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[Melb-ARDF] Did we cream the Yanks ? (China #3)
by Bruce 15 Oct '00

15 Oct '00

Yes, well that's the question you all want to know the answer to ! ...and at the risk of being a spoiler, the answer is Yes (we think). Some rough results (I will confirm more later) are: Adam 14th-ish (an excellent result for all 5 tx's on a longer course than we've ever experienced before Me (Bruce) 24-ish (last I looked....) Bryan 43-ish We do know Adam's time beats Yuri (the USA previous world champion from Hungary), and my time beats the other USA seniors, so it's looking good -:) Now, we will have some pictures for you. Peter Fraser has volunteered to put them up on his site, I have emailed them to him. Peter will hopefully announce where to find them when he has ! The pictures might lag the story a bit. Hopefly I will catch up eventually ! Today was a 5am wake up (groan), breakfast & hopefully grabbing all the gear we needed & out to the buses. Off we go is a mammoth porcession, complete with Police escort and traffic priority provided. There were police holding off traffic even on a freeway at one point so we could do a strange exit up an entrance lane ! All very impressive, and at the same time the scale of it all a bit unnerving. Off the freeways we headed down bumpy roads through small Chinese villages about 1.5 hours out of Nanjing (don't ask me where !). The villagers were all out in force to witness the spectacle of the bus cavalcade. There were even ARDF posters plastered to some of the walls. We arrived at the destination out behind yet another small village. All the local children were out to see the foreigners. Bryan was first out with the 6th group. Groups are let out at 5 minute intervals. I had about a 2 hour wait till I went out, Adam went last about an hour or so later. The sun came out today and it ended up being quite warm and clear. Lucky I happened to pop the sunscreen in my bag. I was in the same group as my Belgium team leader friend, Maurice. I was number 001, but he lucked James Bond - 007. The course itself was quite long and hilly. There were areas where it was very slow movement, as well as areas of closely spaced plantation that was possible to move through reasonably quickly, and a number of tracks, but some areas of the map were a bit inaccurate in ths tracks (some new tracks were there, and of some old tracks shown there was simply no sign and had to be bush-bashed. Every 2m TX was atop a significant hill. Sometimes you could tell the transmitter wasn't far away, but to get there was quite a different matter ! Unfortunately I did the transmitters in a non-ideal order, having to backtrack at the end to get one, but in retrospect it wasn't too bad a route choice. It just toome a while. I had about 15 minutes left of the 130, and I decided to abort getting that last transmitter, and turned around to head for the finish. Later I found out I was less than 200m from the transmitter, but the time I didn't feel I could risk being late (which means instant disqualification). I had some trouble with my smart card at the readers, especially at the last two checkpoints. I personally would not recommend this system ! Now I have to go and talk about my post tour details. I will give you more results when we know them, as well as the fastest times (and some pictures). Bye for now Bruce ----------------------------------------------------------------- -------- ***** Remember, an out of tune piano makes noise, not music! ***** call, (805) 966-7060 . E-MAIL: dennis(a)rain.org . *** Bye from the Paradise Playground of the Pacific Beaches. *** Dennis Schwendtner *** WB6OBB *** *** http://www.rain.org/~dennis *** *** Schwendtner Piano and Service *** WB6OBB repeater web-site ***

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2M Competition
by Freyra＠aol.com 15 Oct '00

