Fox hunt

See the wikipedia artocle Amateur Radio Direction Finding

Rules

Red areas and buildings are off limits.

• need a start and end time?

Start

11/21/08 5:30pm in room 456A

Rules for the Hounds

• Stay within the established perimeter
  • Gemini circle
  • Fox will be outside at all times
• 1 Hour time limit
• Confirm the fox verbally by asking "Are you the fox?"
• Code word to probe the fox.

Rules for the fox

• don't enter any buildings or disrupt activities
• don't cross traffic roads

Fox hunting hardware

fox beacon

• bionics piccon beacon (club now has one of these)

Receivers

• any HT
• Icom rc2 wide band receiver
• zap checker

active devices

• bionics doppler rangefinder requires additional parts
• N0GSG doppler DSP Radio Direction Finder (QST November 2002, pg 29)

Antennas

• Arrow foxhunting loop (expensive, see Antenna Book version)
• Tape measure yagi
• Small loop / faraday loops
• Variable attenuator
• handi finder

Fox hunting stories

• Wildlife radio telemetry on google
• Burrowing Owl project
• Bear hunt