Fox Hunting
Saturday May 16th 2026 - Upcoming Fox Hunt & BBQ
Date change due to weather! (Again)
Event Details
Date: Saturday, May 16th, 2026
Time: 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Location: Colonel Samuel Smith Park Gazebo
Google – 43.593651, -79.512394
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Maidenhead – FN03fo82m
Join us for a fun afternoon of fox hunting, HF radio (POTA activation), and a club BBQ.
Yagi antennas and the fox hunting kit will be provided. Bring your own HT if you have one.
Restrooms are available nearby.
Please bring a lawn chair for your comfort.
All members, family, and guests are welcome.
Please let us know you’re coming so we can plan for food and seating.
RSVP here: https://forms.gle/R3wGgwUZnKUYCzcR9
Depending on your skill level or how hard you want to hunt, you can either borrow one of our antennas, build your own, or try your luck with just using a hand held receiver and a rubber duck.
This is what our radio foxes sound like. So get your Yagi(s) ready!
What is a Fox Hunt?
Don’t worry, your furry friends are safe! When amateur radio operators go “fox hunting” they’re not actually looking for real foxes, instead a low power radio transmitter (aka: the fox) is hidden somewhere (sort of like a geocache) and teams of people head out and see if they can find the transmitter.
These events can be relatively simple or quite elaborate. What makes them fun is that radio foxes can be hidden just about anywhere publicly accessible. This means radio amateurs can test their skills through varying environments ranging from the wide open country side, to a hilly forest or all the way into a deep complex urban center.
In some cases multiple radio foxes are used, sometimes on the same frequencies to confuse those hunting, and other times the fox is literally on the move, attached to a vehicle, bicycle or even some sort of remote controlled device. If you really want a fox hunt to be a challenge, put your fox on a remote control boat or have a bicycle courrier in a big city carry it around.
Why Fox Hunt?
Fox hunting is a great way for amateur radio clubs to engage their members. It encourages team building, cooperation, physical exercise and anyone, even those with physical disabilities to still participate.
Fox hunts can be as simple or complex and competitive or passive as you choose, and they not weather dependent. You can fox hunt in any season under virtually any conditions depending on how brave (or foolish) you are.
While fox hunts are fun, they do have real world implications. Amateurs learn valuable skills while fox hunting, and these skills can be used to find sources of RFI (radio frequency interreference) and better understand how signals propagate, reflect or attenuate in different environments and conditions.
