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5B4AIT HamSphere Fox Hunt 30 March - 7 April 2013-03-29 23:37	Admin Registered: 17 years ago Posts: 1,061

We are proud to present a brand new activity on HamSphere which we call the HamSphere Fox hunt. Everyone is welcome to participate in this rather special contest that will be carried out for a little over a week. The Amateur Radio term "foxhunting" refers to another kind of Radio Direction Finding (RDF) contest, done completely on foot in large woods and parks. It's a map-and-compass sport similar to orienteering, with about a half-dozen "fox" transmitters to find in a period of two hours or so. Someday this sport, which is also called foxtailing, fox-teering and radio-orienteering, may become an Olympic event. Meanwhile, it's a fun-filled activity for your hamfests and Scout Jamborees. On HamSphere we can't do direction finding, but we can hide transmitters. The fox hunting is not about Morse Code really. You can just count the dots in the last character of the ID. We have hidden 5 Ham Radio fox transmitters on all bands of HamSphere except BC. Foxes are ID:ed MOE, MOI, MOS, MOH and MO5. They all transmit with slow morse code with 100 milliwatts so can be difficult to spot if propagation is low. This particular hunt will be carried out until Sunday 7th of April 2013 23.59 UTC and the objective is to log as many foxes as possible. To ID the Foxes, for example MOE will transmit Dah,Dah followed by Dah, Dah, Dah followed by Dit Please log UTC, QRG and Fox-ID in your log books. The Fox transmitters are moving around and use different frequencies and bands. There is a 1.5 sec carrier wave before ID to make it easire to spot them. Winners will be rewarded free subscriptions and other goodies. The Hunt is on !!! You can listen to a fox demo transmitter on 6210 kHz, Stockholm server #6. It transmits with 0.1 Watts every 15 seconds.
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