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[Stephen Leander]

At the last meeting I offered to get a Fox Hunt going as there hasn't been
one in a while.  I was pretty active in T-Hunts (what we called them) when I
lived in Southern California, the club I was most active in (South Orange
Amateur Radio Association or SOARA) hosted their hunt on the first Sunday of
every month.  Other clubs hosted them weekly - and some were pretty
challenging.  Here's a link to their T-hunt page for some interesting
reading: http://www.soara.org/T-hunt.htm.

 

I am not sure how hunts were run here - I'll throw out some ground rules
here and if we need to change them to accommodate how things have been done
here in the past that's fine.  Here is what I propose:

 

Date and time:                  Sunday, April 11th @ 1pm (since the first
Sunday is Easter!)

Where (start point):       TBD (but inside the box described below)

Fox frequency:                 146.565 (National T-Hunt frequency)

Coordination Freq:          448.600 MHz (-), 114.8Hz tone - W0MOG repeater

Hunt Parameters:            Located between I-25 and Powers Blvd., with a
northern boundary of Woodman Road and a southern boundary of 24
(MLK/Fountain Blvd.). 

 

 

I attached a Google Earth file that shows the area shaded (Google Earth must
be installed to view this). The fox will transmit a series of tones for
about 30 seconds, followed by "KV6O/T1" in CW, then it will be off the air
for 15 seconds of so. This will repeat until the hunt is over. It will be
running about 1W into a vertical antenna - no beams of trickery this time!

 

I was thinking of meeting somewhere around N. Carefree and Academy - pretty
close to the middle of the "box" and record everyone's mileage - lowest
mileage wins.  Or we could do a "First to Find" it wins, with no start point
- you pick a spot and the Fox will come on the air at 1pm.  Suggestions
welcome!

 

Lastly, I can host a mini hunt on Easter afternoon if anyone is interested -
an on-foot hunt in Memorial Park perhaps?  Something within 500-1000 feet or
so to get familiar with your gear/technique. The Fox would be a Bunny I
guess!

 

Looking forward to getting this going again!

 

Steve

KV6O