Sat, 16 May, 2009

Results of the 2009 Victorian Fox hunt Championships

Description	Operator	Location	Notes	VK3YQN	VK3BLN	VK3OW
				TIME	POINTS	TIME	POINTS	TIME	POINTS
10M Hunt 28.335MHz	VK3CHR	Mount Ridley 387 A1.	Hint North West from start	40Min	3	50	1	49	2
6M Hunt 52.1MHz	VK3WZ	Jingles Road Humevale 37:30:34S 145:10:28E	Hint West  East# from 10M Start on SSB then switch to FM		2		3		1
HF/MF Hunt 3.585MHz 1.825MHz	VK3JDO VK3VT	Eden Park. Kangaroo Ground Tower 271 G10	East West# from 6M South East from 80M Afternoon tea after this.	54 62	2 1	73 43*	1 3*	54 52	3 2
2M Two legs 145.7MHz 144.247MHz	VK3FFLY VK3CHR	Wonga Park 279 B4 Pound Bend 23 C10	ESE of 160M WSW of 1st Leg		3 3	+18MIN	– 2		2 –
Night Hunt 145.7MHz, 439.050MHz 52.1MHz, 28.335MHz, 144.247MHz	VK3FFLY VK3JDO VK3WZ VK3CHR VK3VT/FFLY	Tower 12 K8 Knowle 185 H8 Goldman’s 264B2 Braemore place Koora Crt 20K7	North East of start North of 1st Leg East of 2nd Leg  (Water tank) North West of 3rd Leg South	29 14 20 41 40	2 2** 3 3 2	28 12 25 54 39	3 3 2 1 3	32 14 27 42	1 2** 1 2 –
Final Score				1st	26	2nd	22	3rd	16

 Notes

# Indicates where organiser had put in the wrong (180deg out) clues, thanks to all those that took the time to bring this mistake to our attention.

* BLN hunted on 52.1 as their 160M loop was not operational so OW could argue about this result (probably successfully if accompanied by money!)

** Same leg time – 2 points each

Many, many thanks to those that assisted in the organising and running the event; they include:

• Operators and co-conspiritors – Doug VK3JDO, Chris VK3CHR, Ian VK3FFLY and Wal VK3WZ
• Food preparation and serving –  Sandra and Denise & Ian VK3MZ for collecting food
• Equipment loan from Ewen VK3OW
• The three teams that participated and made the effort worthwhile