Training Log Archive: mikeminium

Event: US ARDF Championships (Radio Orienteering)
 

Ten control Fox-O at Peaceful Valley Scout Ranch. What this amounted to was a ten control yellow / or range course, with an Easter egg hunt once you got to the circle. The micro transmitters were weak and my receiver was so bad that I could only pick up the signal when I got within 2 to 4 meters. I lost a couple minutes on one control and probably 4 minutes on another, both because of searching for the transmitter, which in at least the one case was actually outside the circle. Probably only one 10 second or so orienteering mistake. I finished third. First place beat me by 58 seconds; second place by 15 seconds. Oh, to have had a decent receiver!

Borrowed Dick's Ukrainian receiver and went back out to try it out. Now I could hear the controls from 20-40 meters. That would have saved me at least five minutes on the course.

Control pickup.