Ive hidden the fox in a sewer, with the 19" whip sticking thru the
manhole cover, Hid in a tree, over the bank of a cliff.
In our version, the winner got to hide the next one.
James M. Atkinson wrote:
> Back in the mid 1970's in Boston we used to play an electronics game
> called "Fox Hunts" where Ham Radio types would hide a beacon on an
> unknown frequency in one of the ham radio bands, then detect the
> signal when it popped up (usually a 5 second Morse code beacon every
> 15 minutes).
>
> Then as the game went on the power would drop dramatically so that
> after several hours of hunting the fox the power was in the
> sub-milliwatt power level. The really fun ones were where they kept
> the power levels at a full watt of more to get the hunters within a
> mile, but once you get within a mile the fox went onto a different
> radio and never went over 1 mW.
>
> You could usually drive to within a mile of the transmitter, but the
> last mile or so required you to be on foot for the last mile or two.
>
> -jma
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