Re: [TSCM-L] {1863} Re: Low power devices - Fox Hunts
James M. Atkinson wrote:
> Since I grew up in a Coastal New England community I used to go on
> Fox Hunts in the White Mountains, in the Osippee area, and around
> Mount Desert Island. Didn't really care for hunting around the lakes
> and marshes, and likes the mountains and coastline better.
>
> The ones I enjoyed the most involved an unknown frequency, unknown
> locations, but a quasi unknown time transmitting where it chirped, so
> the first thing you had to do is figure out the timing duration and
> frequency before you could do anything else. Then it was
> rush-like-hell to a second location to capture a second chirp to DF
> to get a little closer, and then spiral in on the fox.
>
> I also liked the ones where we started 10 miles away from the fox,
> but each time the fox transmitted the power levels dropped so you had
> to move fast because you only had a 4 hour window or less before the
> fox died as the power level dropped to the noise floor.
>
> The ones that started on an HF frequency where loads of fun where a
> helium balloon was used to hold up a long wire antenna for the first
> hour, then the balloon would get released, and the fox switched to a
> different transmitter, on a different frequency, and then an hours
> later another switch, and so on.
>
> The losers bought dinner and/or movies for the winners, and the
> winners got to help the hunt masters (or game warden is you will)
> plant the next fox.
>
> I never had any interest in the building and planting the fox, but
> enjoyed the hunt more then anything else, especially when it you
> could not use radios for communications and had to sneak up on the
> fox from some distance away.
>
> I don't recall any of the foxes being more then a couple of Watts,
> and recall that the best ones would drop below 100 mW by the time the
> hunters got within a mile, and under 10 mW within a quarter mile.
>
> -jma
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