[ARDF] ARDF Digest, Vol 132, Issue 2

Wed Nov 7 15:07:59 GMT 2018

I would remove FoxO from ARDF completely and replace it with Sprint Relay.

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>    1. Report from IARU R1 Ad-Hoc Committee (Kenneth E. Harker)
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> From: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker at kenharker.com>
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> Subject: [ARDF] Report from IARU R1 Ad-Hoc Committee
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>      For those who are interested:
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>      At the IARU Region 1 ARDF Working Group meeting in Sokcho, Korea in
> September, 2018, two ad-hoc committees were formed to discuss issues
> related to the rules and make recommendations to the Working Group for
> future potential adoption.  One of those two committees was formed to look
> into "Information given to the competitors, consequences and impact to the
> fairness of the ARDF: the ad-hoc group chaired by LZ3NN was established?
> (agenda item 12.2 in the 2 Sep 2018 meeting minutes).  Viktor LZ3NN
> recently submitted the Working Group's recommendations (below).
>
>      Personally, I don?t think any of these are especially controversial
> except possibly the implementation of the first one, but as always you can
> reach out to me if you think Region 2 should bring something up before
> these are voted upon.
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> Transmitters
> 27.3: The current text says " All transmissions shall be monitored and
> recorded by the organiser.?  The core concern is that organizers should not
> be allowed to have a transmitter go silent or have major issues for a long
> period of time during a competition.  I think the idea is that if the
> competitors can hear the transmitters in the start area you have a whole
> lot of ears making sure things are not failing.  This would presumably give
> everyone some slight extra information pre-start (which transmitters are
> loud and which are not) but everyone would get the same information so it?s
> presumably fair.  This is one I think could invite a lot of debate.
>
> 27.10: The current rule says "The flag shall be close to the transmitter
> antenna and not more than 4 meters away. The flag shall be visible to
> competitors when they reach the transmitter antenna. ?  This was directly
> related, I think, to a DQ in Korea due to frustration at sightlines to the
> control flag.  I don?t anticipate this being controversial.
>
> Finish and time-keeping
> 29.3: The current rule states: " The finish line shall be at least 3 m
> wide and shall be at right angle to the direction of the run-in. The exact
> position of the finish line shall be obvious to approaching competitors.
> Competitors in the finish corridor may run only in the direction from the
> beacon towards the finish line.?  I don?t think this will be controversial
> either.  As organizer could always request a jury exception in cases where
> maybe arriving at the finish corridor from the ?wrong? direction is either
> not possible or requires one to go out of bounds (such as placing the
> corridor on a bridge or something).
>
> Sprint Rules
> S7.1: The current text reads: "The start corridor is the corridor that
> runs away from the start. The end shall be clearly marked and only after
> this point can the competitor start searching for the transmitters. The
> start corridor shall not be longer than 400 metres.?  So this would
> establish a minimum length as well as the maximum.   This actually gives
> course setters better flexibility since they do not have to anticipate a
> fast runner leaving the corridor prior to hearing al the controls for the
> first time.
>
> Foxoring Rules
> F26.5: The current rule states: "Competitors shall enter the pre-start
> area not earlier than FIVE MINUTES before their own start. Competitors
> receive maps after their start, at the starting line or at the indicated
> point within the starting corridor.?  This change would remove the option
> of the organizer to hand the map after the start (say, laying on a table
> you reach after your time starts).  I suspect there is strong support for
> this change.
>
> F27.3: The current rule states: "Each transmitter shall be clearly audible
> during the whole competition at its nominal position marked on the map AND
> at the distance of 30m from its real position. Transmitters shall NOT be
> audible at the distance of 250 m from their real positions. The finish
> beacon operates at normal power and therefore shall be clearly audible
> during the whole competition from the start point.?  The idea with this
> change is to prevent an organizer from putting all the Foxoring controls in
> the center of the marked map location.  I don?t think this will be
> controversial.
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> 27.3 All transmissions shall be monitored to the competitors at the start
> line and and recorded by the organiser.
> (This is an additional free of charge and a very effective control of the
> work of transmitters. As we see in many cases the referees don?t  quickly
> react  on a missing tranmission.
> e.g. in Korea the antenna of the TX #2 at the first lap of Sprint fell
> down onto the ground and lay there for 40 minutes. If there was a control
> from the competitors at the start line, they would tell that immedeately to
> the referee at the start and the antenna would be up in a minute, certainly
> not in 40 minutes.)
> 27.10 The flag shall be no closer than 3 metres to a thick tree or any
> other object which closes the visibility of it.
> (The flag should be visible from all directions, not to be hidden behind
> any object because we don?t know where will a competitor come from. This is
> more important than only the distance from the transmitter.)
> 29.3 ?..The finish corridor shall be well runnable outside at least along
> one side of it.
> (Certainly not as in Korea 2018)
> S7.1 The starting corridor shall be 300-400 m long.
> (So that the fastest competitor was not able to cover it in 1 minute. This
> will give chance to everybody to listen to all TXs and then start smirching
> them).
> F26.5 The competitor receives the map in the pre-start area 2 minutes
> before the start.
> This will remove the stress of the competitor, gives him/her a chance of
> choosing the right decision (like in Foxoring)
>  F27.3 Each transmitter shall be located at the distance not less than
> 50m. from its nominal position.
> (As we see now in ARDF the competitors from the orienteering take all the
> top places in Foxoring when the transmitters are located close to their
> nominal position. This is because they run pure orienteering with a
> primitive seeking the nonstop working transmitters. Any radioamateur will
> always be behind them. When the transmitter is enough away from the nominal
> position, the competitor will need  experience  in tuning to the frequency
> of a weak signal and this is the privilege of the ARDFer. Otherwise we will
> soon loose one part of ARDF. Foxoring will go to the orienteering side).
>
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> --
> Kenneth E. Harker WM5R
> kenharker at kenharker.com
> http://www.kenharker.com/
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