ago we would have up to ten cars lined up at the start.

In addition our group is quite active in ARDF, also known as
radio-orienteering, on-foot competitive racing in wooded areas.  We
typically have an ARDF practice event every couple of months for the
annual USA championships and bi-annual world championships.

A couple of months ago I placed a stationary transmitter with a low duty
cycle encouraging collaboration in finding it.  This has generated some
interest.  It's a micro-hunt transmitter with a pack of D-cells that
will power it for a couple of months continuously.  Once everyone
interested finds it, we move it to another location.  This gets more
folks interested with reports such as whether they can hear it from
their houses, etc.  It's modeled after this style:

http://www.thunter.org/geothunt/
http://home.comcast.net/~foxbw/site/?/page/FOXRADIO/

It will be written up in the March issue of the club publication, URL
here but the issue isn't out yet, probably will show up this week:

http://sbarc.org/publications/key-klix/key-klix.html

At the present time we aren't doing any mobile hunts in the local area.


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