Fellow fox hunters, the results of yesterday's IRA Hamfest Foxhunt have been
posted on the MichiganFoxHunter Website.  See the following link.

http://www.MichiganFoxHunter.com

Congrats to the fox, James, K8JHR

Not much lead time.    It will be difficult to move my previously
scheduled matters.   Darn.

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=======================  Richards / K8JHR  =========================

On 7/1/2011 15:54, kc8pcj wrote:
>
>
> I understand there will be a fox on the loose somewhere near the W8ZHO
> Club House on July 9, just prior to a dinner which will be at the club
> house.

Have a good time.   Not enough advance notice for me to make it
this time.    Hope the weather cooperates !

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=======================  Richards / K8JHR  =========================

On 7/6/2011 16:33, kc8pcj wrote:

> I know its short notice but I was waiting on more information from the
> club, on the times for the dinner.


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Good hunt Chuck!  Thanx to K8IHY for allowing us to crash there!

Now, get ready guys and gals for the Hunt of the Month, coming on one of the
(most likely) Saturdays in August.  This is the part where you *try* to find me.

Laryn K8TVZ

>..... This is the part where you *try* to find me.

      Um. Yawn... "Hey, I'll appeal that!"

      "You ain't got no appeal!"

              bye ewe no hoo :)

Er... ah...    why would we wanna do that ?           ;-)

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=======================  Richards / K8JHR  =========================

On 7/17/2011 21:21, larynl2 wrote:

   This is the part where you *try* to find me.
>
______________________________________________________________________


,

That's pretty cold, Tom...            ;-)

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=======================  Anonymous / K8JHR  =========================

On 7/17/2011 21:36, K8TB wrote:

>       "You ain't got no appeal!"

>               bye ewe no hoo :)

>
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Yesterday, Sheila and I drove to Monroe County to participate in their
Fox Hunt.

Here are some notes I sent to Dale, WA8EFK:

It goes like this:

      The clock was ticking. It was Friday night, and Saturday loomed.
The front and back yards needed mowing, and my side of the garage had
way too much stuff in it, and it had to be cleaned. What to do?

      Diversion. I mentioned to Sheila, K8AJ and my wife, "Hey, remember
last year when we drove to Monroe and participated in that Fox Hunt?
Well, they have another one scheduled tomorrow". She looked at me and
said that the drive and the Fox Hunt sounded like a great deal. She
bought the diversion.

      So I set the alarm clock for 4:15 AM, Saturday morning. What was I
thinking? We were on the road at 5:30 am, climbing into a gas guzzling
Trail Blazer. Hey, it's only gas money.

      8:30 am found us at the Monroe County Red Cross. At first no one
else was there. But then, the hunters. They started showing up. One by
one. Hmmm. Competition. I the guise of acting friendly, I went up to the
other cars and introduced myself. But I was on a recon mission. Whew,
hey, we have some good equipment there. And two cars are using the
Google Hunt mapping program. Hey, this isn't going to be easy.

      At 9 am, the games stopped and the work began. An unfamiliar town
awaited Team Hudsonville. The signal was weak. Using the Icom HT, even
at the peak, the signal was not strong. But from the start, there was a
definite reading, with no multipath. This would not stay this way.
      Moving about a half a mile at a time, we scooted forward about 3
miles, and found ourselves in a commercial/residential area. Then the
signal turned bad. More multipath than signal. Around the corner, one
major reason stood out. Trains, and lots of them. Walking down past the
trains, we finally acquired a multipath free signal.
       This moved us west. No, wait, these streets are not east-west,
north-south, they are more like 220 degrees than 270! I made a few math
mistakes in adding up bearings with headings. This now pushed us to a
major intersection. Stopping at a KFC parking lot, we had a nice signal
straight down the road. But why are the cars driving by slowing down
when I point the 3 element beam at them? Hmmm.
       We went down the road only 2000 feet at a time. Suddenly, we were
in an older strip mall parking lot. The signal was much stronger, but
wow, multi-multi path. The reading also pointed to the 4 tower AM
directional array a few thousand feet away. Could it be? But yet, years
of Fox Hunting made me stop and smell the RF. Driving down to the end of
the strip mall turned out advantageous. I had a reading pointing
straight to the back end of the mall. We also spotted two people milling
about. Ah ha! Smiling, I drove down to them. Alas, just two innocent
people taking a break outside. I was getting ready to take a reading
from there. when I decided to pull to the back corner of the lot. As I
pulled up, I looked to my right, and here, tucked behind a commercial
truck, was the Fox. Smiling. Running one silly watt. Into a quarter
wave. Kinda directionalized away from the starting point. With the RF
slamming into the mall, just for the fun of it.
      The fox invited us to go around to "Benny's in the mall. A great ma
and pa restaurant. Any restaurant that serves breakfast all day has to
be a good restaurant. The other hunters joined us, and then it began.
What I refer to as the "EF" of Fox Hunting, and that is, the
Embellishment Factor. Would it be 0, 3, 6 or 9 Db? The stories were
great. The hospitality of this group was even better.

