{"id":1329,"date":"2022-11-02T07:41:30","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T11:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bcra.club\/bcrawprel\/?p=1329"},"modified":"2022-11-02T07:41:31","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T11:41:31","slug":"bcra-fox-hunt-november-5-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bcra.club\/bcrawprel\/2022\/11\/02\/bcra-fox-hunt-november-5-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"BCRA Fox Hunt &#8212; November 5, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>When:<\/strong><br>11\/05\/2022<br>2:00pm to 2:00pm<br>(UTC-04:00) America\/New York<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Where:<\/strong><br>5 &#8211; mile radius from 823 State Road, Dartmouth, MA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Organizer:<\/strong> Skip Denault <a href=\"mailto:kb1cnb@...?subject=Re:%20Event:%20BCRA%20Fox%20Hunt%20--%20November%205%2C%202022\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">kb1cnb@&#8230;<\/a> <a href=\"tel:\/\/774-644-3469\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">774-644-3469<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Description:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next BCRA Fox Hunt has been scheduled!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-bristol-county-repeater-association wp-block-embed-bristol-county-repeater-association\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"W3dHhRFJb3\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bcra.club\/bcrawprel\/fox-hunting\/\">Fox Hunting &#8212; June 15th, August 3rd, September 21st and November 16th 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Fox Hunting &#8212; June 15th, August 3rd, September 21st and November 16th 2024&#8221; &#8212; Bristol County Repeater Association\" src=\"https:\/\/bcra.club\/bcrawprel\/fox-hunting\/embed\/#?secret=NRUyy5G4Fa#?secret=W3dHhRFJb3\" data-secret=\"W3dHhRFJb3\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Saturday, November 5, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NOTICE NEW DETAILS BELOW WITH A NEW CHALLENGE! &#8212;&nbsp; The radius is only 5 miles from the center point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* Time: 10:00 am to 2:00 pm&nbsp; &#8212; check-in starts at&nbsp;<strong>9:45 am on the BCRA repeater, 145.150 MHz PL 123<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* Location: The Foxes will be located within a&nbsp;<strong>5 &#8211; mile radius from 823 State Road, Dartmouth, MA.&nbsp; The intersection of Reed Rd and Route 6 Dartmouth MA<br><\/strong><br>&nbsp;(41.6384678, -71.0361075).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* Fox1 will activate at 10:00 am on 146.565 MHz FM&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp; Fox2 will activate at 10:02:30 on 146.430 MHz FM&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Communications with \u201cFox Control\u201d can all be done over the BCRA repeater, including checking in when you have found the fox. You may also speak with us in the control vehicle using physical distancing if you wish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There will be TWO foxes \u2013 one manned by KB1CNB, Skip, and one by N1KJS, Kevin. When you find one of the foxes, you will get a hint to help you find the second (if you want!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check-ins will begin at 9:45 am on the&nbsp;<strong>BCRA repeater, 145.150 MHz PL 123<\/strong>. Chat and help on the repeater also.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Fox1 will activate at 10:00 am on 146.565 MHz FM, and Fox2 at 10:02:30 on 146.430 MHz FM with a 5-watt signal, and both will transmit 1 minute of tone followed by Morse Code ID and 4 minutes of silence. As the hunt progresses we may increase the transmission times \u2013 that will be announced on the BCRA repeater. The hunt will last until 2:30 pm or until all checked-in participants have found the transmitters, whichever comes first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Foxes will be located within a&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>5 &#8211; mile radius from 823 State Road, Dartmouth AM.&nbsp; (<\/strong>41\u00b038&#8217;18.5&#8243;N 71\u00b002&#8217;10.0&#8243;W).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Fox1 (in Skip&#8217;s vehicle, a blue\/grey Jeep Commander marked BCRA) will be in a public place and be manned at all times. When you have found the fox, your time and order of arrival will be recorded, and a personalized certificate will be emailed to each participant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Fox2 (in Kevin&#8217;s vehicle, a blue Toyota Tacoma marked BCRA) will be in a public place and be manned at all times.&nbsp;When you have found the fox, your time and order of arrival will be recorded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Participants are encouraged to work in teams and are asked to drive carefully and observe all applicable guidelines, both from the FCC and the state &amp; local governments. Since participants are receiving only (except for radio check-ins), an amateur radio license is not required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Email questions to Skip at kb1cnb@&#8230; or text to 774-644-3469. After the hunt, your comments, impressions, and suggestions will be welcome!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Join us and have some good amateur radio fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When:11\/05\/20222:00pm to 2:00pm(UTC-04:00) America\/New York Where:5 &#8211; mile radius from 823 State Road, Dartmouth, MA Organizer: Skip Denault kb1cnb@&#8230; 774-644-3469&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcra.club\/bcrawprel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcra.club\/bcrawprel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcra.club\/bcrawprel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcra.club\/bcrawprel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcra.club\/bcrawprel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bcra.club\/bcrawprel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1330,"href":"https:\/\/bcra.club\/bcrawprel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329\/revisions\/1330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcra.club\/bcrawprel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcra.club\/bcrawprel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcra.club\/bcrawprel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcra.club\/bcrawprel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}