[ARDF] ARDF Trends

[Jay Hennigan]

Homingin at aol.com wrote:

> Could it be because "ARDF" has not caught on as a popular term for what we 
> do here in the USA?  We long-timers use the term, but not the average ham.  
> When I hear people talking on the air about our events in the park, they 
> call them transmitter hunts, foxhunts, direction finding hunts (sometimes even 
> "directional" finding) and T-hunts, but they hardly ever call them ARDF 
> sessions.
> 
> My guess is that there are plenty of people searching for hidden 
> transmitter hunting information, but they use so many different terms to find it that 
> no single term rises up onto the Google trends list.

And even true ARDF (as opposed to other forms of transmitter hunting) 
goes by "Radio-orienteering" and "Radiosport" among different groups.

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