Beautiful weather for this event.  The courses were complex as typical for Josef’s courses.  Thanks to Josef for course design, control setting, and registration, Joseph and Ruth for course layout, printing and pre-registration, Debra and Jeff Rezeli and Dave Waller for control pickup. One final note: In the Pre-Registration Form the section that says “Number […]

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If you missed the article on the BOK Club Shirts and want your choices to be included in the decision making, follow this link to the Shirt Article.

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We have been considering BOK club shirts for a few years, but have been put off by the high cost of the shirts.  While we were competing in the ARDF (Radio-O) World Championships held in Bulgaria last month, Ruth and I met representatives of Siven, a Bulgarian company that makes high quality athletic shirts at […]

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Excellent weather and short complex technical courses consistent with the “Middle Distance” standards.  Josef designed and set the courses. Note the consistency of the results.  All the winning times were about an hour.  Nice design, Josef.   Josef, Ed, and Joseph picked up the controls. The pizza delivery worked this weekend and with a addition of fruit […]

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The September 25 members event is confirmed at 1725 Gray Owl Road in Asheboro. (Please drive all the way in, turn around in the circle, and park in the driveway heading out.) The event will start at 10am, and the course closes at 2pm. If you need an earlier start let me know and I’ll […]

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Radio-O, known as Amateur Radio Direction Finding (ARDF) was born during the cold war when when Northern and Eastern European countries wanted to encourage technical activities that developed civil defense skills in the schools and communities. Classic Radio-O The basic idea of a Radio-O classic event is to find up to 5 transmitters (sometimes called […]

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The event was a great success in that almost everyone found all the controls and had fun. In this White/Yellow level event there are 5 transmitters, each on a different frequency, transmitting continuously. There were a reasonable assortment of issues that make any ARDF event “unique”, shall I say.  We picked up a box of Chinese receivers […]

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Josef set a very challenging score course.  No one got even close to collecting them all.  Joseph got the most controls, however he should be disqualified because of his extensive home court advantage.  There was a 5 point per minute overtime penalty for the first 5 minutes, then 10 points per minute after that.  There […]

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Map Reading – Line O The map has a network of purple lines (that are not physical trails in the terrain) following the lines offer several route choice options to the transmitters.  Controls are set along the line and off the line at some key decision points.  Participants are instructed to only follow the lines to the […]

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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 […]

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