[MOham] Fw: Foxhunting/ARDF Equipment

[Ray Brown]

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  If anyone has any input, please contact Marvin directly at the address below,
don't just click Reply. Thank you!

    
                Ray, KB0STN



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marvin Johnston" <marvin at west.net>


> 
> Hi all,
> 
> One of the things I've been quite interested in is getting more people 
> involved in both transmitter hunting and ARDF (Amateur Radio Direction 
> Finding/Radio Orienteering.)
> 
> To that end, I've been providing Tape Measure Beams kits, offset 
> attenuator kits, and MicroHunt transmitters for quite a few years now. 
> Recently, I added a few more things to the mix trying to get equipment 
> available.
> 
> I am curious about a number of things related to increasing the 
> participation in transmitter hunting/ARDF.
> 
> * Where do/did you get your initial training? How could it have been 
> made better?
> 
> * Where do you get your equipment? Is it mostly homebrew, plans on the 
> Internet, magazine articles, or something else?
> 
> * If you are traveling, how do you find out when and where local hunts 
> are held in other parts of the country?
> 
> * How did you find out about the listservers/forums dedicated to 
> transmitter hunting?
> 
> * How can we reach more people, and with what kind of information to get 
> them interested and/or involved?
> 
> Your comments would be much appreciated!
> 
> Marvin, KE6HTS
> 
> P.S. my website is http://www.west.net/~marvin