thanks for a fun night out. It seemed everything went well and from what I heard it was a record turnout. Well, a record from the current attendance figures. 8 teams plus the Fox.
Over the past few months I have been liaising with Espen Bjerke Larsen who has been the correspondence contact for the Golden Goal Crew. Espen mentioned a few times he would have love to come with the crew but not this time. Also he mentioned that we will get on with the crew very well and they are a great bunch of guys. I am sure you will all agree on that one. You may remember that the show concentrates on the humorous and different side of all sports. You will be pleased to know that I will probably get a special mention for leaving TX 1 at Willsmere and only realising when a got to Doncaster Road on the Eastern Freeway. By the time I returned for it and arrived at the next location we only had minutes to spare. I could blame it on my current situation but  think you all know me too well and will see right through that one.
Johan had a great time giving Henrik heaps and I am sure he will hang it on him for some time yet. I spoke to one of the cameramen about his run up from Yarra Blvd to the fox on hunt 1 and he mentioned that hunt 2 was worse I am sure even with the jet-lag he will sleep well tonight.
I feel sorry for the crew, today they are off to Williamstown Life Saving Club to have a go at Surf Lifesaving. I wish I had have known earlier for as some of you know I was a lifesaver for a long time. Williamstown is not a good example of that sport. I expect they will have a great time there doing an IRB (Rubber Duck) rescue. And, if Henrik can work it Johan will be the patient and let him freeze in Port Phillip Bay for awhile.
Before I get onto the scores I would like to thank the EMDRC for allowing us to use the clubrooms for the BBQ and those members that assisted in getting things ready for you guys. When I arrived at the club there were so many cars there it looked like a regular meeting was on. Thank guys.

Now the scores:

Team	Hunt 1	Hunt 2	Hunt 3	Hunt 4	Score
VK3TXO	0	0	4	0	4
VK3MZ	1	1	4	10	16
VK3YQN	3	7	1	2	13
VK3FVXN	4	10	10	10	34
VK3FOX	5	1	10	3	19
VK3BLN	6	1	0	9	16
VK3FAST	7	7	4	7	26
VK3OW	10	1	1	9	21

Cheers, Jack.

Here are the results if the November hunt held on Friday 19th November 2010

Seven teams turned out for this event on a beautiful evening for foxhunting the weather was perfect.  Scoring was the usual 10 minute rule.

The first hunt was in Bundoora and most of the hounds found it reasonably quickly with VK3YQN leading the pack. The VK3BLN team did have some problems and did not trouble the scorer.

Second hunt found Ian VK3FFLY riding his bike down the Plenty River bike path and this proved to be a difficult fox to catch Once again VK3YQN was first in followed by VK3FAST, VK3TXO and VK3OW.  VK3BLN, VK3MZ and VK3FVXN did not trouble the scorer on this event.

The third and final hunt of the evening was located in Yandell Reserve, not far from the supper location and very close to the home of Ewen VK3OW, who happened to be first in; all the other hounds found this fox within the 10 minutes. This hunt was conducted on 2M and 70CM.

After the third hunt it was decided to end the evening and the hounds gathered at the home of Greg VK3VT for supper of prawns, sandwiches, sausages rolls, roast chicken wings, cakes,  fruit, tea, coffee and a selection of cordials. The following results were announced and some discussion was held on running 70CM hunts seriously, rather than as dual bands.  No consensus was forthcoming. Most of the teams were on their way home by 11:30 pm and all were gone before the bewitching hour.

Many thanks to Mike VK3KMJ, Ian VK3FFLY and Kristian for assisting with the running of this hunt and to Kate for assisting with supper.

Team	Hunt 1	Hunt 2	Hunt 3	Place
VK3YQN	0	0	0	6	6	1
VK3FAST	1	6	7	1	8	2
VK3OW	3	9	12	0	12	3
VK3MZ	1	10	11	3	14	=4
VK3TXO	1	9	10	4	14	=4
VK3FVXN	2	10	12	8	20	5
VK3BLN	10	10	20	1	21	6

This result shows that Bruce’s super powers have not been affected by his trip to Croatia and that he and Subi are a formidable team.

The December hunt will be held on Friday 10th December and the fox will be Jack VK3WWW.  This hunt will have a couple of presenters and a film crew from Norway along for the ride with two teams and looks like it might be a real spectacle. Stay tuned to this list for more exciting details.


73
Greg VK3VT

VK3TXO: 0, 0, 3, 4, 6, 1 = 14 (1st)
VK3BLN: 10, 3, 0, 3, 5, 0 = 21 (2nd)
VK3YQN: 10, 10, 2, 0, 3, 4 = 29 (3rd)
VK3MZ: 10, 4, 2, 7, 0, 10 = 33
VK3OW: 9, 8, 3, 8, 9, 10 = 47
VK3FOX: 10, 7, 4, 8, 10, 10 = 49

   Here is the report for the May Foxhunt.

        Five teams of hounds were greeted by a crisp and clear Autumn evening, as they gathered at the traditional start location in Lytton Street Carlton.  Ian VK3MZ and Roger VK3HRL placed seven 2m foxes in a rough line eastward-ish from Carlton to Donvale.  All teams reported plenty of signal, even with beams on backwards or with elements broken off by agressive trees.

