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Saturday Jul 23, 2011 #
9 AM
ARDF 2m race 1:12:09 [4] *** 3.84 km (18:47 / km) +128m 16:06 / km
shoes: Nike Trail (Blue)
2m ARDF at Stanbery Park, set by k4bri. Dick and Marji also competed.
My order was 42531. Some very challenging transmitter placements. One was placed more-or-less at the focal point of a gooseneck stream bend (with earth bank as reflector), and it was very hard to figure out. I approached it directly in the major lobe, and I was getting signals so strong I thought I should be seeing a transmitter.
5 was another very hard one---Once I was in the circle it still took about ten minutes to find it. I saw Dick there, and I think he arrived one cycle before me. So with two people, it still took ten minutes---crazy.
I didn't take a mapboard or even a grease pencil, so I did everything by memory---I did okay. My biggest mistake was thinking 1 was NE of the spur when in fact it was to the SW. That probably cost me at least 10 minutes.
It was a good, hot day, and I really felt it. I was at the far end of the course,, basically at the lowest point, and I thought to myself, "You better take it easy." When I finished I drank 1L of ice cold water, and a glass of cool water. I didn't feel better until I finished all of that.
It was a really fun course on a humid day with a lot of really complicated ARDF.
I need to dig out a camelbak or something. I really could have used it today.
{Edit---The "Stanbery Park Trail" shown on Google Maps (click blue globe, above) has almost no connection with reality.}
My order was 42531. Some very challenging transmitter placements. One was placed more-or-less at the focal point of a gooseneck stream bend (with earth bank as reflector), and it was very hard to figure out. I approached it directly in the major lobe, and I was getting signals so strong I thought I should be seeing a transmitter.
5 was another very hard one---Once I was in the circle it still took about ten minutes to find it. I saw Dick there, and I think he arrived one cycle before me. So with two people, it still took ten minutes---crazy.
I didn't take a mapboard or even a grease pencil, so I did everything by memory---I did okay. My biggest mistake was thinking 1 was NE of the spur when in fact it was to the SW. That probably cost me at least 10 minutes.
It was a good, hot day, and I really felt it. I was at the far end of the course,, basically at the lowest point, and I thought to myself, "You better take it easy." When I finished I drank 1L of ice cold water, and a glass of cool water. I didn't feel better until I finished all of that.
It was a really fun course on a humid day with a lot of really complicated ARDF.
I need to dig out a camelbak or something. I really could have used it today.
{Edit---The "Stanbery Park Trail" shown on Google Maps (click blue globe, above) has almost no connection with reality.}
11 AM
ARDF Setting 25:00 [1] 2.03 km (12:21 / km) +87m 10:10 / km
shoes: Nike Trail (Blue)
Walked out to pick up the two most distant transmitters. After all that water, I was a little waterlogged at first, but after a few minutes I was fine.
I had heard a few bits of thunder in what looked like a sky filled with smallish cumulus clouds, but almost exactly at noon there was some louder thunder and then raindrops. It was a wonderful cool shower to be out in (luckily I had a hat to keep rain off my glasses). Lasted a good 30 or 45 minutes, and then no rain. The temperature was actually civilized until about 2pm, and then at 2:30 it was back to crazy hot.
I gotta cut the grass. I'm not looking forward to it at all. I'm going to wait as late as possible. I should do a J-J, and go see a movie right now...
I had heard a few bits of thunder in what looked like a sky filled with smallish cumulus clouds, but almost exactly at noon there was some louder thunder and then raindrops. It was a wonderful cool shower to be out in (luckily I had a hat to keep rain off my glasses). Lasted a good 30 or 45 minutes, and then no rain. The temperature was actually civilized until about 2pm, and then at 2:30 it was back to crazy hot.
I gotta cut the grass. I'm not looking forward to it at all. I'm going to wait as late as possible. I should do a J-J, and go see a movie right now...