Photos of the 2016 USA ARDF Championships

by Joe Moell KØOV

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Dale Hunt WB6BYU (M60) runs to the foxoring finish line and a silver medal. 


Nearing the finish line is Illia Ivanko (M21 silver medal), a visitor from Ukraine.


Here comes Patrick Sears AK4JE into the finish and to gold in M40 category.


Iurii Kolesnykov UR3QRR is overjoyed as he completes the course and qualifies for a gold medal in M50.


Mike Minium is an well-traveled classic orienteer who likes foxoring's combination of orienteering and RDF.  This day he took second place in M50 category.


Scott Moore KF6IKO (M50 fifth place) explains his route choice to Patrick Sears AK4JE (left) and Ken Harker WM5R.


Nancy Bowers of Austin Orienteering Club was a busy volunteer during these championships, setting and picking up many of the transmitters.  Here she discusses the foxoring course with Mike Minium of Orienteering Cincinnati.


April Moell WA6OPS (at right) was Field Medic for all of the competitive events, assisted by Joyce Gent N8WXK (standing).  All injuries were minor and Harley Leach KI7XF had the first.


This is one of the ten foxoring transmitters that were built by Ken and Jen for this competition.  It is about the size of a navel orange.


Vadim Afonkin KB1RLI needed to make some minor replairs to his 80m ARDF set after winning M40 bronze in the foxoring.


The 80-meter sprint on Friday was the first event to take place at the Parrie Haynes C5 Youth Ranch.


To prevent an unfair advantage, all competitors were required to turn in their ARDF receivers for impound upon arrival.  They were not allowed to turn them on until their start time.


A wide variety of 80-meter ARDF sets were used.  Most had circular loop antennas, but some had smaller antennas of wire wound on a ferrite core.


Jen Harker W5JEN put out this sign to explain the sprint event.  Competitors were started at two-minute intervals.  First they sought their required transmitters among the five on 3510 KHz sending slow CW.  Next, they followed a signal on 3540 KHz to the spectator corridor and punched in there.  Then it was on to locate the required foxes among the five on 3570 KHz sending faster CW.  After that, they returned to the finish using their maps or the 3540 KHz signal.  The sign shows which of the transmitters are to be skipped by competitors in each age/gender category.  On the clipboard is the listing of start times for each competitor.


Four minutes before start time, each starting group received the map and could begin studying it.  Some competitors mounted their maps to a flat surface for easy marking of bearings in the field.  Here are Nicolai Mejevoi (M50) and Vadim Afonkin KB1RLI (M40).


Leaving the starting line onto the sprint course are Joseph Huberman K5JGH (M60) and Norbert Linke (M21).  Each will win gold this day.


Here goes Lori Huberman, on her way to gold in W21.


Photos and captions Copyright © 2016 Joseph D. Moell. All rights reserved.

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