Does anyone have practical, first hand knowledge of fox hunting on 13cm and other microwave bands?
I understand the various technologies and methodologies used in fox hunting, but nearly everything I've read on Google is focused on VHF and UHF. Given the proliferation of part 15 devices in the upper ISM bands, why aren't there more > 1GHz hunts?
Looking to discuss the best equipment suitable for hunting wifi, bluetooth, and others.
Posted Mar 28, 2012, 4:01 PM UTC
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This isn't strictly a ham fox hunt, but I found this story about locating a source of GPS interference interesting. The Hunt for RFI: Unjamming a Coast Harbor
That's such a crazy story!
I wish I had a 5000$ spectrum analyzer to play with.
$5000 is a cheap spectrum analyzer... According to this, the analyzer used in the article was $41k originally.
Great find and a good read. I wish they had given more info about the type of antenna used. I suppose I'll have to do a survey of all the antennas available in the 2.4GHz and 5.8GHz bands.
There was this:
Sounds like a custom built 1.5 GHz yagi.
I'm willing to bet it was some sort of log-periodic beam, or an axial-mode helix.