Fox hunting minus the fox

Over one hundred amateur radio enthusiasts will travel to Mount Gambier this weekend for the 47th Radio Convention

Every year on the June long weekend ham radio enthusiasts get together for the Australian Fox Hunting Championships.

Competitors travel from all over Australia to claim the coveted champion's trophy.

Wayne Kilpatrick is the South East Radio Group Convention Coordinator and said this has nothing to do with 'eliminating foxes from the countryside'.

The game involves using direction finding radio equipment to look for people and collect points.

Contestants usually compete in teams and all squeeze into the one vehicle.

"Most operate from four wheel drives and they might have a team of four people in a four wheel drive, but the equipment in that car is absolutely mind boggling," he said.

The antenna formations are an art.

"You couldn't believe that you could put this much equipment on a vehicle."

Read the full ABC South East SA news story (with pictures and an audio interview with Wayne Kilpatrick) at:
http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2010/06/08/
2921737.htm?site=southeastsa