[ARDF] Fun and Frustration

[bruce]

Marvin, Some random thoughts:

Fun:
- Finding your first transmitter
- Achieving a 'good run' (like orienteering)
- Choosing a good order
- Managing to keep contact with the map
- Having some technical solution work well
- Mastered a high reflection area
- Beating some particular competitor
- Socialising afterwards
- Running in the bush at night (night ARDF)
- Chocolate 

Frustrating/annoying:
- Getting quite close to a transmitter and it going off, and having to hang
around for 4 minutes without seeing it. Cause: Control flags too hidden.
- Not really getting the hang of the morse TX numbers, despite having heard
them in a practice, and therefore running in circles.
- Reflections leading you astray / woeful TX order
- Not being able to cope with all the information at the same time
(navigation, bearings, order, beeps, relocation, pencils, snakes, spiders
etc etc) resulting in dropping the bundle. It's more complicated than
orienteering, and even that is quite complicated for a newcomer.
- Having to hold too much stuff (ie. perhaps not well organised).
- Having to carry a sniffer for distances without using it (particularly
FoxOr events).
- Equipment failure.

Cheers,
Bruce

-----Original Message-----
From: ardf-bounces at kkn.net [mailto:ardf-bounces at kkn.net] On Behalf Of Marvin
Johnston
Sent: Monday, 21 September 2009 2:38 PM
To: ARDF
Subject: [ARDF] Fun and Frustration


Hi everyone,

I would love to hear your thoughts about is what people find fun, and 
what they frustrating about ARDF. Joe and April Moell and myself have 
been putting on ARDF hunts almost every month in So. California for a 
number of years now. Something I've noticed is the relatively low return 
rate of newcomers.

This begs the question of why.

Your comments/thoughts would be very much appreciated!

Thanks!

Marvin, KE6HTS
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