Has anyone tried Radio Orienteering?
I haven't but was trying to work out how you could do it and run fast....
I presume you carry your map, thumb compass and SI Card as normal but have all the other stuff...
How do you mark your map with the bearings?
Radio Orienteering
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errr. I ashamed to admit I am IARU region 3 U20 champion (asia, north america, australia, nz...)
try the Australian site too - http://www.ardf.org.au
my advice if your going to contact these people- Ignore their 'helpful hints' about finding controls, if you're a good orienteer you'll do well.
An outline from my limited experience (two events)-
You start with a map which only has the Start marked on it (this is most likely seperate from the finish which you have to find)
There are generally 5 controls on the course, each control emits a different 'tune' - some morse code thingamy; but they only go on for 1 minute out of every 5, eg. for the first minute control 1 is beeping, the second minute, control 2 is beeping etc.
To find the direction a control is in, you wave your antennae, the 'morse code signal gets a higher pitch/frequency the more directly it is pointed to the control site, (so you can find the direction of the control).
Your antennae will hopefully also have an exponential range finder on it, so you can estimate how far you are from the control.
The idea is to find all the controls as fast as possible, like in normal orienteering, only you don't have to go to them in order... but sometimes they put a time limit on the course, meaning if you haven't found all the controls, tough titties.
And also each control (which looks the same as a normal flag) has to be a minimum of 500m apart I think?
Once you've got all the controls, you've then got to find the finish, which has a different frequency signal, so you just change what level you have your antennae on-
I reckon normal o is a lot easier and more enjoyable.
I don't know why you'd bother.
try the Australian site too - http://www.ardf.org.au
my advice if your going to contact these people- Ignore their 'helpful hints' about finding controls, if you're a good orienteer you'll do well.
An outline from my limited experience (two events)-
You start with a map which only has the Start marked on it (this is most likely seperate from the finish which you have to find)
There are generally 5 controls on the course, each control emits a different 'tune' - some morse code thingamy; but they only go on for 1 minute out of every 5, eg. for the first minute control 1 is beeping, the second minute, control 2 is beeping etc.
To find the direction a control is in, you wave your antennae, the 'morse code signal gets a higher pitch/frequency the more directly it is pointed to the control site, (so you can find the direction of the control).
Your antennae will hopefully also have an exponential range finder on it, so you can estimate how far you are from the control.
The idea is to find all the controls as fast as possible, like in normal orienteering, only you don't have to go to them in order... but sometimes they put a time limit on the course, meaning if you haven't found all the controls, tough titties.
And also each control (which looks the same as a normal flag) has to be a minimum of 500m apart I think?
Once you've got all the controls, you've then got to find the finish, which has a different frequency signal, so you just change what level you have your antennae on-
I reckon normal o is a lot easier and more enjoyable.
I don't know why you'd bother.
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robbo lazy wrote:aaah shocking! couldn't they have just said asia pacific?
nope - they're radio peoples running this after all so have to have their own terminology for everything
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robbo... I take your point about the "why".... my reason is because 'it's there' and I haven't tried it before...
So... You start... with a Start Triangle... and have six places to visit... 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and Finish....
What's the strategy... Do you spend a few minutes trying to work them all out i.e. Wait for 5 mins, taking bearings, at one place and then move somewhere else and wait for another 5 mins taking the final 'trianglating?' bearings and have worked it all out? Once you know where all the controls are you can just go for it running it like a normal five control course?
If it isn't possible to work out the optimum order to start with I guess it's all luck! i.e. He who guesses the best control to go to first wins?
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Congratulations on your very grand sounding title.
So... You start... with a Start Triangle... and have six places to visit... 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and Finish....
What's the strategy... Do you spend a few minutes trying to work them all out i.e. Wait for 5 mins, taking bearings, at one place and then move somewhere else and wait for another 5 mins taking the final 'trianglating?' bearings and have worked it all out? Once you know where all the controls are you can just go for it running it like a normal five control course?
If it isn't possible to work out the optimum order to start with I guess it's all luck! i.e. He who guesses the best control to go to first wins?
PS
Congratulations on your very grand sounding title.
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At a district event in the National Forest the other week people were wondering around with what looked like tv arials, I guess radio orienteering is what they were doing. I had been wondering.
Fish are friends not food!
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Rich wrote:
They're called aliens rich
in the National Forest the other week people were wondering around with what looked like tv arials
They're called aliens rich
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