Results of the July 2009 2m Fox Hunt
The July hunt was run by the VK3FOX team and saw hunts conducted around
the Northern suburbs. Fences and rivers featured in the hunts with
hounds often finding themselves on the wrong side of one of these
obstacles. Seven hunts were planned but due to problems in locating
runners and foxes this was reduced to just four. For the first and
third hunts 28.450MHz was provided as an alternate band. On the first
hunt this led the YQN team on a merry chase with them ending up in
Eltham while the fox was in Bundoora (some 180 degree ambiguity?) OW on
the other hand used their 10 metre gear to good effect winning the hunt
outright.
The Second hunt was in Plenty beside the Plenty Gorge. As expected
most teams found themselves on West of the river while the fox was on
the East. Most drove around but Bruce from the YQN team crossed the
river (more than once due to its meandering course!) and clambered up
the side of the gorge to arrive in second place.
Regulation style hunts were held on hunts three and four. Three was in Eltham and Four in Mont Park.
Supper was at the home of Greg VK3VT and after a supper of soup,
sandwiches, sausage rolls, party pies, quiches, chocolate biscuits and
cake the following results were announced. Time of arrival after first hound scoring was used.
|
Team
|
Hunt1
|
Hunt 2
|
Hunt 3
|
Hunt4
|
Placing
|
|
VK3OW
|
0
|
6/6
|
7/13
|
10/23
|
3
|
|
VK3YQN
|
10
|
4/14
|
7/21
|
7/29
|
4
|
|
VK3BLN
|
7
|
10/17
|
0/17
|
3/20
|
2
|
|
VK3TXO
|
9
|
0/9
|
5/14
|
0/14
|
1
|
|
VK3FAST
|
10
|
6/16
|
10/26
|
4/30
|
5
|
Congratulation to the TXO team for an excellent effort. As you can see
from the scores OW was leading till the last hunt and YQN just managed
to bump FAST into 5th spot. Fox for August is to be announced. Greg
has the VK3 fox.
Cheers
Greg VK3VT from the VK3FOX team