[GreenKeys] OT: transmitter (fox) hunt stuff

[Doug Alderdice]

On 9/3/2015 6:07 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> Oh, the stories I could tell, such as hiding the fox in a baby's pram (who
> will have the guts to sweep that?), or on the person of a cooperative
> Little Old Lady (ditto?), or putting the fox inside a bunch of thistles or
> nettles etc...

At the Horseheads, NY (aka Elmira) Hamfest each year they have a hidden 
transmitter "bunny hunt."  I've never really been into that but enjoy 
hearing the updates on the site PA system as guys are hunting around for it.

Well, the one year I apparently was standing somewhere in the vicinity 
of the "bunny" and there was a gent who was starting to get almost 
belligerent with me, insisting that I was "the bunny," which I was quite 
politely denying, because I wasn't!  He finally grumbled off on his way. 
  I figured out later what was causing the confusion: it was the zipper 
pull dangly on my hamfest backpack.  It's a Bugs Bunny head zipper pull, 
probably meant for kids or tweens, but I like rabbits and am a Bugs 
Bunny/Warner Bros. cartoon short fan so it's on my backpack. So there I 
was standing unbeknownst near the hidden tx which at this event is 
called "a bunny hunt," with a stuffed cartoon rabbit on my back pack. 
It's no wonder the guy didn't believe me when I said I wasn't the bunny!

73,

Doug, KA2WFT