Boston ARDF - 2009 USA and Region 2 ARDF Championship

Some time ago I was invited by Andy Stewart - KB1OIQ , President of the Westford PART group to give a presentation about ARDF at its monthly meeting. I prepared a short presentation and gave an 1 hour speech to the group of hams. I hope this will bring a new ARDFers to our sport.

I made a presentation with OpenOffice and not sure if it will work with PoverPoint, but you can try it.

Here is some pictures provided by WB1GOF, Robert Schmeichel

Thank you Andy!

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On Dec 5, me and Lezsek had a 80 meters training at our famous Blue Hills map. Nick (UR8UA) set a course and we started around 9:30 a.m and finished well before rain started. I was transmitting my running as live session , and anyone could see it in real time, here on this website. This was a first time I tried to do it. It looks like there may be a few bugs exists in software I am using, and I will try to fix them once I have time, but besides abnormal speed (device showed I was running with 23,495 km per our speed)  - it was ok. My goal is to bring real time information from our training and competition and to make it here available at real time to view by the rest of the world while we are on the course. Final goal is to have inexpensive system to track athletes in real time and to see how they are doing at the finish and online for spectators. Here is the map with FOX and Start and Finish locations, along with my splits. Click on image to enlarge (to get full details - click on image on the next page as well.) Here is My GPS Track Running Details for 80 Meters Fox Hunt - Blue Hills. My time was 74 minutes with change… Lez finished it under 112 minutes which is great progress - course was really long and Blue Hills is not easy terrain to run. Here is my splits:

I lost 2 cycles - one at number 1, when I hit the marsh - it was impossible to cross it in 1 minute - I went west from marsh, as I did not expect fox to be at that small area behind it. And second cycle I lost at number 2 - when fox finished I got almost to water tank, marked on the map, but went 30 meters left from the transmitter in off cycle and did not find it. If it would be world class competition someone would not loose those 2 cycles for sure. In my opinion ideal time on this course was 64 minutes. I ran 74. Not bad for 12k distanse, but we need to do better. Loosing even a cycle at the World Champ - will get you no gold and may will leave you with no medals at all.

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Nikolay Ivanchikhin           44 min.
Vadim Afonkin                      47 min.
Ian Smith                                 61 min.
Lori Huberman                      80 min.
Leszek Lechowicz                  81 min.

Course map: breakheart20090802

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Vadim Afonkin              63:03       5 foxes
Brendan Shields            71:51       5 foxes
Ian Smith                         75:15       5 foxes
Nikolay Ivanchikhin   81:00       5 foxes
Leszek Lechowicz         96:40       5 foxes
Lori Huberman              117:47    5 foxes
Greg Burakovskiy          2 foxes

Map: Pine Hills Reservation 26 July - 3.5 Mhz

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80 meters foxhunt this Sunday at the Peters Hill - Start will be at the South-East corner of the school. Be there at 8:30. 5-6 km sprint with 5 transmitters. Course will be closed at 12:30

Please RSVP if you coming. Bring your friends!

73!

Vadim

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We had our first training this Saturday at the Franklin Park with 5 transmitters running short, 12 sec cycle. Here are results and map with transmitters:

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