This Covid-safe event ran for over 3 weeks for 4 hours a day, stretching from Jack first out the gates on Thursday 22nd October, through to Henk & Di on Saturday 7th October. I suspect this may be the longest foxhunt we’ve ever run?! Perhaps longer even than the US election. Of course this renders it a bit pointless to include the traditional reference to the state of the weather at the event.
Kristian has just pipped Geoff for the fastest time just under the 3/4 hour mark, but note the impressive minimal distance Geoff managed it in. However, we should note that Kristian had some issues using MapRunG, and was forced to return to his car part way though his run, as well as locating 3 of his transmitters by sight. As the transmitters had been very carefully hidden, as they were going to be out in the wilds for quite some time, this would have been particularly difficult. He also didn’t take out a paper map, complicating things for himself.
Darian, Pierre & Cameron, I’m told, also somehow forgot to use MapRun (?), so also had to eyeball locate some of their transmitters. I’m not sure I completely understand that, but anyway, Darian-et-al’s track was loaded up retrospectively. Unfortunately they were over the 90min time limit, so I had to mark down as overtime, but all their results are still shown. A welcome to first-timer, Cameron.
Jack was so keen he decided to have multiple goes at the event, finding a different set of 4 transmitters each attempt. On his first attempt, he was never able to hear TX#3, so after that I decided to swap TX#3 and TX#5 positions, as the latter was a much stronger TX. Jack returned a second time to check the new TX configuration, and then yet again on a later weekend to post his 2nd result, which I’ve shown at the bottom as unofficial.
Rod notes the event was an excellent start to his weekend, and he & Monica liked the course layout. Their course length is also excellent, only 400m longer than Geoff’s. Di mentioned that she & Henk might well have found all 5 transmitters under the time limit, if Henk hadn’t wanted to actually see all the transmitters (see above!), but as they were running a bit short on time decided to cut out the one over the other side of the creek. Good to know all the transmitters are still working fine after 3 weeks, as they went for a stroll on Saturday 7th.
The first event upload to MapRun didn’t successfully set it up as a Score event as wanted, but unfortunately the second attempt didn’t seem to either. I’ve therefore extracted the results here, taking into account those who eyeball located some TXs, and the TX location swap. Beware that the Track files linked will have TX5 & TX3 swapped still. Many thanks to Geoff for promptly doing the MapRun submission – if you can prepare a (correct), MapRun compatible, kml file for him detailing the TX locations, this is a lot of the work required done.
| Ashwood South Sprint ARDF Results | |||||||
| Name | Place | Txs | Track | Time | km | Age | When |
| Kris | 1 | 5: 5, 4, 1, 2, 3 | Track | 00:43:37 | 5.75 | M30-34 | 31/10/20 |
| Geoff | 2 | 5: 2, 3, 1, 4, 5 | Track | 00:45:48 | 3.78 | M65-69 | 26/10/20 |
| Ewen | 3 | 5: 2, 1, 4, 3, 5 | Track | 48:18:00 | 5.35 | M70-74 | 26/10/20 |
| Monica & Uncle Rod | 4 | 5: 3, 2, 1, 4, 5 | Track | 00:58:20 | 4.2 | W25-29 | 31/10/20 |
| Mark | 5 | 5: 4, 1, 3, 2, 5 | Track | 01:03:23 | 5.52 | M60-64 | 01/11/20 |
| Jack | 6 | 4: 2, 1, 3, 4 | Track | 00:59:18 | 5.18 | M65-69 | 22/10/20 |
| Doug | 7 | 4: 5, 2, 1, 4 | Track | 01:14:57 | 5.79 | M50-54 | 05/11/20 |
| Jenelle | 8 | 4: 5, 2, 1, 4 | Track | 01:16:52 | 6.11 | W65-69 | 26/10/20 |
| Henk & Di | 9 | 4: 5, 2, 3, 1 | Track | 01:27:18 | 5.62 | M70-74 | 07/11/20 |
| Jack (unofficial) | N/A | 4: 5, 4, 1, 3 | Track | 38:47:00 | 3.12 | M65-69 | 01/11/20 |
| Darian, Pierre & Cameron | O/T | 5: 3, 1, 4, 2, 5 | Track | 01:39:29 | 5.49 | M25-29 | 31/10/20 |
Here’s the actual transmitter locations:
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I never seemed to get a good bearing to No. 2 and somehow had placed it further south and west. Essentially went there and back via a very inefficient route from near the start and back.