Foxhunt Archive: Before 2023
Before the 2023-2024 School Year
These entries were preserved from club publications in the original words of each author.
Last foxhunt of Fall 2015 semester. We tested our self designed 80 meter transmitter with April's antenna with 12V power supply. The propagating radius is about 200 meter which is quite impressive.
First foxhunt of Fall 2015 semester. We tested 80 meter transmitter and receiver that Yucheng KG5GDV brought back from China. It was indeed a successful event. We hid and located several hidden transmitters - both 2 meter and 80 meter.
Last Foxhunt of Spring Semester. Dave(W5QZ) made new fox! We run some experiments instead of foxhunting. Having a new fox is really great!
We had our foxhunt again from 4:00-6:00 in the afternoon.
Today we encountered a visitor, Therese KD5HDR who's job is doing a foxhunt to track a tagged animal.
There were three separate foxhunts in total. each time takes less than 15 mins. It seems that our club members become better at foxhunting.
We had a big group of people attending our foxhunt today. Whoop!
A back-to-back group of hunts the day after snow was on the ground in BCS, with hides at Hensel Park. Read the full story →
A fun, two-transmitter hunt in Bryan with great weather. Read the full story →
This foxhunt was cancelled after a power outage on campus earlier in the day.
The weather was nice and cool for the teams on this hunt. Kevin hid this fox in a location with several reflections, relatively close to the EOC. KZ5M maintained his reputation of getting there very quickly.
This was the first of our 2nd-Sunday-of-the-month series of hunts. Several teams participated, finding the first fox near powerlines and just out of plain view, and the second in a poorly-mapped area of town.
Beautiful but humid weather marked this two-fox hunt. Unfortunately, there were only two hunters. Our new huntmaster doesn't hide foxes on really busy streets... but Mike B. didn't think about that at first. Look forward to even more interesting future dual-fox hunts.
We originally planned to have fun after our work meeting by running a foxhunt this day, but due mostly to time constraints, we decided to forgo the hunt after the post-meeting lunch.
Foxhunt #2 for the week also cancelled due to more bad weather rolling through Texas.
Foxhunt cancelled due to approaching bad weather and the possibility that W5AC might be activated with Skywarn or TAMMSSDA.
This was a Sunday afternoon foxhunt. One team found that recent rain does indeed make the ground softer... as a result, vehicles get stuck in this stuff they call "mud." After being pulled out by some very friendly passers-by, they found the fox rather quickly.
Two Saturday afternoon foxhunts separated by a late lunch. This day marked the beginning of really sneaky on-foot hiding places for the fox, rather than the (equally challenging) roadside foxhunts before it. The first hunt ended in the forests of Bee Creek Park. The second hunt... let's just call it "the decoy hunt" - thanks to the creative thinking of KD5VVZ.
Lance Cotton, KJ5O, built a fox for us. Ramiro KD5MMJ, Gabe KC5OED, and Mike KZ5M took only 54 minutes to locate the transmitter in Central Park from the start position at the College Station Fire Station. It was frustrating as the signal kept reflecting off the Aparment buildings near Wolf Creek Park, but both groups found it within minutes of each other.
We know from old records that W5AC held a transmitter hunt this December - we love our traditions! The "fox" was hidden near the power plant in Bryan (which today would be out of bounds). A non-licensed foxhunter found the fox first on this day.