May fox hides at ball diamond

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foxhunt cartoonThe May foxhunt occurred on Sunday the 5th of May, which turned out to be a beautiful spring day in Indiana, temperatures in the high 60’s and a blue sky. Wow!

There were three hunter teams for this one. The first consisted of Jim & Annie Pliett, K9OMA and KA9YYI, plus Carole and Al Burke, WB9’s RUS & SSE. The second team included Steve and Linda Nardin, W9’s SAN & LAN plus their grandson Alex (who was celebrating his 21st birthday). And the third team included Don Glick, K9LI and his wife Julie plus her dad Ed.

Charles Ward, KC9MUT and Phil Hooper, AB9IZ served as the fox for this hunt. They ensconced themselves near the ball diamonds at Rockhill Park in west central Ft. Wayne. They attached a magnet to the microfox and affixed it near the bottom of a steel fencepost that bordered a tree line in the park. It emitted about 40 milliwatts of cw for one minute every two and one half minutes on the 146.430 MHz fox frequency. For the high power fox they used a yagi up about 20’ and driven by Charles’s mobile transceiver with the yagi pointed at some high tension lines. As usual the high power fox transmitted for one minute every five minutes.

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Website updated from present through 2015, some data remains temporarily unavailable

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In May of 2019, we migrated the FWRC website from a very outdated version of the Joomla content management system (CMS) to an up-to-date version of WordPress CMS.

No data was last in the process, but some data will be unavailable via the new CMS for a while.

For example, we are gradually re-installing the various photo galleries, starting with the newest and working our way back to the oldest. As of December, 2019, we had restored galleries as old as 2015.

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