Serving ARRL members who reside in the New England sections
The Wireless Society of Southern Maine is sponsoring the Maine QSO Party to “encourage Maine stations to expand their knowledge of DX propagation on the HF and MF bands, improve their operating skills, and improve station capability by creating a competition in which W/VE, and DX stations have the incentive to work Maine.”
Contest Period: 1200 UTC Saturday, September 24 to 1200 UTC Sunday, September 25, 2022.
Full details can be found at http://www.ws1sm.com/MEQP.html.
Once someone has been able to bring it up and hear it, please report that information to the other fox hunters. Feel free to reply to the group. Do not reveal its location, just a location (and direction if possible) from which you are able to hear it. This then becomes a starting point for the other fox hunters to use.
You do not actually have to touch the box to claim finding it. Eye ball contact is sufficient. It is located less than 500 feet from a safe parking location.
Good luck,
Larry Banks, W1DYJ, writes:
The results of the CW WPX SSB contest were just published. Congratulations to Marty, NN1C; he operated from KC1XX in the Single Operator All Band High Power category: a score of 15,170,455. Here are his “places”:
To quote the article in CQ magazine: “In addition to achieving the top SO HP score in the USA, contest prodigy NN1C — using the call KC1XX — dominated the youth overlay.
73 / Larry / W1DYJ
Larry Krainson, W1AST, writes:I had ordered 1,000 cards and hoped that it would be enough this year. The team made 21,373 QSOs this year—over 6,000 more than in 2021. That made us think we’d have many more QSL requests this year.
Mark Noe, KE1IU, writes on the ctfoxhunter list:
Mark Noe, KE1IU, writes on the ctfoxhunter list:
SECARS will be sponsoring a foxhunt Sunday, September 4 at 1 PM – with a rain date of Monday, September 5 at 1 PM. We will be at the Preston Community Park – (10 Lincoln Park Rd Ext, Preston, CT 06365 – Hike the Trail — Tri Town Trail Association).
This will be an on-foot foxhunt. We will have 6 fox boxes running. Frequencies are listed on the SECARS website – we will be running foxes C, H, I, J, K at https://secars.org/foxhunting/. The additional fox frequency for the 6th box will be added later this week, so look for another announcement with the parameters for Fox L. Please let me know if you need any additional information. Talk in will be available on 146.730 MHz PL 156.7 Hz. I look forward to seeing you there!
Many thanks,
Mark Noe KE1IU
Shawn Takatsu, NR1T, writes on the Greater Bridgeport ARC mailing list:
Tomorrow [August 21, 2022] at 10 am we’re hosting our monthly fox hunt by Shawn, NR1T.
As always, all are welcome to join in the fox hunt, both members and non-members as well as non-licensed operators as you don’t need to transmit to direction find.
The recommended starting areas are the park and ride off route 15, exit 46 and the Stop and Shop in Newtown on route 25.
Details can be found here: Foxhunt Details
If you have never ‘hunted a fox’ before and would like to team up, please reach out to me and I’ll find someone you can team with.
We look forward to seeing you at the fox!
Many thanks to Mark (K8LSB) who shares the following announcement: Sharing POTA/SOTA with the Public Greetings POTA/SOTA activators, This year the Big E (exposition)—a “combined” state fair for the six New England states (CT MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)—will run for 17 days: from September 16 to October 2. In the past, 1.5 million people […]
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Rob Cichon, K1RCT, writes on the ctfoxhunter list August 6, 2022:
Starting at 09:45 in Wallingford (I have a meeting earlier).
1FIAB, a 1W beacon on 145.7
2FIAB, 700mW DTMF-1 controlled-on, 145.605
3FIAB, a 12mW beacon on 145.3
4FIAB, a 1W DTMF-1 controlled-on, 145.2
The Fox Boxes will cease transmission at 11:15.
Hints may be available on 146.36-r, 162.2 PL.
A smart hunter should always listen for the Fox even though it’s earlier or later than the proscribed hour.
73,
de Rob, K1RCT