      Sheila and I would like to thank the MCRCA group for a great Fox
Hunt, some really serious competition and a wonderful time.

      Now, when are they going to drive to the Grand Rapids area?

      Sheila and Tom Bosscher, K8AJ and K8TB


      p.s., the garage is still a mess...

Rats...methinks I missed a good one!

Laryn K8TVZ

--- In MichiganFoxHunter@yahoogroups.com, K8TB <k8tb@...> wrote:
>
> Yesterday, Sheila and I drove to Monroe County to participate in their
> Fox Hunt.
>
> Here are some notes I sent to Dale, WA8EFK:
>
> It goes like this:
>
>      The clock was ticking. It was Friday night, and Saturday loomed.
> The front and back yards needed mowing, and my side of the garage had
> way too much stuff in it, and it had to be cleaned. What to do?
>
>      Diversion. I mentioned to Sheila, K8AJ and my wife, "Hey, remember
> last year when we drove to Monroe and participated in that Fox Hunt?
> Well, they have another one scheduled tomorrow". She looked at me and
> said that the drive and the Fox Hunt sounded like a great deal. She
> bought the diversion.
>
>      So I set the alarm clock for 4:15 AM, Saturday morning. What was I
> thinking? We were on the road at 5:30 am, climbing into a gas guzzling
> Trail Blazer. Hey, it's only gas money.
>
>      8:30 am found us at the Monroe County Red Cross. At first no one
> else was there. But then, the hunters. They started showing up. One by
> one. Hmmm. Competition. I the guise of acting friendly, I went up to the
> other cars and introduced myself. But I was on a recon mission. Whew,
> hey, we have some good equipment there. And two cars are using the
> Google Hunt mapping program. Hey, this isn't going to be easy.
>
>      At 9 am, the games stopped and the work began. An unfamiliar town
> awaited Team Hudsonville. The signal was weak. Using the Icom HT, even
> at the peak, the signal was not strong. But from the start, there was a
> definite reading, with no multipath. This would not stay this way.
>      Moving about a half a mile at a time, we scooted forward about 3
> miles, and found ourselves in a commercial/residential area. Then the
> signal turned bad. More multipath than signal. Around the corner, one
> major reason stood out. Trains, and lots of them. Walking down past the
> trains, we finally acquired a multipath free signal.
>       This moved us west. No, wait, these streets are not east-west,
> north-south, they are more like 220 degrees than 270! I made a few math
> mistakes in adding up bearings with headings. This now pushed us to a
> major intersection. Stopping at a KFC parking lot, we had a nice signal
> straight down the road. But why are the cars driving by slowing down
> when I point the 3 element beam at them? Hmmm.
>       We went down the road only 2000 feet at a time. Suddenly, we were
> in an older strip mall parking lot. The signal was much stronger, but
> wow, multi-multi path. The reading also pointed to the 4 tower AM
> directional array a few thousand feet away. Could it be? But yet, years
> of Fox Hunting made me stop and smell the RF. Driving down to the end of
> the strip mall turned out advantageous. I had a reading pointing
> straight to the back end of the mall. We also spotted two people milling
> about. Ah ha! Smiling, I drove down to them. Alas, just two innocent
> people taking a break outside. I was getting ready to take a reading
> from there. when I decided to pull to the back corner of the lot. As I
> pulled up, I looked to my right, and here, tucked behind a commercial
> truck, was the Fox. Smiling. Running one silly watt. Into a quarter
> wave. Kinda directionalized away from the starting point. With the RF
> slamming into the mall, just for the fun of it.
>      The fox invited us to go around to "Benny's in the mall. A great ma
> and pa restaurant. Any restaurant that serves breakfast all day has to
> be a good restaurant. The other hunters joined us, and then it began.
> What I refer to as the "EF" of Fox Hunting, and that is, the
> Embellishment Factor. Would it be 0, 3, 6 or 9 Db? The stories were
> great. The hospitality of this group was even better.
>
>      Sheila and I would like to thank the MCRCA group for a great Fox
> Hunt, some really serious competition and a wonderful time.
>
>      Now, when are they going to drive to the Grand Rapids area?
>
>      Sheila and Tom Bosscher, K8AJ and K8TB
>
>
>      p.s., the garage is still a mess...
>

On 7/24/2011 17:46, K8TB wrote:
She looked at me and
> said that the drive and the Fox Hunt sounded like a great deal. She
> bought the diversion.


		 YOU MEAN SHE DID NOT WANT TO MOW THE LAWN ...

   Could it be? But yet, years of Fox Hunting made me stop and smell the RF.


		 Are you sure that was the RF you were smelling ?



I looked to my right, and here, tucked behind a commercial
> truck, was the Fox. Smiling. Running one silly watt.


		 I take it you were the winner.... yes?


-----------------------------  Anonymous  / K8JHR ------------------------

Joe, K0OV hit another home with a nice article in the summer
edition of CQ VHF. Of note is a new very lower power (15 milliwatts)
transmitter from Byonics. Very cool. :
http://www.byonics.com/mf

      Who is going to get one first? :)

And while I don't see a web site yet, a couple of hams are making the
tape measure antennas using brackets formed from a 3-D printer, using
very cool florescent colors,  More information from marvin@...  I
will email him to get more information and post it here.

