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Last update on:
Sunday, November 18, 2001
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Working on this page!
Any suggestions?
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Draft
1) Check 'Schedule of Hunts' web page. Verify
the date/time/location.
2) Check the 'Equipment' web page. Get some idea's on what
equipment you have or can borrow.
A) At a minimum, you'll need one receiver capable
of tuning in the hidden transmitter frequency.
B) Map of the hunt area. Compass, protractor and
pencil.
C) 2-meter beam would be nice.
D) Paper clip.
3) Get to the start point.
4) When the fox begins transmitting, get a bearing with your
receiver, body-fade or with your beam.
5) Plot the bearing on your map.
6) Drive a few miles along the bearing you drew on your map.
7) Park your car in a legal and safe
place, take another
bearing. Plot this bearing on your map.
8) Drive a few more miles and take another bearing. Item (6
& 7) above.
9) When you begin hearing the hidden transmitter on your
receiver, your getting close.
10) Take more bearings. Items (6 & 7).
11) Take the antenna off your receiver. If you begin hearing the
hidden transmitter without an antenna, you are probably within
walking distance of it.
12) Park your car and body-fade to the
hidden transmitter.
TIP: Body-fade using the receiver's antenna close to your body.
When the signal becomes full scale, replace your antenna with
the paper clip. When that becomes full scale, take the paper
clip out, using no antenna at all. |
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Some RULES I
have learned while transmitter hunting.
1) Follow your initial bearing.
2) Get back on, your initial bearing.
3) Trust your equipment.
4) Check your immediate options before committing to a new
direction and Once you commit to any direction, don't
change your mind until your prove it incorrect. You don't
want to return to the area you just came from.
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Typical FOX Frequencies |
3rd
Harmonic |
| 144.060 MHz (10-mw) |
432.180 MHz |
| 146.310 MHz (10-mw) |
438.930 MHz |
| 146.415 MHz (Primary) |
439.245 MHz |
| 146.445 MHz (Rarely Used) |
439.335 MHz |
| 146.490 MHz (Secondary) |
439.470 MHz |
| 146.535 MHz (Stockton) |
439.605 MHz |
| 146.565 MHz (National) |
439.695 MHz |
| 146.800 MHz (10-mw) |
440.400 MHz |
| 147.435 MHz (10-mw) |
442.305 MHz |
| 147.455 MHz (Stockton) |
442.365 MHz |
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