Monday July 27th sees our Trophy radio direction finding ‘foxhunt’ competition where team Tornado (last years winners) will hide up somewhere in Norfolk and transmit radio messages on 2m for 1 minute every 5 minutes. The hunters have to find them using direction finding receivers (some home made and some commercial) and the winning team is the one who finds them in the shortest car mileage!
The competition starts from Thorpe Recreation Ground at Laundry Lane, Norwich, NR7 0XQ on Monday from 1845 where you can see teams setting up and testing their gear before they take their bearings on the first transmission at 19.30. This is for the NARC Foxhunt Trophy so its bound to be as cunning as a Fox…
We have a few basic rules for safety, the main ones being there must be minimum of 2 people per team in each car with at least one person who is a NARC member, has a charged mobile phone and the car needs to have a milometer which ideally shows 0.1 mile increments in case its a close finish.
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David G7URP
DF hunt organiser for NARC