[ARDF] MMRA Saturday morning foxhunt results (September 19, 2009)

[Tim Shepard]

On September 19, 2009, the MMRA Saturday morning foxhunt was held
on the input (146.19) to the Weston 146.79 repeater.

Tim KD1KY was the fox and made 3 bonus transmissions before the
official 10am start time.  The bonus transmissions around 9:40am
and 9:45am were made while westbound on Route 9 in Newton.  The
9:55am bonus transmission was from the fox hiding location.
Starting at 10:00am, 30-second long transmissions were made
every 5 minutes.

The fox was located near the end of Riverside Road in Newton,
parked in one of the parking slots next to the park.  

Riverside Road is about 4 miles SE of the repeater site and is
not shown on some maps.  It is a short dead-end road, only
about 300 feet long, running parallel to and just south of the
Mass Pike.  It connects to Charles Street to the east, and dead
ends near the Charles River.  It is about a quarter mile east
of Route 128.  It can only be reached by car by passing through
the Charles Street tunnel underneath the Mass Pike.

Transmissions from Riverside Road were made using only 0.5W into
a mag-mount antenna on the car.  The two earlier transmissions
while traveling on Route 9 were made with higher power (perhaps 20W).

The fox was first found at 12:06pm by Briggs AB2NJ and Dick WB1W.

Next to find the fox was Charles AA1VS at 12:11pm.

And then Alan N1TBN and Mike N1OMJ arrived at 12:12pm.

Jonathan KB1SDS and Jonathan KC6F arrived at 12:25pm.

At 12:30pm the fox announced the location and the hunt ended.

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I believe Dick WB1W has some photos that he will hopefully
send along so that they can be added to the MMRA web site.

By tradition, Brigs AB2NJ and/or Dick WB1W may (if willing)
schedule the next hunt and "be the fox".  If you aren't
going to be doing that in the next few weeks, let us all
know so perhaps we can find someone else to be the fox and
keep these going more a little more frequently before the
winter arrives.

   73 de KD1KY

			-Tim Shepard
			 shep at alum.mit.edu