The next CVARC foxhunt will take place on Saturday, May 22nd. There will also be a “rough terrain” hunt on May 15th for those looking for more of a challenge!
Rules
- Fox will be hidden somewhere within a VT county in a publicly-accessible location. You will not be required to pay to access an area to find the fox, or to walk onto someone’s property (but don’t discount the end of dead-end roads)
- The transmitter will be on the air by 10am on the morning of the hunt, and off at 6pm that evening.
- Fox will use the nationally-accepted 2 meter fox hunt frequency of 146.565 MHz
- Fox will transmit a short beep every two seconds, then transmit a CW ID on the FM carrier every 20 ‘beeps’.
COVID-19 restrictions
- Please follow VT’s current guidelines for public gatherings.
Scoring and reporting
- The transmitter will have a laminated sheet with a marker attached for scoring. When you find the fox, fill out the sheet with your name or call sign, and local time at which you found the fox.
- Once you’ve filled out the sheet, leave the area – if others participating in the hunt see you hanging around, it may tip them off to the location of the fox!
- As a common courtesy to others, please don’t announce where you found the fox (on local repeaters, the fox output frequency, w1bd.net website, Facebook, etc.) – we want everyone to have fun with this, even those that can’t participate right at the start of the hunt.
Recommended gear
Minimum:
- 2 meter radio with a removable rubber duckie antenna
- Paper clip
Extra gear (not required, but helpful):
- Portable directional antenna (Yagi, Moxon, cubical quad)
- Adjustable RF attenuator, passive or active
- Receiver with SSB/CW mode capability
- Compass or GPS unit
- Map, atlas, or gazetteer
