[ARDF] Register for USA and IARU-R2 ARDF Championships in Boston

[Homingin at aol.com]

Registration is now open for the next USA ARDF Championships, June 5 - 7, 
2009.  Radio-orienteers of all skill levels will gather for two days of intense 
competition, first on two meters and then on 80 meters.  The events are open to 
all persons, with or without a ham license.  This year's USA Championships 
are being combined with the championships of International Amateur Radio Union 
Region 2 (North and South America).  Visitors from any country are welcome.

Organizing and hosting the 2009 championships is Vadim Afonkin KB1RLI, one of 
USA's most accomplished radio-orienteers.  As a youth, he learned ARDF and 
won awards for it in his native Russia.  After coming to America, he first 
participated in USA's national championships in 2003, where he won silver and 
bronze medals in the five-fox M21 category.  He has competed in M21 at every USA 
championships since then and has had the best five-fox time of all stateside 
participants every time.  Last year, he finished in fifth place worldwide in the 
M40 category on 80 meters at the ARDF World Championships in Korea.

Site of the contests will be the Blue Hills Reservation, a 7000-acre open 
space that is about ten miles south of downtown Boston.  Effective immediately, 
the Reservation area is off limits for anyone who will be competing in the 2009 
USA ARDF Championships.  To avoid any unfair advantage, potential competitors 
may not go to this site until competition time.

To encourage first-timers and foreign visitors, the competition fee will be 
waived for persons who have never participated in the USA ARDF Championships 
and for persons coming from outside North America.  Those persons will have the 
option of purchasing event T-shirts.  The competition fee for all others will 
be $50 per person, including T-shirt.

The championships Web site, with registration form, is www.bostonardf.org.

More information about ARDF in the USA is at www.homingin.com.

Joe Moell K0OV
USA ARDF Coordinator
homingin at aol.com
www.homingin.com

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