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Results – Jun-10, 80m Radio-O/ARDF, Eno River
The event was an 80m classic and held at the Eno River State Park – Few’s Ford Access. It was sunny all day and plenty hot. We had ten participants and seven starts. Many people found the Eno River area quite challenging with the change in elevaiton needed to get from one fox to the…
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Results for June 3 Sprints at Bond Park
It was a great day for orienteering on June 3 at Bond Park – sunny and warm, but manageable. Runners had their choice of four separate maps (Beginner: 1.6km, Sprint A: 2.6km, Sprint B: 2.7km and “The Whole Enchilada”: 5.3km). Sprints A and B had shortcut options that allowed runners to make a 2.0km course. …
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2018-05-27 ARDF/Radio-O Results
The event was designed as an 80m classic and was held at William B. Umstead State Park – South section. We had eleven participants and nine starts. Everyone did a fantastic job braving the hot and humid weather. Several people commented that the course was challenging and participants chose many different routes between the controls.…
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Results May 20th 2018 Umstead West
The rain held off all day, however, it was quite humid. Thank you Vladimir Stemkovski, Mihai Ibanescu and Clint Lloyd for help with control pick up. Brown Course 3.5 KM Finish # ‘First name’ ‘Name’ TOTAL TIME ‘ST_time’ ‘FI_time’ ‘1.CN’ 1st leg ‘1.Time’ ‘2.CN’ 2nd leg ‘2.Time’ ‘3.CN’ 3rd leg ‘3.Time’ ‘4.CN’ 4th leg ‘4.Time’…
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Orienteering & Radio Orienteering – the Difference
There are differences and similarities between Orienteering and Radio Orienteering. Radio-O, is commonly referred to as Amateur Radio Direction Finding or ARDF. Both were developed as a sport after WWII as part of military training. Orienteering to improve soldiers’ ability to navigate with a map, and Radio-O (ARDF) to locate the enemy when they used…
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Update: Results for Orienteering and ARDF April 21-22, 2018
Here is an update to the results for the event. The MeOS software outputs the date in IOF standard .xml format that can be used by WinSplits, an online data analysis and display. This software has additional information including “Time Lost in Errors”. You can check the event results out on the WinSplits webpage that…
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Results for Open Event at Carolina North Forest (Apr 8, 2018)
Perfect day for orienteering. We were really lucky that the rain ended on Saturday. It was the first time we used this start location at Carolina North and it worked out very well – we’ll do it again in the future. The courses weren’t particularly difficult, but overabundance of features on the map made it…
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Results — Dorothea Dix — 25 March 2018
Last Sunday, 12 orienteers were drawn to Dorothea Dix park in Raleigh to try their hand at two urban sprints. In the NC Piedmont, orienteers are so accustomed to forest maps that are predominantly white (open woods), with scattered bits of green (vegetation) and black (rock & trails). So when competitors first turned-over the…
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Members meet, 25 March, Dorothea Dix
On Sunday March 25, BOK will hold our first meet at Dorothea Dix park in Raleigh. This event is open to BOK members, members of other orienteering clubs, and active members of the U.S. military. We will offer two short (appx. 2.5 km) urban sprints. Sprint orienteering can provide a qualitatively different experience than our…