        Hunt 1:
                Ian placed the fox in a laneway running north of Rowe Street North Fitzroy, about three km from the start as the crow flies.  First in was VK3YQN, followed quickly by OW, later by BLN.  FVXN and TXO both missed the switch-off time – in TXO’s case the beam was found to be on backwards (about 15 km away based on scratchiness of comms).

        Hunt 2:
                Roger placed the Gaffer Tape Special on a steep grassy embankment at the south end of East Street Westgarth, about 1.5 km from hunt 1 as flown by a husk-gripping swallow (African or European?).  The first hounds were in the area within five minutes of switch-on.  VK3BLN (Marta) was in first, followed immediately by Josh VK3HGI of the TXO team (apparently with better beam orientation).  OW arrive several minutes later, followed eventually by FVXN.  YQN missed out, with excited runners on the wrong side of the river or maybe not the wrong side, but failing to find the fox regardless.

        Hunt 3:
                Ian placed his fox in Rockbeare Park Alphington, about three km from hunt 2 as glided by an adopted pelican.  VK3YQN atoned for hunt 2’s misery by arriving first, followed by BLN, OW, TXO and eventually by FVXN.

        Hunt 4:
                Roger walked into a park just west of Kim Close (or Court?) Bulleen, along some paths and over a bridge and into the trees and scrub just on the east bank of the river thing, about 3.5 km from hunt 3 as the eagle soars.  Realising that he was carrying two heavy transmitters, Roger decided to place the WIA fox and Gaffer Tape Special about 30 metres apart and run both simultaneously.  The hoped-for confusion was not to be, for most of the runners went straight to one or the other.  Oh well.  Bruce VK3TJN of the YQN team was in first, followed by Josh of TXO, then Ewen OW, David XAJ of BLN and FVXN failed to find the fox.  Upon walking out to the meeting place, Ian VK3YQN regaled the rapt audience with bugle hits such as “Squawk of the Light Brigade”, “Tuppence Revelly” and “I’m Too Sexy For My Horn”, before he was threatened several times and took the hint.

        Hunt 5:
                Ian placed the fox in Ruffey Lake Park, about 4.5 km east of hunt 4 as the ibis shtooms.  Once again the bugle-powered YQN team got in first, followed by TXO, BLN, OW and FVXN.  Clifford’s hat was confiscated by the Good Taste Police but reluctantly returned when Clifford would not stop complaining.

        Hunt 6:
                Roger was *supposed* to set up in a residential street about four km east of hunt 5 as the pigeon homes, but elected instead to run a mobile hunt.  The Gaffer Tape Special was pressed into service as an intermittent fox (with WIA fox’s loop cable tied to the roof of the tremendously versatile Ford Territory).  Roger drove loops of the grid bounded by 34F11 and 48H2.  It was sadistically entertaining to drive behind hounds, give them a burst and quickly turn into a side street, TX off, u-turn then out again in the other direction.  VK3OW was quickly onto this scheme and performed a classic interception – those modern vehicles just seem to bounce off each other.  A couple of minutes later Roger found the runner from the VK3FVXN team and after asking him if “you people are hunting aliens or something” the runner reluctantly looked at the Territory and realised it was so much more than just a passing curious local.  Two minutes later, running Marta of the BLN team also attempted to avoid eye contact with the passing Territory’s excitable driver, but when Roger called out “the signal is REALLY strong around here” Marta seemed to observe a peak in signal strength and her team intercepted the Tertie.  After watching Bruce of the YQN team run up hill and down dale for ages, sympathy kicked in and YQN was ‘allowed’ to locate the magnificant beast of a fox car.  Evenually the TXO team found the now-stationary fox just as time was about to expire.

        Hunt 7:
                Ian placed the supper fox at the 100 Acres Reserve, about two Melway pages from hunt six as the navigator thumbs.  YQN found Ian first , followed very quickly by TXO and OW, then BLN several minutes later and FVXN missed the time limit.

        Teams returned to Ian VK3MZ’s QTHR for Loris’s famous soup, plus hot food, cakes, cold ham and turkey, hard boiled eggs, bags of lettuce and lashings of ginger beer.  After a period of waiting for people to stop talking, and a special invitation to Clifford to *please* stop talking, scores were announced:-

Team            Hunt 1          Hunt 2          Hunt 3          Hunt 4          Hunt 5          Hunt 6          Hunt 7          Total           Place

VK3BLN  5               0               1               5               4               4               4               23              3

VK3YQN  0               10              0               0               0               5               0               15              1

VK3OW   1               5               2               4               6               0               1               19              2

VK3TXO  10              1               4               1               1               9               1               27              4

VK3FVXN 10              9               9               10              9               1               9               57              5

        Well done to VK3YQN for the win, and OW for a consistent evening.  BLN faded a bit in the second half, while TXO could have been in second place but for the poor choice of beam orientation on the first hunt, Gary.  FVXN – persevere!

        June’s fox will be the VK3YQN team.

