[ARDF] ARDF on Wikipedia

[Kenneth E. Harker]

On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 10:34:48PM -0500, Matthew Robbins wrote:
> Ken,
> 
>     That's a great introduction.  Wow.  Did you write it?  

Yes, I wrote it.  I borrowed some ideas about the structure from the 
Wikipedia article on orienteering.

>                                                            Are you
> looking for photos showing specific things?  The one thing that bugged
> me was the term "magnetic loop antenna", which is probably correct,
> but I think it might be confusing.  I probably would call it a loop
> antenna, but I am certainly not knowledgeable about this.

Yeah - this is why we need other people to look it over and make things 
even clearer.

As far as photos, I was thinking it could benefit from:

* A photo of a runner in the woods, preferably carrying a 144 MHz yagi.
* A photo or two of 80M rigs, perhaps being held as if in use.
* Maybe a photo of a transmitter location with O control flag.

Enough photos to give people a sense of what the sport looks like and 
that, you know, we're not making it all up. :-)  I've looked through my 
photos, and I don't really have one I think are quite good enough.

 
> Matthew
> 
> On 11/14/05, Kenneth E. Harker <kenharker at kenharker.com> wrote:
> > There is now an article on Wikipedia about ARDF:
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARDF
> >
> > Wikipedia is a free and open encyclopedia on the web.  Anyone can contribute
> > to any article, with the stipulation that any content provided must be free
> > of any copyright or license issues.  The objective is to have articles of
> > an encyclopedic nature - informative and factual rather than promotional or
> > expository in nature.  The ARDF article should ideally be something that
> > you could point a non-ham to and they would come away from reading it with
> > a basic understanding of the sport.
> >
> > The current page could no doubt be improved upon, expecially with photos
> > of competitors running on course.  If anyone has photos that they would be
> > willing to distribute under one of the suitable licenses (not all of
> > which expect you to relinquish copyright), I'll be glad to handle the details
> > of putting it on the page.
> > (See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Uploading_images)
> >
> > A related article that could also use some work:
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_direction_finding
> >
> >
> > Someone should also write a separate article about mobile transmitter hunting,
> > although I'm not sure under what exact title.
> >
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> > kenharker at kenharker.com
> > http://www.kenharker.com/
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