[ARDF] ARDF Trends

[Marvin Johnston]

Okay, I took a look at the terms radio-orienteering, foxhunts, t-hunts, 
t-hunting, foxhunting, and radiosport plus a few others, and none of 
them had enough data to show a graph.

Google trends is at http://www.google.com/trends, so try it out.

Another interesting article that might apply to not getting people 
involved in our sport is:

Is the iPhone Killing Your Creativity?
http://lateralaction.com/articles/iphone-creativity/

I think a KEY to getting people involved is to get them involved, and 
not just tell them how much fun it is. Very few people seem to be such 
that they will take an idea and run with it; most need to have some 
hand-holding ... and a group to do it with.

Marvin, KE6HTS



Jay Hennigan wrote:
> 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.