      73 de tom K8TB

I ordered one.

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=======================  Richards / K8JHR  =========================

On 8/7/2011 19:36, K8TB wrote:
>       Joe, K0OV hit another home with a nice article in the summer
> edition of CQ VHF. Of note is a new very lower power (15 milliwatts)
> transmitter from Byonics.

If you have ever read any article written by Dave Ingram, K4TWJ,
you know he is a very good and fun read. Dave is now a Silent Key, and
his family has released his last book to folks who would like to read
the book for themselves.

      This downloadable book is a 91 page, illustrated, all about keys.
Big ones, little ones, weird ones and cool ones.

      A great book to read, and for those who can't read, great pictures.

      Go to http://www.k4twj.com/books.htm

      and click on of the the two yellow "click here" for your choice of
a high or low resolution PDF.


          Looking at the pretty pictures, tom K8TB  :)

 

If you have ever read any article written by Dave Ingram, K4TWJ,
you know he is a very good and fun read. Dave is now a Silent Key, and
his family has released his last book to folks who would like to read
the book for themselves.

This downloadable book is a 91 page, illustrated, all about keys.
Big ones, little ones, weird ones and cool ones.

A great book to read, and for those who can't read, great pictures.

Go to http://www.k4twj.com/books.htm

and click on of the the two yellow "click here" for your choice of
a high or low resolution PDF.

Looking at the pretty pictures, tom K8TB :)

What happened to the summer?

   It is almost September and time for the Grand Rapids Amateur Radio
Association Annual Hamfest.

When?  Saturday, September 10th  -- Great location:  Easy to find, lots
of room!

Information site: http://www.w8dc.org

Hope to see you there!

Mike@...

As a generic question, what force, natural or man-made, can stop us from having
a hunt on Saturday August 27?

Laryn K8TVZ

The IRA is planning a work day that day, doing work on the main
GR repeater site.   I am already committed to doing that.  It came up
first.

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=======================  Richards / K8JHR  =========================

On 8/17/2011 09:24, larynl2 wrote:
> As a generic question, what force, natural or man-made, can stop us from
having a hunt on Saturday August 27?
>
>

I received an email from Larry, WB8R, who normally is a nice guy.
But I think he was taunting me in missing a great hunt. They had a very
nice turn out. Me thinks they need to see and hear Team Ottawa very soon.

      Anyway, look at the pictures on the link he supplied.

              tom K8TB

Hi Tom,

We has a great fox hunt this evening in Coldwater.
It was a collaborative hunt and it was completed in 40 minutes.
Then we reconvened at the DQ for ice cream n' tall tales.
We had 15 present, including the guys with the awesome truck with
the yagi in the back. They didn't win, tho..... Great weather,
great hunt and great company. What a night!

Here is a link to some pictures including some detail
of the truck installation. Enjoy!

73,

Larry, WB8R

https://skydrive.live.com/redir.aspx?cid=c6ae883672fafb3a&page=play&resid=C6AE88\
3672FAFB3A!247&authkey=KaiBWTneJbg%24

It would have been nice to know about that hunt.   I might have gone...
I would have gone to the one in Monroe if I had known about it in
advance... I was in Detroit that weekend already and my host would
have played along (he's an engineer) as my roadie.    Maybe we can
get those other outfits to get our group on their mailing list...

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=======================  Richards / K8JHR  =========================

On 8/17/2011 18:29, K8TB wrote:
>       I received an email from Larry, WB8R, who normally is a nice guy.
> But I think he was taunting me in missing a great hunt. They had a very
> nice turn out. Me thinks they need to see and hear Team Ottawa very soon.
>

 

As a generic question, what force, natural or man-made, can stop us from having a hunt on Saturday August 27?

Laryn K8TVZ

Awwwwwww well guess we had better change it...  I'll get back.

Laryn K8TVZ

--- In MichiganFoxHunter@yahoogroups.com, W8DER <mike@...> wrote:
>
> I am signed-up for Phil's Alzheimer's walk in the morning on the 27th.
> Phil is having trouble getting help, so I cannot let him down.  Unless
> it is later in the day, I will have to pass this time.
>
> Mike@...
>
>
> On 8/17/2011 9:24 AM, larynl2 wrote:
> >
> > As a generic question, what force, natural or man-made, can stop us
> > from having a hunt on Saturday August 27?
> >
> > Laryn K8TVZ
> >
> >
>

You are a good sport, L.

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=======================  Richards / K8JHR  =========================

On 8/19/2011 00:21, larynl2 wrote:
> Awwwwwww well guess we had better change it...  I'll get back.
>
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OK gang, how about Wednesday the 24th or 31st. I'd even be open to Saturday the
3rd. Trying to help y'all out here.....

Laryn K8TVZ

 

OK gang, how about Wednesday the 24th or 31st. I'd even be open to Saturday the 3rd. Trying to help y'all out here.....

Laryn K8TVZ