The Reading Radio Club
W3BN S3CCH
ARRL Affiliated February 17 1922
FOX
HUNTING
Welcome
to the Fox Hunting page for the Reading Radio Club.
The
importance of this part of the Ham Radio is paramount to just having fun. The
FOX hunt is training for finding transmitters located all over the world. It is
a situation where we hunt for transmitters just like those they put in snakes,
collars of bear, foxes and other animals that roam the woods. Part of the
training is locating downed planes, hikers with radios, and rogue transmitters.
We as Hams also help the Emergency services. We will help Police, Fire and any
other EMS protocols that need us to find a transmitter.
The
Reading Radio Club has 2 owned fox transmitter, with a
few of the members have transmitters with much less power. Our fox transmitters
at the club are 5 watt and 3 watt. The privately owned
transmitters are from 1 watt down to 15 milliwatt.
This
2 element antenna is a YAGI It can be purchased on
line from Arrow Antenna systems.
This
is a three element home brew 2 meter antenna.
These
attach directly to your HT, the left one is a 2 meter
directional and the right one is 440.
This
is a satellite specific directional for talking to and receiving from ISS.2mtr
440.
Our
Fox hunts are held Saturdays and or Sunday afternoon. We hunt two different
ways. We start at a control point with a net controller and hunt from there
with everyones help, or we start at home and hunt on
your own. Even if you start at the control point, you are on your own once you
that location.
The
main foxes are 5 watt and 3 watt and send out a signal that can be heard on
your radio. They are programmed to be within FCC rules with identifying morse
after every transmission.
After
the main location is found where the asst net controller has set up the foxes,
the rest of the foxes are set around the area for ground search. Both the Net
controller and the asst net controller assist those hunting the locale.
All
foxes are on a different simplex channel, and have
different tones.
Ron,
K3RJW has equipment for use by anyone, and also has
that equipment for sale. Ron also gives private fox hunts near his QTh and only needs a few hours to set up the foxes for the
private lesson.
If
any other information is needed, please contact
Ron
Waszk, K3RJW
Chair person
for Fox Hunts
Joe
Pietruszynski,AC3DI
Asst
Chair person