Tally Ho!

 The 2025 - 2026 QRP Fox Hunt Season has begun! If you've never tried this before, I highly recommend it, It's a lot of fun and after one ro to hunts, you're bound to become hooked.

The particulars, rules, regulations, results and all that kind of stuff can be found here - https://www.qrpfoxhunt.org

Personally, i will not be participating this year, as either a Fox or Hound.  The main reason being that the Hunts start here at 9:00 PM EST and run for an hour and a half. That being said, when I do participate as either a Fox or Hound, there's an adrenaline rush. I get all wired up from the thrill of the hunt and generally cannot fall asleep until somewhere close to Midnight.  When you have to wake up at 5:00 AM for the next workday, it spells "being fuzzy all day".  If I was still in my 20s or 30s, that wouldn't be a big deal. As I get closer and closer to 70, it is a big deal.

As a Fox, it seems everyone wants to see their results super fast. To that end there's a "live QSO map" where the Foxes can enter the calls of the Hounds they work as they work them and a little green dot will pop up on a ,ap of North America. This is actually a great tool for preventing duplicate contacts - but it involves keyboard entry in real time.

I'm a fossil. I log with paper and pen and transfer to my computer afterward. I'm also not the most proficient Fox in the herd, either. Great Hams like John K4BAI or Rick NK9G can easily work somewhere around 70 or so Hounds per Hunt. I'm usually lucky to get near 50. If I were to try and type and operate at the same time, that would most likely go down to 30 or 40 per Hunt. I'm not that talented.

But my issues aside, the QRP Fox Hunts are a grand old time. You should try it at least once - but I'll warn you that they're like Lays potato chips. You most likely won't be able to stop at one.

72 de Larry W2LJ

QRP - When you care to send the very least!