Assembling a Fox for Fox Hunting
Last week I was having a conversation with a friend about what there is to do in ham radio. One of the things that I always thought looked fun was fox hunting (otherwise known as radio direction finding). Since I tend to be a little spontaneous, I hopped onto the Byonics web site and made some orders. First into the cart was the PicCon Foxhunt Controller, I threw in the cables for programming and power, and an antenna too. Then I got to thinking how it would be fun to have a micro size fox so once you find the higher power one you have to get out on foot and really work to locate the other. So back I went and placed another order for a MicroFox. Cool unit, all self contained, so not much to say about the MicroFox yet. Will have to break that one in hunting. Finally everything showed up! I had a few of the needed items already, I had a dusty 6ah LifePo4 battery sitting around, like many people I have way too many Baofeng radios, and I also had ...