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elektra
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 12, 2003 - 7:06 pm: | 
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I live in Cedar Rapids, IA and have been playing for just under 2 years. I'm only 18, but I guess some of the guys have been playing since the middle 80's. Thats mostly what I use my radio for. Any recommendations for setups? Right now I have 2 7' firesticks on the back bumper of my grand cherokee. I've also used 2 fiberflass 102's, 2 mag mount k40 truckers on the back corners, and a 102 V setup. I think my current setup and the V works the best. |
Barefoot
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 12, 2003 - 7:39 pm: |
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What is foxhunt? |
Tech808
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 12, 2003 - 8:23 pm: |
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Barefoot,
A FOX HUNT is where you have one person (The FOX) with a transmitter go somewhere (Unknown) and transmit, it can be in the country or anywhere.
Then you try (HUNT) to find the location/person transmitting by just useing your Radio's and Meter's & Antenna's.
A good hand held antenna is also a big help.
It's a lot of fun, gennerally there is some sort of Prize for the first person to find them.
It can take Hours of driving and travelling thru the country / county trying to find them.
The more you can get Hunting the better.
Lon
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Tech833
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 12, 2003 - 8:41 pm: |
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Go to www.thunt.org
That's short for T-hunt. |
Bullseye
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 12, 2003 - 9:26 pm: |
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Played 2 or 3 nights a week in the early through mid 90's then the radio crowd seemed to just fade away. Wish I could get another crew up around here. |
Bigbob
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 12, 2003 - 10:26 pm: |
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Up here it is called cb-tag. |
radiodude
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 12, 2003 - 11:32 pm: |
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WE play every Sat afternoon here in SW Ohio |
Taz
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 12, 2003 - 11:51 pm: |
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lol 833.
You turn a fairly low end game with cobras into a gps commando hunt.
hehehe |
Bullet
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 13, 2003 - 1:25 am: |
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ihave not played that since the 80's it was a fun way to kill an afternoon. |
Simon
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 13, 2003 - 9:12 am: |
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Played on CB and various ham frequencies since I was 10. Can aslo be done as a pedestrian hunt to. Another variation is the talk in type. Where the hounds (hunters) must ask questions that the fox has to be able answer yes/no to. A well thought out question can give you a clue but send the others down a blind alley.
Not only did I use to take part in these but wrote a monthly column on it for an Australia radio magazine for a few years. |
Twa77
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 13, 2003 - 3:34 pm: |
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we used to play that what a blast |
ChillyDog
| | Posted on Thursday, August 14, 2003 - 12:47 am: |
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Twa77 is right: T-hunting was a blast!
During the late 60's there was a group of us who played in the Arlington, VA area. Good places to hide were along Four Mile Run.
During the early 70's did it in Biloxi, MS. To be fair to civilians, Keesler Air Force Base was off limits. To be fair to military types, the parking lot of the nightclub "Vapors" was off limits (forbidden to GIs!)
Middle and late 70's searched in the High Desert of California around Victorville and Adelanto. The ridge by the hospital was good, but you couldn't use it too often. Bell Hill was great, but rough on the ride! Back then we called the game "Marco Polo" ...
Seemed to fade out in the 80s. I don't know if that was because it was less popular or if I just didn't find the time.
In the area I now live, we use the same techniques to locate jerks. I'd rather play T-hunt than search for asses, but the challenge is still there!
Regards,
Bob |
Kd4amg
| | Posted on Thursday, August 14, 2003 - 4:07 pm: |
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...lessee let me guess... when you went looking for JERKS you did not let them know you were looking for them...right ? That way you could drive up on them and then not know you were looking for them ( the old " element of surprise " situation !! (lol) )......fox hunts are fun ! there are several variations to the rules....some times the transmitter has to be ON continously till some one finds it...other times it is ON 5 minutes OFF 1 minutes. Some times the transmitter has a voice,,,most times NOT !!...one time I heard of a fox hunt where the WINNER could keep the transmitter....and he got to be the one HIDING it the next time ( no other prizes, but if you won you got to HIDE the radio next time )....read of some folks that had a small lawn mower battery hooked up to a odrinary 4 watt radio, it was in a small bag, the coax came out the radio, and the antenna was a 102" steel whip, alongside a highway sign along the highway, could not be seen, since the whip was ( duck taped at various points ) to the highway sign from the ground up the pole, and that it took a LONG time for any one to actually find it...radio and battery were in the weeds or in a ditch nearby, with the coax run thru the weeds to the highway sign...guess every one knows that idea now...have fun with your radios ( that is one reason you have them )...kd4amg |
bruce
| | Posted on Thursday, August 14, 2003 - 10:00 pm: |
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A funny twist to foxhunts .... here in st. pete. about 10 years ago a guy was dilaing up 911 on the local repeater autopatch...... over 60 times... well as luck would have it a local club had a foxhunt for a sunday..... and as there getting ready to go out after the fox he starts dialing you guest it the patch again and again ...... gota! The best part is the ham who got to him and saw him dialing up the patch was a PINELLAS COUNTY OFFICER. Now talk about unlucky ...He coped a plea and ....sadly lost his job ....with the local christian tv station..... the daytime engineer. |
Taz
| | Posted on Friday, August 15, 2003 - 2:48 am: |
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http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~ian/cnm.html
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Tech833
| | Posted on Friday, August 15, 2003 - 12:50 pm: |
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Taz,
Actually, I get paid to do RDF work. I guess the 'Commando' part is really just a means of being ready to find any kind of signal in very short order. Those hams on that webpage are pretty good. I have participated in a couple of their hunts before.
Even though my gear makes a lot of theirs look pretty silly, I have been beat a few times. It's usually more about luck and good guesses than gear. |
Taz
| | Posted on Friday, August 15, 2003 - 4:40 pm: |
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Sounds fun 833.
Im not sure if your allowd to tell, but what kind of other cool projects do you participate in? |
Taz
| | Posted on Friday, August 15, 2003 - 6:08 pm: |
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833, those hunters live around stockton which if im not mistaken is close to you, how often do you play with them? |
Tech833
| | Posted on Saturday, August 16, 2003 - 5:01 pm: |
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Incorrect. Those hunters are around Fremont and Pleasanton which is over 100 miles from me. None live in Stockton that I am aware of.
Not often. Here and there.
833 |
RCI 2990
| | Posted on Saturday, August 16, 2003 - 11:09 pm: |
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Here in Indiana we used to play CB tag when i was in high school back in the early 1990s. Back then CB radio was a blast!! There were about 10 to 15 of us that would talk on Friday and Saturday nights.... |
Simon
| | Posted on Sunday, August 17, 2003 - 9:12 am: |
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Been a few times that I have used things learnt from foxhunting during S.A.R situations. Just never know when what you do for fun might actually be a useful skill. |
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