[HCRA] New Years Day FoxHunt

[Larry Krainson]

New Years Day FoxHunt as sponsored by the Bears of Manchester. I plan on
attending and have 2 seats available in my vehicle if you want to join me.
Last year we had a blast! Greetings Foxhunters, Keeping with tradition, I
will be hosting a Foxhunt on New Years Day at 1 pm. This hunt will be
conducted in the same manner that we have previously conducted live
foxhunts.  The hunters will assemble at the  91 Ayers Road in South
Windsor,CT, home of the old Wapping Elementary School, be set up and ready
to start by 1pm. The fox will take aroll call at 1pm on the BEARS repeater,
145.110 MHz, PL tone is 77.0Hz.  This hunt will be conducted using the
repeater for all communication and information sharing.  I encourage
communication between participants and any base stations that can supply
helpful information to the hunters.  Once you have spotted the fox you
should stop all transmissions.  Pay attention, if someone says they are
going to check an area and you never hear from them again, that might be a
clue.  Remember not to hunt the repeater output frequency as that will just
lead you to the repeater.  I will not be there.  You will want to listen on
the repeater input frequency, 144.510MHz.  That is the frequency the fox
will be transmitting on. The fox will be located within 20 air miles of the
starting point and not within Hartford or Springfield. The fox will be on
publicly accessible property that will not require anything other that a
standard passenger car for access.  The fox will host a "tailgate"
party at the end of the hunt at the "den". If this is your first hunt, I
would recommend riding along with someone who has done this before.  Dress
warmly as you will be outside at the end for the party, the rest of the
time you will be in and out of the car taking bearings etc. Experience has
shown that hunters will start arriving in the den about 1 hour after the
start.  The event has a two hour time limit not including socializing in
the den at the end. Current information regarding this and other foxhunts
in Connecticut are on Yahoo.  If you are not already a group member, you
may want to consider signing up for the Yahoo group CTFOXHUNTER so that you
do not miss any important foxhunt related news. 73,Paul, N1TUP


73,

Larry/W1AST