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Welcome to the Fathers Day Fox Hunt Sunday 16th June
2013-06-13 12:11 |
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Fathers Day Fox Hunt Sunday 16th June Father's Day in 2013 is on Sunday, the 16th of June and HamSphere celebrates this with a 24 hour Fox Hunt. The winners will as usual receive extensions on their subscriptions. The Amateur Radio term "Fox Hunting" 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, foxteering 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. We have hidden 5 Ham Radio fox transmitters on all bands of HamSphere except BC. 
Foxes are ID’d by: MOE, MOI, MOS, MOH and MO5. They all transmit with slow Morse code with 100 milliwatts so they can be difficult to spot if propagation is low. This particular hunt will be carried out Sunday 16th June 2013 00.00 UTC until 23:59 UTC and the objective is to log as many foxes as possible. The fox hunting is not about Morse code. You can just count the dots in the last character of the ID. 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 logbooks. 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 easier to spot them. 5 Winners will be rewarded free subscription extensions. 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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