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Home of Radio Orienteering and all RadioSports!

Upcoming events:

Maple Ridge ARDF – 2m band ARDF Saturday, October 15, 2011 – 10:00am
Location: Rolley Lake Provincial Park, GPS at the park gate: Long : -122.38008 W (-122° 22’ 48’’ W), Lat : 49.24122 N (49° 14’ 28’’ N)

Foxes: 5 foxes, 1 beacon, all of them 2m FM

How to get there: From maple Ridge take Dewdney Trunk Road, drive east 16 km and turn left on Bell Street. Drive to the end.
Note: Bell Street is left from Dewdney Trunk Road, but on the right is Yeo Street. So when you look at the right side when looking for Bell, you might miss it. But there is a big sign “Rolley Lake Park” that you cannot miss.

Everyone is welcome to compete or just watch and have fun. We have a few spare 2m fox receivers on first come first serve basis.

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Radio Orienteering (or Radio Direction Finding) is a sport of skill in finding hidden objects. It’s similar to Geo Caching, but instead of using a GPS we use radio receivers and orienteering skills to find the location of hidden radio transmitters. It’s a great way to learn how to navigate in the woods with a map and compass and a fine way to spend a sunny day exploring your parks and forests.

Everyone is welcome to participate in our events. You don’t need to have any radio experience, or even your amateur radio license to hunt!

To participate in our events you will need some sort of radio receiver with a signal level indicator. Many participants use a radio receiver (with signal strength indicator) capable of receiving in the 140-150 MHz (2 meter) radio band. Scanners and 2 meter amateur radio handhelds combined with an attenuator and directional antenna are a great way to get started.

If you enjoy building electronic equipment, there are many low cost kits and circuit designs you can use to build your own equipment. There is also a variety of pre-built equipment.

In this age of cellphones, Internet, and cheap consumer electronics, many of us lose interest in how things work. Radio orienteering provides an opportunity for Do It Yourself construction and experimentation, fun, exercise, fresh air, beautiful scenery, map-reading, socializing, messing around to try to change the laws of physics, and lots of laughs.

ARDF Team Canada journey at The 15th World ARDF Championship in Croatia, 13-18 Sept. 2010 at :
http://bcradiosport.blogspot.com/

Official web site of the championship:
http://www.ardf2010.com
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