PEAK PUTTERS

Sitting around the dinner table with Isabel listening to the nightly ham radio "net" on the Spout Springs Repeater Association. Fun use for a Baofeng radio.

146.620

Every night starting at 7pm

She enjoys trying to log call signs. Phonetic spelling helps, but its tough to catch 'em all!

Special treat... Saturday you can hear yours truly in his full on nerdom, hosting said social net. Listen in and know that, yes, we are all this cool.

Lee made a successful "grocery store run" south of town in the snow today.

I wasn't able to go out and play, but was able to monitor him on ham and track him via APRS to make sure he was still moving along.

Lee this pic brings back good memories

Work made it un-possible for me to go on today's snow run , but because I was stuck in town I did get to go on a Fox Hunt .
To answer your questions...
A. Thread is called monitoring HAM radio?
If you had been monitoring the right frequency you might have hear some weird tones followed by some CW (Morse code.)
B. Fox Hunt?
The thing emitting the weird tones and CW (I know CW sounds like weird tones) was a 'FOX'. That is hidden transmitter. We use Yagi directional antennas and handy talkies (HTs) to find it.
i. More questions...
Exhibit (A)...

That is my Yagi directional antenna made out of a tape measure (yes a tape measure) and pcv pipe. About 8 bucks in parts, cheaper if I'd picked up the tape measure at Harbor Freight. The HT is my kinda high end Kenwood, but a Baofeng would have been just as effective. almost
C. Lee, you know this is a wheeling forum?
Yes, you see some on hides the transmitter. We gotta go find it. We drive to it. If someone were to hide it somewhere we find interesting...
Point is there is some interest in the SSRA (my HAM club) in getting the Peak Putters (our wheelin' club) to team up and maybe have the 4x4 operators to take the HAM operators on the search. Think somewhere in the Blues, or Juniper, or...
Nothing in the works; just the seed of a thought. We have to get to something like normal times to make it feasible, but some of us think it sounds like a blast. And get this, we have a traveling trophy that the winner keeps until the next hunt. Sound familiar?