73’s,
        Roger VK3HRL

Sat, 17 April, 2010       

Results of the 2010 Vic Fox Hunt Championships

Hi All,

Thanks for coming. I hope we challenged you all, and provided a wide variety of hunts for the night.

A very special thankyou to Pierre, Ryordan, Jack, Rohan, Tanya, Arneka, Eleisha, and everybody else than lent equipment/took the helm of the bbq for a little while at lunch.

Apologies for the late running at supper, I had some car issues and wound up with 2 flat tyres. The car is home safe now and all is well (except I now need a new set of tyres!)

Scores are attached. But the summary is as follows:

1st Place: MZ
2nd Place: BLN
3rd Place: YQN
4th Place: BLI
5th Place: FAST

Note that in the attached scores file, the scoring for the leg times is based on “what order your leg time was”. This is to simplify the scoring, as there was no maximum “We’ll turn the tx off after this time”. The lowest leg time is scored as being 1st for that leg, the the next lowest 2nd, etc.

I hope you all had a good night.

Cheers,
Josh

HUNT	VK3VR/MZ/HRL	VK3YQN	VK3FAST	VK3BLI	VK3BLN
1	1	4	2	3	5
2	2	5	4	3	1
3	1	2	5	4	3
4/1	2	3	4	5	1
4/2	2/3	2/3	2/3	3/4	2/1
5	4	1	3	5	2
6	1	4	2	3	5
7/1	3	4	5	2	1
7/2	4/15	5/25	3/11	2/10	1/9
8/1	2	3	5	4	1
8/2	3/31	3/31	2/27	1/24	4/35
8/3	1/12	2/17	5/48	4/23	3/19
8/4	2/16	1/13	4/DNF	1/13	3/24
TOTAL	28	39	46	40	31
Place	1	3	5	4	2

Notes:
Multi-leg hunts show leg placings/leg time.
Overall score is based on placings– lowest score is best

Hunt		1	2	3	4	5	6	7
total

FVXN		4	10	3	10	10	10	7	54

YQN		0	0	0	10	4	0	1	15
MZ/VR		2	2	3	0	0	7	0	14

Results of the February 2010 2m Fox Hunt

The February 2010 hunt was run by the VK3FOX team and saw hunts conducted around the North and North-eastern suburbs.  Despite the fox specifically stating that fences should not be crossed some hounds, in the heat of the hunt, could just not help themselves! As things worked out this did not appear to effect the overall result, however there were some heated words exchanged!.

The first hunt was on a new bike track in Eltham North and a good signal was provided to the hounds at the start location, the Nillumbik council offices. Hounds found this spot in short order.  The second hunt was in the back blocks of Diamond Creek around some power lines and there were a number of fences that the fox explained should not be crossed; several teams ignored this and were penalised, much to their disgust. VK3FVXN was the first team to come in the right way and was awarded with a 0.  YQN who had been coming up against fences all over the place was a very close second and TXO was third after finding the fence earlier and then having to determine the correct way in.

The next hunt was supposed to be a quickie but due to the fox battery deciding to give up signals were a little weak!! This resulted in a large spread of times as those closer to the fox as the battery died could still hear the much reduced signal.  Bursts of 80W from the fox vehicle, that was close to the fox, assisted those that were having trouble.

Hunt 4 was near the creek in Hurstbridge and those that had been on a mountain bike event in the area had a distinct advantage with Bruce from the YQN team winning the sprint.  As the fox had changed to a hand held some hounds had difficulty locating the much smaller transmitter and provided much entertainment to the assembled onlookers as they tried to locate the fox..

The next hunt was some distance off in Panton Hill, due to some navagational difficulties the fox was still mobile when the FVXN team ran them to ground the rest found us once we had stopped on the side of Long Gully Road.

Due to the time, the last 2 hunts were dropped and the supper hunt  was a quick selection by the fox  at the end of Dering Street in Diamond Creek, this is a dead end road that has houses backing onto the railway line and beyond that is a large area of parklands.  As a number of teams discovered there is no access to Dering Street from the parklands!!

BLN team were the only ones to find us, thus ensured their win for the evening.  Team YQN were in the lead coming in to this hunt and with a bit of luck could have won the evening, unfortunately Bruce was discovering the railway line and fences just as the BLN team drove up to the fox.

Supper was at the home of Chris  VK3CHR and after a supper of sandwiches, sausage rolls, party pies, quiches, hot dogs and chocolate cake the following  results were announced. Standard (Time of arrival after first hound in) scoring was used.

Team	Hunt 1	Hunt 2	Hunt 3	Hunt 4	Hunt 5	Hunt 6	Score	Placing
VK3BLN	0	10	0	3	2	0	15	1
VK3OW	1	10	6	9	8	10	44	5
VK3TXO	2	5	2	3	10	10	32	3
VK3YQN	2	1	1	0	8	10	22	2
VK3FAST	4	10	9	8	9	10	50	6
VK3FVXN	4	0	10	10	0	10	34	4

Congratulation to the BLN team for an excellent effort.

Cheers
Greg VK3VT from the VK3FOX team