15 Oct '00

Hi Barb and Dennis, I ended up not doing as well as I would have liked, but considering the course, I did okay. Below is a short report of the competition. *********************** Today was the 2Meter competition. We left the hotel about 6:45AM for a one hour drive to the competition site. I was lucky and ended up with a starting time 2 hours and 25 minutes after the first competitors left. One thing different about this competition from other competitions was that we would be using electronic scoring. This would be done with a small credit card sized circuit that would be inserted into a reader that would automatically record the time. It really worked well and I found it easier to use that a punch card. After picking up the map and equipment, I headed out to the starting area. At the start signal, I headed out North along the trail and started listening. I had the rough location of transmitters 1 though 4 in the first five minutes (I didn't need to find transmitter #5.) It seemed like transmitter #4 was the first one to find, but I didn't find a trail heading that way until I got clost to #3. While I knew it was longer, I picked off #3 which was at the top of a hill a couple of hundred meters high. Heading down the hill, I passed through a small village on the way to #4. After picking off #4, I went back to the village to a trail that went in the direction of #2. #2 turned out to be about 2 Km and in the process of running, I fell and ended up with a very bloody hand from a relatively small cut. About 15 minutes later, I got to transmitter #2 and climbed slowly up the steep grade to find it. At this point, time was running out and I headed back to #1 which was also in the same direction as the finish. As I was running along the road, I passed #1 but I was in real danger of being disqualified for being over time, so I passed it and headed to the finish. Running along the finish corrodor, I punched in with 15 seconds to spare. Quite a number of people did not find all 4 transmitters and I ended up at about 38th place in a total of about 50+ competitors. While it certainly was not where I wanted to be, it was better than I did in Hungary so at least there was some improvement. It was indicated the results would be available in an ASCII file, and I will forward that as soon as I can get it. Tomorrow is a local tour in the morning and shopping during the afternoon. The 80M competition will be held on Tuesday. ***** Remember, an out of tune piano makes noise, not music! ***** call, (805) 966-7060 . E-MAIL: dennis(a)rain.org . *** Bye from the Paradise Playground of the Pacific Beaches. *** Dennis Schwendtner *** WB6OBB *** *** http://www.rain.org/~dennis *** *** Schwendtner Piano and Service *** WB6OBB repeater web-site ***

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FIRST REPORT FROM K6OV ABOUT ARDF IN CHINA!
by Dennis Schwendtner 15 Oct '00

15 Oct '00

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[ardf-socal] Team USA is in China now
by Homingin＠aol.com 14 Oct '00

14 Oct '00

As I write this, it's 4 AM Sunday morning in Nanjing, China. I'm not there, but ARDF Team USA is. I hope the team is sleeping well, because Sunday is the day of the two-meter competition in the ARDF World Championships. Not much in the way of reports from the team so far, but the first team photo from Nanjing has arrived. It's posted on my Web site, URL below. There are over 350 competitors from 26 countries, plus team leaders, trainers, referees and organisers. On Saturday, our team participated in the opening Ceremony which was on an island in the middle of the lake outside the host hotel. Will also post any other Team USA reports and photos as received, so keep checking the site. 73, Joe Moell K0OV USA ARDF Coordinator http://www.homingin.com ***** Remember, an out of tune piano makes noise, not music! ***** call, (805) 966-7060 . E-MAIL: dennis(a)rain.org . *** Bye from the Paradise Playground of the Pacific Beaches. *** Dennis Schwendtner *** WB6OBB *** *** http://www.rain.org/~dennis *** *** Schwendtner Piano and Service *** WB6OBB repeater web-site ***

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*SECOND EDITION OF ARDF FROM THE AUSTRALIANS!
by Dennis Schwendtner 14 Oct '00

14 Oct '00

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[Melb-ARDF] China opens with fanfare ! (#2)
by Bruce 14 Oct '00

