This will be a hunt-at-your-own pace event. Here are the details:

Live foxhunt log

  • Fox can be heard from Baptist Hospital WLR parking lot
  • The fox will be placed on Sunday…hopefully by 1PM. I will add my entry to the log linked above once it has been placed.
  • It will be inside the city limits of Little Rock in a place accessible to the public. Please don’t tresspass on private property looking for it. I will give a little better detail tomorrow including a specific place from where you could start and definitely hear it.
  • You will be able to drive to the fox and hopefully see the sign / scan the QR code from the car. I’m not intending to require a hike in this heat.
  • The fox will be transmitting on 432.5 MHz. It will transmit the follwoing in CW in a loop that cycles about every minute: R 5 times, AE5AU, 6 second tone.
  • The is FM moduled CW. You can hear it on any FM radio.

The fox for this hunt is a radiosonde that was been to near space thanks to the National Weather Service. It flew out of the North Little Rock office and I tracked it to southwest Little Rock where it landed in a tree next to the road. It has been reflashed with an open source firmware to move it from the original 400-406 MHz band to the 70cm amateur band. The firmware also gives it many other features and modes. Not bad for free (other than the time and fuel to track it down)!

73 and best of luck in the hunt! Luke - AE5AU