14th ARDF World Championship

This weekend, the RSGB competitors in the 14th ARDF World Championships fly out to Korea for the competition.

Team Captain is David Williams, M3WDD who competes in the M40 class which comprises men between the ages of 40 and 49. The other team member is Robert Vickers G3ORI who runs in M60.

Five transmitters are hidden in a forest and competitors use a receiver and directional antenna to locate them.

At each transmitter is located an electronic timing unit and the competitor inserts a memory chip into this and the identity of the transmitter and the time of arrival of the competitor is written to the chip.

You can follow the competition through the website www.2008ardf.org/ and it is anticipated that near real time results will be posted.

The 144MHz races are on Thursday 4th September and the 3.5MHz races on Saturday 6th.

Korea is eight hours ahead of UK time. Checking the website at breakfast time on the 4th and 6th will enable you to keep up to date with the results.

In case you thought the RSGB team was disappointingly small, you need to know that the competitors pay all their own costs to participate

Source: RSGB