14 Oct '00

Well here's the 2nd installment. I can't make this long as we have to arise early (well 5am sounds early to me!) for the 2m competiton tommorow. Only Bryan actaully starts anywhere near the first groups. He is in group 6. I am in group 26 (so that's 26 * 5 minutes wait for me) and Adam starts last in 43. Well this morning was a relaxed start.The other two were able to do a decent amount of 2m and 80m practice. I was held up in the team leaders meeting (only some of the team leaders actually compete as well) with interminable questions which did seem to go on for hours. I was able to establish that the distances between transmitters will be adhered to in this comp. 750m from the start minimum, and 400m between minimum. What seems a long time limit of 130 minutes has been set. Might be a long course ! Now I did promise pictures. Well I do have them all ready to upload, but for some reason I seem to be having ftp difficulties. So not tonight. This afternoon I had a chance to at least test my equipment worked on two tranmitters just outside the hotel. After that it was all into a huge queue of buses (22 buses at least) to get to the Opening Ceremony which was on the island in the middle of the lake outside the hotel. There are over 350 competitors at the world championships from 26 countries, plus team leaders, trainers, referees and organisers. This is a BIG event to stage. I have some good photos of the amazing dancers and acrobats. Some so young (almost pre-school) it seems hard to imagine it is possible. You will just have to wait for the pictures I'm afraid. (If I can't get ftp to work, I might look for a kind volunteer to put them up for me somewhere, tell me where, and I'll send them by email.....anyone ?). As far as I know the link from here is fast. The team leaders were presented with floral arrangements and the whole thing was like a mini-olympic opening ceremony (complete with marching band). This evening after some preparation for the event tommorow, I had to go to the team leaders banquet (the others had a normal plebebian banquet -:) Actually the hotel food is very good.) Team Leaders banquet was a lavish affair with that evil rice wine, bottomless drinks and a seemingly endless processions of delicacies. Very nice indeed. I have got to know Maurice, the Belgium team leader quite well (you see, Belgium is next from Australia in the alphabet !) since we end up sitting next to each other. Also a university student sat at our table to help translate. She is studying languages, in particular English, so with so many different English accents it would be a good test of her new abilities. Anyway, I must go to bed. Don't want to disturb Kurt too much -:) Cheers, Bruce, VK3TJN ----------------------------------------------------------------- -------- ***** Remember, an out of tune piano makes noise, not music! ***** call, (805) 966-7060 . E-MAIL: dennis(a)rain.org . *** Bye from the Paradise Playground of the Pacific Beaches. *** Dennis Schwendtner *** WB6OBB *** *** http://www.rain.org/~dennis *** *** Schwendtner Piano and Service *** WB6OBB repeater web-site ***

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Hello from China (fwd)
by Dennis Schwendtner 14 Oct '00

14 Oct '00

Hi All, Here is a note from Marvin from China, I have just forwarded his message. Skip all the signature from my e-mail. Thanks, ***** Remember, an out of tune piano makes noise, not music! ***** call, (805) 966-7060 . E-MAIL: dennis(a)rain.org . *** Bye from the Paradise Playground of the Pacific Beaches. *** Dennis Schwendtner *** WB6OBB *** *** http://www.rain.org/~dennis *** *** Schwendtner Piano and Service *** WB6OBB repeater web-site *** ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 20:32:18 EDT From: Freyra(a)aol.com To: dennis(a)rain.org, johnston(a)sbcc.net Subject: Hello from China Hi Dennis and Barb, I am using Bob Freys AOL account to send this as it seems much quicker than telneting into my account. All went well for the trip over, and it could not have been a smoother trip! We got into Nanjing about 1:00 PM and got to bed about 2:00. After getting up at 6:15AM or so, we went for Breakfast and am sending this from Bob's room (he has a computer and Internet connection in his room! The schedule for today is a practice session to check out our equipment at 10:00 AM, lunch from noon to 1:30 and the opening cerimonies at 3:50 PM. All for now, and I'll fire off more as it becomes available. Marvin

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* MESSAGE FROM THE AUSTRALIA ARDF TEAM FROM CHINA!
by Dennis Schwendtner 13 Oct '00

13 Oct '00

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Fw: JOTA - Satigny Scout Centre, Geneva
by W6YN Don Milbury 13 Oct '00

13 Oct '00

Hi! Jamboree on the Air for the Scouts takes place next weekend (20-22nd October). There will be many stations active around the world, many now using slowscan. One such station will be the World Scout Bureau, operating from the Satigny Scout Centre, on the outskirts of Geneva. callsign will be HB2S and the station will be active from 2200GMT on the Friday night. Equipment is likely to be an FT920, 100watts to either a 3 ele tribander, or G5RV, depending on band and who gets to the aerials first! The station will be active on voice around the Scout freqs on all bands from 80mtrs to 2mtrs. All calls appreciated. Look forward to seeing you all next week 73 de Frank, M0AEU ______________________________________________________ Amateur Radio - If you're not having fun, you are not doing it right! The Official ARRL Santa Barbara Section Web Site: http://www.qsl.net/arrlsb E-mail your questions to: ad6ad(a)arrl.net __________________________________________________________

