[ARDF] ARDF Practice

[Vadim Afonkin]

Hello to everyone, this is Vadim, KB1RLI from Boston.

Some of you may remember me as a host of 2009 US and Region 1 ARDF
championship. I am writing this letter because I wanted to ask my fellow
friend on their positions regarding my situation and US team selection
process.

It is not a secret US team members get selected based on results from only 2
US competitions - US  Championships. Last year I was hosting US and Region 1
Championship in Boston, completely alone with no sponsors and with only
support from my friends and guys from Cincinnati, Joe and April (Thank you
folks for your help!). I believe it went well and everyone enjoyed
competitions. Because I was a host I could not compete last year.

This year, because of my wife has a scheduled C-section on May 20th, it
appears I will not be able to come to Cincinnati to compete.

I did train for WC all last year by competing at ALL Ukraine official events
and was ranked #3 overall in Ukraine raitings as well as I went to Europe
Championship and competed there as well.

I did ran 180-250 kilometers every month to get ready to compete.

But because of bad timing I cannot come to Cincinnati.

I would like to ask my ARDF friends if you can get me on the team to compete
i Croatia.

Thank you,

Vadim

P.S. If you ordered US team uniform it will be delivered to you on time.