How to Transmitter Hunt

Last update on: Saturday, October 01, 2005

We currently have 115 hunters.
Each hunter will be asked to provide a list of equipment he or she uses to t-hunt and will be given their own web page listing their personal favorites.

I will compile a list of the most commonly used tools and why it helps them hunt.

Click here to see:
[Equipment by Individual]

Please submit your list of T-Hunting equipment to:
jim@thunt.org

Draft

1) Check 'Schedule of Hunts' web page. Verify the date/time/location and talk-in frequency.
2) Check the 'Equipment' web page. Get some idea's on what equipment you have or can borrow.
   A) At a minimum, you'll need one receiver capable of tuning in the hidden transmitter frequency.
   B) Map of the hunt area. Compass, protractor and pencil.
   C) 2-meter beam would be nice.
   D) Paper clip.
3) Get to the start point.
4) When the fox begins transmitting, get a bearing with your receiver, body-fade or with your beam.
5) Plot the bearing on your map.
6) Drive a few miles along the bearing you drew on your map.
7) Park your car in a legal and safe place, take another bearing. Plot this bearing on your map.
8) Drive a few more miles and take another bearing. Item (6 & 7) above.
9) When you begin hearing the hidden transmitter on your receiver, your getting close.
10) Take more bearings. Items (6 & 7).
11) Take the antenna off your receiver. If you begin hearing the hidden transmitter without an antenna, you are probably within walking distance of it.
12) Park your car and body-fade to the hidden transmitter.
TIP: Body-fade using the receiver's antenna close to your body. When the signal becomes full scale, replace your antenna with the paper clip. When that becomes full scale, take the paper clip out, using no antenna at all.

Some RULES I have learned while transmitter hunting.
1) Follow your initial bearing.
2) Get back on, your initial bearing.
3) Trust your equipment.
4) Check your immediate options before committing to a new direction and Once you commit to any direction, don't change your mind until your prove it incorrect. I think 5-miles might be a good number to use when proving out a committed direction. You don't want to return to the area you just came from.
5) In the mountains, have your navigator continuously look at your Doppler display. If you get your Doppler pointer to point and stick at a single location while moving for 3 or more seconds (5 is better), you probably have a good bearing. Otherwise ignore the reading.

Use 446.000 Mhz Simplex, if you can't use or don't know the talk-in frequency.
Typical FOX Frequencies	3rd Harmonic
144.060 MHz (10-mw)	432.180 MHz
146.310 MHz (10-mw)	438.930 MHz
146.415 MHz (Primary)	439.245 MHz
146.445 MHz (Rarely Used)	439.335 MHz
146.490 MHz (Secondary)	439.470 MHz
146.535 MHz (Stockton)	439.605 MHz
146.565 MHz (National)	439.695 MHz
146.800 MHz (10-mw)	440.400 MHz
147.435 MHz (10-mw)	442.305 MHz
147.455 MHz (Stockton)	442.365 MHz

How to Transmitter Hunt

Last update on: Saturday, October 01, 2005

We currently have 115 hunters. Each hunter will be asked to provide a list of equipment he or she uses to t-hunt and will be given their own web page listing their personal favorites.

I will compile a list of the most commonly used tools and why it helps them hunt.

Click here to see: [Equipment by Individual]

Common Talk-In Frequencies

We currently have 115 hunters.
Each hunter will be asked to provide a list of equipment he or she uses to t-hunt and will be given their own web page listing their personal favorites.

Click here to see:
[Equipment by Individual]