NB: This club meeting will not take place at the clubhouse.

The club will hold its annual Direction Finding (DF) Hunt, also known as “fox hunt”, at the woodland in Scadbury, using the beer garden of the Sydney Arms pub as the base, which is the same venue we have used for the last couple of DF Hunts.

This location has many paved paths on a slight slope which will make hunting easier and safer.

The base camp for the evening will be the Sydney Arms Public House in Old Perry St, Chislehurst BR7 6PL. This is halfway between Chislehurst War Memorial and the A20 Sidcup roundabout. The Sydney Arms is a short walk from the Scadbury woodlands and is able to provide liquid refreshment and has a decent hot food menu which you can look up on-line (https://www.sydneyarms.com/menus/) if you wish to bring supporters to liven up the evening!

The pub has a car park and garden, with additional on-street parking available and another car park nearby. The event is a social evening so do come along even if you don’t intend to compete in the DF Hunt.

We aim to meet in the Sydney Arms just prior to 7.30pm and send you out in individual groups with a timed spacing, the last group going out at 8.30pm. The end of the hunt is timed for 9.30pm, so we can all gather safely at the base and announce the winner(s) of the prestigious “Tally Ho! Cup”.

The transmitters will be in the 144.700 MHz region and will be transmitting MCW (modulated carrier wave) signals which can be received by any FM receiver and will be vertically polarized, so any cheap 2 metre transceiver will work.

You will need a directional antenna and a simple switched attenuator in the antenna line. The transmitters will be located just off the paths, no need to go cross country to find anything! The actual transmitters will have a tag attached to them with a message written on it. You are required to note down the message content and show it to the adjudicator upon your return to base. The transmitters will all have different MCW messages and will be sent with different tone frequencies, this will enable those who are not too brilliant at Morse to easily distinguish between transmissions.