[FoxHunt] ARDF and orienteering crossover

[Jon Sletvold SICI]

Hello

It's an interresting subject, and our (current) concluiton in LA ARDF is
that there it's a greater potesional in recruiting orienterring runners than
hams:

I think Norway has a number of 5000 registered hams and 30 000 registered
orientering runners. It should be a greater possibility to recruit people
from the orienteering clubs, but this is not an easy task as the Norwegians
has a kind of religious attitude to the sporting or leasure activity in the
nature. We didn't like the introduction of skaiting in cross-country skiing,
and beware of that crow who split his skis in an inverted V while performing
his ski-jump:-)

Never the less, we're trying to inform orienteering runners of an
alternative that can be combined with normal orienttering. I have my self
did start with orienteering when I was 12 years, stopped for a few years and
began with radio-o when i was 26. Now I've also made a come back into normal
orienteering because I've disovered that I needed training to track my
movements on the map using more details than roads and rivers. Radio-o
provides you with the option to run very fast straight forward for the
transmitter, and after a few houndred meters your might be lost. You'll
always find the transmitters, you've got the radio, but the chosen track
will not be the optimal as I've discoverd a few times strugling to run in
dense vegetation while the path was just 50m in paralell.

I think we should be recruiting and inform about radio-o towards the
orienteering clubs. Prefferably a joint cooperation as we and they need
maps, and you can share time taking equipment. Radio-o is also an oportunity
to those (like me) who doesn't find all details on the map, and get a little
bored in a track with 18 postmarks to find. It's another dimension to
orienteering.

Regards

Jon la9nga