Pune Hams VU2RCP supported Govt College of Engineering Pune (CoEP) Fox Hunt 2023 in their annual event Mind Spark
VU3ZNE OM Parth who is just 17year old, the youngest member of Pune Hams conducted an Antenna workshop and the Fox Hunt
Kudos to Parth
Over 40 students across the college participated in the event, making it a great success.
Preparation for Fox Hunt started with an Antenna Workshop last week (3 Element Yagi-Uda Antenna) It was a Hands-on workshop for the teams who used the beams on the day of competition
Students were excited to learn about topics like Smith charts and antenna tuning. They learned everything about Yagi Antenna and about various measurements like directivity, gain, SWR, front-to-back ratio, etc After that, they assembled 8 Yagi antennas in the College Workshop.
Students also had the hands-on activity of Radio Direction Finding. The Fox for the Fox Hunt was made by CoEP students, one using Raspberry Pi {Thanks to Mangesh VU2OOM} and other using Arduino and Baofeng UV-5R
For D-day, there were 8+1 handsets provided by the following HAMS:
1) VU2OOM (OM Mangesh Patil)
2) VU2AMK (OM Ajit Karnik)
3) VU3OPY (OM Atul Kulkarni)
4) VU3ZNE (OM Parth Darade)
5) VU2MSB (OM Milind Bhagwat)
6) VU2VMV (OM Milind Vaidya)
7) VU2COE (CoEP Ham Club)
With the knowledge gained by students during the workshop, the fox hunt event was conducted on 28 October 2023. As accommodating 30+ students was a tough task, groups with 2 to 4 students in each group were formed. Due to the limitation of Handsets and Antenna, there were 2 rounds conducted for selecting the two winners.
First Round Participants
The first round was quite interesting, as there were two foxes hidden at random places by the VU2RCP group. The first fox (Raspberry Pi) was found in 5 Minutes and 51 seconds by Mr Harsh and Mr Atharv. Everyone was surprised to know how quickly they found the fox so we decided to hide the second fox at a not so easy to access location.
Second Round Participants
The second fox (Baofeng) was found in 21 minutes by Mr Anand and Mr Bhavik. VU2RCP group felicitated the First prize winners
Apart from the Fox Hunt event, we at VU2RCP encouraged Faculty members and students to prepare for the ASOC examination and reform the prestigious VU2COE Radio club to enhance the study of radio technology.
The event was a great success and all the participants, faculty members, and hams had a lot of fun and learning.
The college hopes to organize more such events in the future to promote the spirit of competition and camaraderie among the students.
73’s
As told by
Parth Darade
VU3ZNE
For VU2RCP
