Mobile T-hunting (also called foxhunting and bunny-hunting) can help police the ham bands, save lives, and be just plain fun. On-foot radio-orienteering (also called foxhunting and ARDF) is becoming a world-wide sport. If you've never been out on a transmitter hunt, you've missed some real excitement. Getting started can be easy and fast. You may have almost everything you need right now! This book will help you with equipment choices and teach you the right techniques.
Partial list of topics:
- Using Yagi antennas for RDF
- Building and using VHF quad antennas
- Reviews of commercial dopplers
- Plans for the Roanoke Doppler
- Marine RDF equipment
- Loops for HF and VHF
- External S-meters
- Audible S-meters
- Review of the Little L-Per RDF
- Plans for the Happy Flyers RDF
- Review of the BMG SuperDF
- Equipment takealong lists
- Maps and triangulation
- Cooperative hunting
- External attenuators, with circuits
- Internal attenuators, with circuits
- Plans for an automatic attenuator
- Vehicle mountings
- Direction indicators for masts
- Search/Rescue agencies
- Interferometer techniques
- Airborne hunting techniques
- Weak signal techniques
- Close-in sniffing techniques
- Build the Shrunken Quad for sniffing
- Build the Sniff-Amp field strength meter for sniffing
- International-rules on-foot foxhunting
- Creating rules for mobile hunts
- Hiding tricks to foil hunters
- Build tone/ID boxes for hiding
- Adcock RDFs
- Fixed site RDFing
- RDFing from satellites
- Tracking down cable TV leakage
- Tracking down power line noise
- Commercial/military RDF sets
- Computerized triangulation
- Dealing with jamming and malicious interference
TRANSMITTER HUNTING --- Radio Direction Finding Simplified (THRDFS) is easy to read with plenty of clear photos and drawings. Hams, SWLs, and users of 2-way radio technology (public safety, industrial, government, business) will all find it valuable. Search and Rescue volunteers and professionals are using it as a training manual.
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