For my A-level coursework this year I was hoping to study the development of how the controls are marked throughout the years, ie. from Punching to Dibbers to Emit.
Has anyone come across any helpful articles I could use for information?
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There's an orienteering museum somewhere in Czech Republic.... they must have a website somewhere. Suggest looking via the Czech Federation http://www.orientacnibeh.cz/index.php
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There was a museum with a load of O stuff in Helsinki, in the old olympic stadium.
Also contact Siegfried Ritter at http://www.sportident.de who invented it.
I met him in November im sure hell help as he invented it when his 6 yr old daughter couldnt use pin punches.
Also contact Siegfried Ritter at http://www.sportident.de who invented it.
I met him in November im sure hell help as he invented it when his 6 yr old daughter couldnt use pin punches.
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I can remember self-inking stamps and conductor's clippers being used in the 70s, altough by the time I started orienteering the familiar pin punches were more usual. And I think emit is older than SI - certainly it was the first to be used in international races.
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and don't forget there's that funny John Doe (or something) system - I think they use it in the quantocks and on some mountain marathons. We have a club member who started orienteering in Norway before the war - I bet he knows a thing or two! (when I say he started orienteering in norway I mean that I don't think there was any orienteering in norway before he started)
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Sorry Samsonite - I've made your question look a bit odd (like are you talking about the punch or our norwegian member) sadly I'm not as familiar with bar tills as you - I think it looks like an old chrome car door handle.
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Gross wrote:
It's at Zlin and the URL is http://www.orienteering-history.info/aaction.php
There's an orienteering museum somewhere in Czech Republic....
It's at Zlin and the URL is http://www.orienteering-history.info/aaction.php
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Thanks everyone, wow I didn't expect so much feedback so quickly.
So a quick review is:
Self-inking stamps > Conductor's Clippers > Pin Punches > Emit > SI Card
(Then to the most recent Emit that you don't have to punch, ie. just wave at the control?)
Am I missing any?
So a quick review is:
Self-inking stamps > Conductor's Clippers > Pin Punches > Emit > SI Card
(Then to the most recent Emit that you don't have to punch, ie. just wave at the control?)
Am I missing any?
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I believe the SI Card and the brick were available at roughly the same time. In Norway they have adopted the Brick, whilst in Sweden the SI Card. This was definately the case pre-2000.
Since this time the UK appears to have standardised on the SI Card, although I have heard comments regarding the beenfit of the Brick and its ability to be used by wafting it at the control.
Since this time the UK appears to have standardised on the SI Card, although I have heard comments regarding the beenfit of the Brick and its ability to be used by wafting it at the control.
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LostAgain wrote:Since this time the UK appears to have standardised on the SI Card, although I have heard comments regarding the beenfit of the Brick and its ability to be used by wafting it at the control.
Well, as I will be wafting a brick at a control this coming weekend, it does not seem to be too standardised to me. And that is before I mention the Joe Lee system I will be using next month
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