[ARDF] ARDF opportunities in 2013

[homingin at aol.com]

Happy New Year! It's going to be a great one for ARDF. We have a 
wonderful site in North Carolina for the USA and IARU Region 2 
Championships. The training camp, sprints and foxoring will be October 
9 - 11, followed by full-course 2m and 80 competitions on the weekend 
of October 12 - 13. Your hosts will be Joseph Huberman and Ruth Bromer, 
with technical assistance from Charles and Nadia Scharlau and support 
 from Backwoods Orienteering Klub. Watch for the formal announcement 
with travel, lodging and registration information, coming soon.

The other IARU regions will also be having ARDF championships in 2013. 
The 19th IARU Region 1 ARDF Championships will be September 9 - 15 at 
Kudowa Zdroj, Poland. Visiting competitors from the USA are welcome.

Korean Amateur Radio League will host the 9th IARU Region 3 ARDF 
Championships at Hongcheon Gangwon Province, September 1 - 6. Note that 
islands such as Guam and American Samoa are inside Region 3. Thus the 
ARRL, which represents hams in these islands, is a member society of 
IARU Region 3. This means that participants from anywhere in the USA 
and its territories aren't considered to be "visitors," but are 
eligible to be on the ARRL team at the Region 3 championships. If 
you're interested in traveling to Korea to be on Team USA for these 
championships, please contact me. A Letter of Intent to send a team is 
due to the Korean organizers by March 31. Be prepared to dig deeply 
into your wallet, because in addition to airfare overseas, the 
individual participation fee is US$600 plus transportation fee between 
the Vivaldi Park Ski Resort and Incheon/Seoul.

Lastly, the European Youth ARDF Championships will take place in Tri 
Studne, Czech Republic from June 12 - 16. The maximum age is 16 years 
(birthdays in 1997 and later). More information is at 
http://eyac2013.com.

73 and enjoy ARDF in 2013,
Joe Moell K0OV