[ARDF] Sprints and Foxoring added to USA Championships

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 Beginning with the 2012 ARDF World Championships in Serbia, two new events are being added:? sprints and foxoring.? The sprint competition is a short dual-course five-fox 80-meter ARDF run that's intended to be a demonstration for the public.? Foxoring is a combination of classic orienteering and direction-finding in which the competitors use orienteering skills to navigate to specific locations on the competition map where they will be able to receive and locate an 80 meter fox transmitter signal.

Plans are under way to include these two new events at the 2012 USA ARDF Championships in southern California for demonstration and training.? ARDF Team USA members for the main ARDF events in Serbia will be chosen from the regular 2m and 80m competitions only.? Results of the sprint and foxoring sessions at Mt. Laguna will not influence the 2012 team selection for main WC ARDF events.? However, the newest international rules permit nations to have additional team members just for the WC sprint and foxoring events, so it is possible for USA to add members to its team to compete in those events only.

Detailed information about ARDF sprints and foxoring is now on this page of my "Homing In Web site:

http://www.homingin.com/sprints.html

73,
Joe Moell K0OV