[PPRAANet] 4/18/21 PPRAA Spring Fox Hunt!

[Lee Davis]

Hi Jason,

I have a tape measure antenna that I built, but I don’t have an attenuator. Is the attenuator something that I could pick up online? Or is that some thing that people usually build?

Thanks,
Lee

> On Apr 7, 2021, at 8:38 AM, Jason Taylor <jay at overvolt.net> wrote:
> 
> In celebration of World Amateur Radio Day, the PPRAA is hosting another fox
> hunt! On April 18th, starting at 10:00am and running until approximately
> 1:00pm (though we might wrap up early!)
> 
> There will be a social net on the Cheyenne Mountain Repeater Group repeater
> (147.345+ 107.2hz) starting at about 9:45am.
> 
> Lessons learned from the last fox hunt that W0XLD hosted: ATTENUATORS ARE
> YOUR FRIEND! Also, switchable attenuators are preferred as they're much
> quicker to manage than the stackable inline style.
> 
> If you don't currently have a 2 meter yagi, you have plenty of time to
> build one! Here are directions to a tape measure antenna that is reported
> to work quite well! https://www.instructables.com/The-Tape-Measure-Antenna/
> 
> See below for the area the fox might be!
> 
> http://www.overvolt.net/ppraa/foxarea.png
> 
> If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me!
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jason Taylor // K0WTF
> k0wtf at arrl.net
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