Fox Hunting Equipment
For her master’s coursework, Mary is taking a class on spatial data methodology. She wanted to do a radio direction finding final project, but since I haven’t done much with my ham radio license recently, this was a good chance to invest in some equipment:
![Adept Instruments T400P-6 fox hunting transmitter.](../images/2014-04-17-foxhunt/T400-6P1.gif)
It transmits using AM on the 70 cm band. Every 85 seconds it transmits my call sign (KDØGTK), and then it beeps every 1.3 seconds for 50 milliseconds.
![Cushcraft A270-6S Yagi antenna.](../images/2014-04-17-foxhunt/A270-6S.jpg)
This antenna is two 3-element Yagi antennas, one each for the 2 m and 70 cm bands. For now, we’ve only assembled the 70 cm antenna, but we’ll put together the rest before our next fox hunt, as it will use 2 m.
![Yaesu VX-3R handheld transceiver.](../images/2014-04-17-foxhunt/VX-3R.jpg)
I’ve used this handheld before, and have always been impressed with its durability, battery life, and receiver coverage.
I’ll tell you how the fox hunt went in a later post.