[SESprint] Announcement: QRP Fox Hunt Tonight (Thursday)

[John Laney]

Hello everyone:

Here is my QRP Fox Hunt announcement for tonight, Thursday, January 5, 
2017 local time.  I am sending it to a wide distribution in the hope 
that more people capable of QRP operation may join in the fun.  We have 
these on 80M on Thursdays and 40M on Tuesdays in the Fall, Winter, and 
Sprint and on 20M weekly in the late summer and early fall.  All 
information can be found on the QRP Fox Hunt Home Page, which can be 
found easily by an internet search.

Tonight, between 3550 and 3570 kHz (always ten up and ten down from the 
suggested QRP calling frequencies in North America), two QRP Foxes will 
be QRV, myself, K4BAI, JOHN, GA and WC7S, DALE, WY.  The exchange is 
RST, SPC (State/Province/Country) and Power.  You may run no more than 
5W.  Work only the two foxes each session and do not spot them on any 
internet page.  At the start of each season of the Fall/Winter/Spring 
hunts, team of up to five members may be registered.  There have been 
two all-Georgia fox hunt teams the past two seasons.

The foxes are to run 5W and they usually start out calling and listening 
split, most often UP.  They will indicate listening split by sending 
"UP" or "DN" at the end of each CQ or QRZ.  After the pileup goes down, 
most foxes will listen simplex for the remainder of the hunt.  The foxes 
publish a preliminary log on the QFox Reflector so hounds can advise of 
any typos in the log and they then finalize the log for the same reflector.

These hunts are a lot of fun both for the hounds and for the foxes, but, 
obviously more so for the foxes if the foxes like to "run" stations. 
Volunteers to be foxes are solicited on the QFox reflector before each 
season.  So, please give it a try and see if you don't really like it. 
You will be amazed at what you can do with 5W or less.  The best (and 
luckiest) foxes can work more than 100 hounds in one 90-minute session.

All sessions are held between 9 PM and 10:30 PM Eastern Time, which 
translates right now into 0200-0330 UTC time.

73, John, K4BAI.