Req 8d5 — Map Your Hunt

Creating Your Fox Hunt Map

After your hunt, produce a map that shows your counselor exactly how you used your receiver and antenna to locate the fox. This demonstrates that you understood the process, not just that you stumbled across the transmitter.

What to Include

1. The hunt area — a printed or hand-drawn map of the park, field, or campus where the hunt took place. Include landmarks (trails, buildings, trees, fences).

2. Your starting position — mark it clearly with a label.

3. Bearing points — mark each location where you stopped to take a bearing. At each point, draw an arrow showing the direction your antenna indicated the strongest signal.

4. Your route — draw a line showing the path you walked between bearing points.

5. The fox’s location — mark the transmitter’s actual position.

6. Triangulation — if you took bearings from two or more positions, draw lines from each bearing point in the direction of the signal. The lines should converge near the fox’s actual location. This intersection is the triangulation point — the estimated position based on your bearings.

Map Tips

• Use a printed satellite or topographic map of the area (Google Maps, Google Earth, or a trail map) as your base.
• Use different colors: one for your route, one for bearing arrows, one for the fox location.
• Note the time and signal strength at each bearing point if you recorded them.
• If your bearings didn’t converge perfectly, that’s okay — note why (reflections off buildings, terrain blocking, or operator error). Imperfect results with honest analysis are more impressive than suspiciously perfect results.

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