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[ARDF] Team Ozzie Lands in China
by Bruce 13 Oct '00

13 Oct '00

Hi all, Bruce here from the Australian ARDF team in China. If you'd like to see future installments of this bulletin, I'll ask you to subscribe to the melb-ardf for the duration (only this first posting will go to foxlist). This is because this is likely to be an very biassed account of events, with dollops of parochialism, so I'm noy going to subject everyone to it if they don't want to ! (Hey, is it a co-incidence my name is "Bruce" also ??) You can subscribe to melb ardf by sending message (in the body) containing subscribe melb-ardf to majordomo(a)planet.net.au There will be pictures too ! They will be uploaded to a web-site somewhere and the reports will point at them. Coming soon...... [My ICQ seems to have died temporarily, but when I get it going again you can message the Australian team direct on 32015991] Anyway, on with the story; I have just got back from the team leaders meeting. Australia is first alphaetically so I was first to pick a number out of a paper bag to determine our team start positions for the 2m event. It also meant I was last (had no choice!) for the 80m competition draw. We got 8 and 18 respectively. This doesn't mean a great deal at the end of the day since it only determines the start group for the first competitor of a country. The others are spread through the field. By the way, there are 26 countries in this world competition. Only the USA team didn't seem to be at full strength, still missing their team leader Dale and some others. There are varying numbers of competitors for each country. We have only a team of 3 in the Senior (Open division). Some of you may recall my mention of Kurt, from Belgium, in my previous missives from Korea. Well it turns out I'm rooming with Kurt. Today it was warm, with occasional rain. We travelled by Bus from Shanghai to Nanjing, a distance of about 400km by bus with the Yugoslavians and Bulgarians (and a couple of Yanks). There will be some photos later, but one thing becomes obvious as you travel: you never really get out in what we'd call the country. Near Shanghai it is dead flat, and only late in the journey did we start to see some hills which surround Nanjing. There is almost always a building (usually a block of flats) to be seen, and ususally a continueous row. Otherwise there are rice fields, canals and dams and occasional other crops. Very little ground is left to waste The Hotel in Nanjing is excellent, and after some teething troubles we now have permenent ethernet (hey this is better than at home!!). After our arrival here we went out for what turned out to be quite a long walk around the nearby lake. There is an old city wall which circled old Nanjing which borders the lake (see photo soon -:)) Caught up with some friends from Korea and Townsville. Yes, Jack, madam Butterfly is back. At the meeting we were shown the electonic tagging system they will be using for the ARDF events. Each competitor has to carry a Smart Card around and insert in the reader when they find a transmitters. The times are stored on the card. They aren't too worried about rain, but point out sweat might cause problems with the reader. Hmmm, not quite up to Sport-Ident standards, but we'll see how it goes ! Tommorow we have what is called a Model event. It isn't really, since it will be on completely differnet terrain to the actual events, but it does give a chance to make sure our gear still works. They have scheduled a team leaders meeting at the same time !! Obviously there aren't too many team leaders like myself who also compete, so I hope there will still be enough time after for me to test my gear. That's all for now. Feel free to ask any questions. Cheers, Bruce, VK3TJN ----------------------------------------------------------------- -------- To un-subscribe from ardf-list, send requests to: majordomo(a)planet.net.au with the body of the message stating: unsubscribe ardf- list Please send postings to: ardf-list(a)planet.net.au Problems to: owner-ardf-list(a)planet.net.au ----------------------------------------------------------------- -------- *****.*****... ***DS!*****... ***** Remember, an out of tune piano makes noise, not music! ***** call, (805) 966-7060 . E-MAIL: dennis(a)rain.org . *** Bye from the Paradise Playground of the Pacific Beaches. *** Dennis Schwendtner *** WB6OBB *** *** http://www.rain.org/~dennis *** *** Schwendtner Piano and Service *** WB6OBB repeater web-site ***

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