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Tenth USA ARDF Championships will take place near Cincinnati

December 7th, 2009
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ardfpin2Tenth USA ARDF Championships will take place near Cincinnati, Ohio on the weekend of May 21-23, 2010. This is one week after the Dayton Hamvention.

As in recent years, there will be a practice and equipment testing day on Friday, followed the next day by the two-meter competition and an evening banquet. On Sunday, the 80-meter competition and medal award ceremony will take place in a different location.

Organizers of these championships are members of OH-KY-IN Amateur Radio Club, Orienteering Cincinnati (OCIN), and the Butler County VHF Association. These are the same folks who put on the very successful 2003 USA and IARU Region 2 Championships, but the 2010 competitions will take place in different venues.

USA’s ARDF Championships are open to all, regardless of radio-orienteering skill level or ham radio licensing status. Category winners may earn positions on ARDF Team USA, which will travel to Croatia for the Fifteenth ARDF World Championships in September, 2010.

For the second year, registration for USA’s national championships will be at no charge for first-time participants and for participants coming from outside North America. The official championships Web site (www.usardf2010.com) is now online. Registration and suggested lodging information will be posted soon.

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My PART Westford Presentation

December 8th, 2009
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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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80 Meters Fox Hunt - Blue Hills - 12/05/2009

December 6th, 2009
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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. bh120520091 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:

Split
Time
Distance
Elevation Gain
Elevation Loss
Avg Speed
Max Speed
Summary 01:14:25 11.96 347 351 06:13 03:17
1 00:12:42 2.24 68 42 05:40 03:37
2 00:12:03 1.69 20 49 07:07 04:09
3 00:10:11 2.00 110 98 05:06 03:17
4 00:21:26 3.39 101 53 06:19 03:45
5 00:13:37 1.75 23 75 07:46 03:45
6 00:04:24 0.89 25 34 04:56 03:52

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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Live Course Feed on GoogleMaps

December 5th, 2009
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Today we will have a training at Blue Hills , and I will be testing live feed from my GPS while I am on the course. You will be able to watch my course running in real time. My start time will be around 10 a.m. EST. Enjoy it!

LIVE TRACKING IS OVER.

GPS track along with fox location and results will be posted later.

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