Category: Radio Orienteering
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Open Radio-O/ARDF event at Eno River, Sun. Jun-10.
We will have an 80 m classic ARDF event at the Eno River State Park Few’s Ford Entrance at the parking lot at the end of Cole Mill Rd on Sunday, Jun-10. Everyone is welcome and we will have instruction throughout the event. For more information about Radio-O/ARDF, see the BOK ARDF page. Starts 11:00 AM…
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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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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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Radio-O May 27, 2018 Everyone Welcome
We will have an 80 m classic ARDF event at Umstead South on Sunday, May-27. For more information about Radio-O/ARDF, see the BOK ARDF page. Starts 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM. Course closes at 3:00 PM. Remember there is a $5 fee if you need to rent a receiver. Open event with pre-registration: Newcomers welcome…
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Open Orienteering & ARDF events April 21-22
On the weekend of April 21-22, 2018 we will have an Open Orienteering event with all the courses on SUNDAY, and a Radio-Orienteering event (ARDF) on SATURDAY. Both days will be held on the Birkhead Wilderness map starting from 1725 Gray Owl Road, Asheboro, NC (Turn around on the gravel pad at the end of the…
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ARDF Training Week(s) Feb 17 to March 4th
Illia Ivanko put on the most intense ARDF training camp in the US ever. We had 12 events over 16 days at 7 venues. That was 6 Classics, 2 FoxOring, and 5 Sprint events. (One day we had 2 sprint courses.) We had 6 new people try the sport and a couple of them are…
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Eno River Open Event Feb. 18, 2018
Everyone is welcome to our first public orienteering event at Eno River State Park, on Sunday, 18 February. Registration will be at the Fews Ford shelter, just west of the loop parking lot at the end of Cole Mill Road. (GPS coordinates = 36.073616, -79.007005). IMPORTANT: DO NOT PARK IN THE LOOP PARKING LOT. Instead,…
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80 m Radio “O” Receivers
BOK received the first four of our 80 m ARDF (Radio “O”) receivers from Vadim. BOK will be renting these receivers at our Radio “O” events. (Bring your own headset.) I put them through a test and they are excellent. They are very lightweight, just under 9 ounces, which is important if you are holding…
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Results – Radio-O, 80m Classic, Oct-29, Carolina North Forest
Six orienteers decided to brave the threatening weather. They were well rewarded. We only had a couple short showers. This was the longest ARDF at CNF and we’ve reached the limits of this venue for classic events. We had two special participants. Imre showed up with a receiver kit he built himself and took first…
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North Carolina International Training and ARDF Radio Orienteering Events in Asheboro, NC
North Carolina International Training and ARDF Radio Orienteering Events in Asheboro, NC July 24 – 28, 2017 UPDATE 7/14/17: Monday’s training event will focus on: taking accurate bearings and drawing them on the map detailed map reading length ~2.5 km Participants will need to have a compass, marking pencils in two colors, and a map board.…