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

[Larry Banks]

Thanks Tim,

Please send any pictures to me also -- so I can include them in the next 
MMRA Newsletter.

73 -- Larry -- W1DYJ


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim Shepard" <shep at alum.mit.edu>
To: "Joe Moell" <Homingin at aol.com>; "Nathaniel Vishner" <kb1qhx at gmail.com>; 
"Richard MacPherson" <wb1w at arrl.net>; "Boston-ARDFers" <ardf at kkn.net>; 
"N1BE-MMRA" <n1be at mmra.org>; "Clark Conti" <n1nvk at mmra.org>; "Larry Banks" 
<w1dyj at mmra.org>; "K1KWP-MMRA" <k1kwp at mmra.org>; "Mark Diggins" 
<vk3md1 at gmail.com>; "Barry Fox" <foxbw at comcast.net>; <MMRA at yahoogroups.com>; 
"Alan Marchioni" <amarchioni at gmail.com>; "Michael Rawding" 
<kb1pup at nsra.org>; "BRUCE HAYDEN" <bruceni1x at verizon.net>; "Kevin Paetzold" 
<kevin.paetzold at gmail.com>; "Tom Charbonneau" <tcharbon at verizon.net>; "MMRA 
Board" <board at mmra.org>; "Bill Noyce" <ab1av at arrl.net>; "Mike Giovannucci" 
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Schwartz" <n1zce at arrl.net>; "Steve Stutman" <steve at radiorobots.com>; "Alex 
Svirsky" <as at shawsheen.com>; "Tim Shepard" <shep at alum.mit.edu>; "John 
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<jlmorse at mit.edu>; "Jonathan Cox" <joncox at mit.edu>
Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2009 7:01 PM
Subject: MMRA Saturday morning foxhunt results (September 19, 2009)


>
>
> 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.
>
> - - -  - - -  - - -  - - -  - - -  - - -  - - -  - - -  - - -
>
> 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
>