Discussion: czech music video

this may have been posted before, but in case it hasn't, http://my.opera.com/dlabaja/blog/show.dml/530206
features radio orienteering! whoever thought orienteering could be this romantical?

Wow. That's a keeper. I can't believe someone thought that up. I wish I knew what they were saying.

"what they were saying."

Doesn't matter! That's so cool.

It is, even without knowing the lyrics... but I have this feeling that maybe it would *even better* if I understood czech.

My first thought was, "Well, that's really over the top. Anybody who's worried about the geek factor in orienteering can at least take solace in that at least we're not as geeky as that!"

Unfortunately, my nerdy background revealed itself when I realized that I had noticed a bunch of technical details that were in error...

I have a world champion in radio orienteering in here who happened to be Czech and after laughing his guts out on this video he said he does not recognize any of these clowns in the video

some explanation of the lyrics:
"it is funny love song
Tomas Dlabaja says:
and really very connected with the video
Tomas Dlabaja says:
i dont know if it was original idea of singer, but one very old machinge for making sound waves was called RUBIKON and they sing something like through the soundwaves of Rubikon...
Tomas Dlabaja says:
i will find you
Tomas Dlabaja says:
but the CD is also called Rubikon, it means more than only radio machine
Tomas Dlabaja says:
there is plenty of association in the text"

>Unfortunately, my nerdy background revealed itself when I realized that I had noticed a bunch of technical details that were in error...

N1EJJ??

:-)

Meet KB3FHH

W8VAL is around here also

I wonder how many orienteers are also Hams

The video uses a variety of receivers (the antenna thingie they're carrying around), but the only type I'm sure is real is the short yellow one (The Compact 145), which is made by Jiří Mareček in the Czech Republic.

The big problem is that no one seems to be using the receiver correctly. Usually you sweep it around at waist level, or more commonly, over your head. And you use the antenna horizontally (99% of the time), but you often run with it vertical when you're not using it. Sometimes you use it almost continously, and other times you just use it a few seconds each minute.

Radio Orienteering is really fun. Especially near the start, there is so much to do you're in task overload. It's much easier to lose contact than in regular orienteering. Most orienteers have the fitness and navigation skills already, and the radio part is easy to pick up. The orienteering skill is probably the most difficult part to learn.

Yeah, I hear that W8VAL is a former US Champ in Radio-O.

N1EJJ??

Oh, god, what, did you look me up in some FCC directory or something? Yes, I have a ham license that I got for work-related reasons back in 1987. But I forgot what little I knew as soon as I took the test (particularly the morse code stuff), I've never owned any radio gear, and I've never actually used my license, other than when John Pascal handed me a radio at VWC97 and I stood there holding onto it for a half-hour or so. (I might start using it soon, though, as I believe hang glider pilots communicate on ham frequencies.)

The technical details I was referring to had more to do with the soldering -- I regularly get involved with that on a professional basis.

I wasn't sure what technical details you were referring to so I looked it up out of curiousity :-) I don't do a whole lot with my license either. Some other friends had them in college so I got mine too and we would chat on handheld 2 meter transceivers. A few guys at work have them as well, it is fairly common among TV engineers. I would like to try radio orienteering some time, just for the heck of it, but don't have the equipment.

When did they change the name to radio orienteering? Last I knew it was called ARDF (Amateur Radio Direction Finding). But admittedly it's been a while.

That's what I call it, because I hate the term "ARDF", which is not very descriptive. I don't like the term "Orienteering" either, but I guess we're stuck with both of them. I try to use "ARDF" only among ARDFers.

Here's a youtube video called "Radioorienteering Beer Relay". It's by Jasiek, from Poland, who runs the website radioorienteering.info. He hasn't posted much lately, and he's got some spam issues with his comments.

The video is a lot of bouncing around, but it does combine orienteering and drinking beer, which seems to be a common theme around here.

Everyone should try a full ARDF event once to make classic orienteering seem simple again!

Yes, ADRF is correct, but I like the name Radio-O better...
I think my classic orienteering experience hampered being able to do ADRF/Radio-O well. Or maybe, it was just my nature. I couldn't deal with not knowing on the map what I was heading for, so I was extremely tentative.
The thing I noticed was that they were scanning with their gear before the start. In a real meet, your equipment in embargoed.

In Russia it is called "Fox Hunt"! I like it - less degree of nerdiness comparing to "Radio Orienteering" or just plain "Orienteering" :)

lady was very foxy

No coincidence. The name on the doorbell: Liskova. Liska in czech means a fox

Yeah, I think that's what was so charming about the video.

Neither the guy nor the girl fit the typical MTV music video image of attractiveness...think Britney Spears or Brad Pitt.

Neither the guy nor the girl fit the typical MTV music video image of attractiveness...

I don't know about that... sure, the dude was kind of dorky looking (but in a sort of adorable way) but the chick was certainly foxy (in a "i'm smart enough to manipulate you" kind of way).

Yeah, like in a "She Blinded Me With Science" sorta way.

Nothin' wrong with that. Who doesn't dig a science nerd chick?

Who doesn't dig a science nerd chick?

No kiddin' Christina...brains AND beauty have gotta appeal to most orienteering men.

But being met at the door with a glowing soldering iron...?

And someone is trying to tell me that this sport is not for only eggheads :)

She'd have a lot more techy nerd cred if she was armed with some real soldering equipment instead of that preposterous gun.

Preposterous is right...that thing functioned more like an arc welder, particularly as seen from down below.

But perhaps we're over-analyzing this charming love story, and to Sergey's point, should give the director a bit of poetic license.

Poetic license, just like with "Crazy Choice"...

I'm going to guess that most guys would agree that the technical innacuracies do not detract from the foxiness of Ms. Foxy.

equipment by itself is very durable - warm ups in a couple seconds, had one back in 80s.

I wasn't talking about her foxiness. If I had been, I probably would have said something about the BCGs.