Gray Owl Open Event April 24, 2016 Results

Date: April 24, 2016
Location: Birkhead Wilderness (1725 Gray Owl Rd. Asheboro)
Director: Joseph Huberman
Event Type: Open and FoxOring ARDF

Filed under: Event Results,Latest News by Joseph on April 18th, 2016

We had excellent weather for a challenging event at Gray Owl, and I’m afraid there were more DNF’s than I like. The Davie HS teams picked the wrong event to move from Orange to Brown. The Orange to Brown transition is the most difficult in the sequence of courses, because while the length doesn’t change much the difficulty increases dramatically, particularly the penalty for missing a control because of the absence of catch features.

Added Technical Difficulty for Expert Courses
In the expert courses I had several controls that had a “sister” control on a nearby similar feature. In some cases the control description was slightly different, and in some cases it is the same. It was very important that you knew where you were to punch correctly because the control codes were blacked out. The technique to ace this is to stay in touch with the map as you approach the control. An alternate technique was to look for the sister controls at every control which actually made the single controls the more time consuming. In two cases I made slight errors which would have been trivial if the codes were shown, but were far more time consuming to ensure that it must be the correct control.

FoxOring ARDF Course
ARDF is Amateur Radio Direction Finding. It is an international sport where transmitters are placed in the woods and you use a directional radio receiver and an orienteering map to find the transmitters, which are not marked on the map. I set a 4k demonstration FoxOring course with 5 controls. In FoxOring courses you orienteer to a control location that is marked on the map and the transmitter is audible with your receiver. Then you use a radio direction finding receiver to actually locate the transmitter and punch box which is about 50 – 100m from the mapped control location. The transmitters are very low power and can only be heard from about 100m away. No results were computed because it was a demonstration and not a competitive course.

The results are below. Let me know if any corrections are needed.

4/24/16 Gray Owl, Birkhead

Results

White Course: 9 KP 1.7 km

     1 GoatsDoWhat?                37:44     70 71 72 73 63 64 76 77 75 78
     2 C3pNO                       39:21     70 71 72 73 63 64 76 77 78
     3 1spig 2jamaica-me-crazy     41:08     70 71 72 73 63 64 76 77 78
     4 Robert  Nikhil  Simrin      47:37     70 71 72 73 63 64 76 77 78
     5 Rodgers                     47:41     70 71 72 73 63 64 76 77 78
     6 Boone                     1:12:19     70 71 72 73 63 64 76 77 78
     7 Jessica Frank             1:50:38     70 71 72 73 63 64 76 77 78
       3-Spigs                       DNF     70 71 72 73 63 64 76 78
       Jonathan & Josua Guidry       DNF     78 72 77 76 64 63 73 70 71
       Betta & Giulia Guidry         DNF     78 76 77

Yellow Course: 9 KP 2.3 km

     1 Heath Strickland    55:24     70 65 66 67 68 69 63 76 78

Orange Course: 9 KP 3.7 km

     1 Fletcher Walters III     1:56:59     46 53 57 41 58 55 63 72 78
       D. Clint Brown               DNF     46 53 57 41 58 58 56 69 61 77 77
       Ron Brown                    DNF     46 53 57 41 45 55 63 72 78
       Mark and Dennis Walters      DNF     46 53 57

Brown Course: 10 KP 4.1 km

     1 Ed            1:30:38     44 40 45 57 54 60 61 72 75 79
     2 Ruth Bromer   1:37:42     44 40 45 57 54 60 61 72 75 79
       Al Geiger         DNF     44 40 45 57 54 53 60 61 72 75 78
       Davie HS DC4      DNF     44 40 45 57
       Davie HS DC5      DNF     44 40 45 57
       Davie HS DC3      DNF     44
       Davie HS DC1      DNF

Green Course: 12 KP 6.1 km

     1 Joseph Huberman  1:34:23     44 43 40 58 55 50 53 51 52 72 75 79

Red Course: 15 KP 6.8 km

     1 Vladimir Stemkovski   1:28:03     46 42 58 48 62 59 57 55 50 60 53 44 74 72 75 79
       Dano                      DNF     46 42 45 57 53
       jim                       DNF     44 43 40 72 77

Blue Course: 17 KP 12.3 km

     1 Brian Thompson   2:33:51     74 76 40 44 51 42 56 48 57 50 53 42 45 59 53 75 79
     2 David Butler     3:36:22     74 76 40 44 51 42 56 48 57 50 53 42 45 59 53 75 79
       Jonas Karlsson       DNF     74 76 40 44 51 42 56 47 57 49 50 53 42 45 59 53 77 75 79
       Harold Meder         DNF     52 76 40 44

Total of 30 starts.

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