{"id":2527,"date":"2009-03-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-12T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beta.iaru-r2.org\/2009-iaru-region-2-ardf-championships\/"},"modified":"2009-03-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-12T23:00:00","slug":"2009-iaru-region-2-ardf-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/2009-iaru-region-2-ardf-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"2009 <span class=\"caps\">IARU<\/span> Region 2&nbsp;<span class=\"caps\">ARDF<\/span> Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/r2-ardf.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-317\" title=\"r2-ardf\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/r2-ardf.jpg\" alt width=\"500\" height=\"365\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 2009 <span class=\"caps\">IARU<\/span> Region 2&nbsp;Championships in Amateur Radio Direction Finding (<span class=\"caps\">ARDF<\/span>) will be held 5\u2009\u2014\u20097&nbsp;June this year near Boston, Massachusetts, <span class=\"caps\">USA<\/span>. <span class=\"caps\">ARDF<\/span> is a&nbsp;sport similar to Orienteering, where participants search for radio transmitters in a&nbsp;large forest with the aid of a&nbsp;direction-finding receiver, a&nbsp;map and a&nbsp;compass. Competitors from throughout Region 2&nbsp;and visitors from other Regions are welcome. Since participants are only operating a&nbsp;receiver a&nbsp;ham license is not required. Separate courses are held on 2m and on&nbsp;80m.<\/p>\n<p>Further information about the event is available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.homingin.com\/farsnews.html\">http:\/\/\u200bwww\u200b.homingin\u200b.com\/\u200bf\u200ba\u200br\u200bs\u200bn\u200be\u200bw\u200bs\u200b.\u200bh\u200btml<\/a>. Photos and reports from previous events are available from the same site. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ardf-r2.org\">Region 2&nbsp;<span class=\"caps\">ARDF<\/span> web site<\/a> has further information about <span class=\"caps\">ARDF<\/span> (in multiple languages) and&nbsp;links.<\/p>\n<p>Because <span class=\"caps\">ARDF<\/span> is not as developed in Region 2&nbsp;as it is in the other Regions, the competition fees will be waived for newcomers and those coming from outside North America. There will be some time available for training. A&nbsp;limited number of receivers are usually available for loan: please contact the Region 2&nbsp;<span class=\"caps\">ARDF<\/span> Coordinator, Dale Hunt, <span class=\"caps\">WB6BYU<\/span> (<a href=\"mailto:wb6byu@arrl.net\">wb6byu@\u200barrl.\u200bnet<\/a>) to make arrangements or to ask further questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2009 <span class=\"caps\">IARU<\/span> Region 2&nbsp;Championships in Amateur Radio Direction Finding (<span class=\"caps\">ARDF<\/span>) will be held 5\u2009\u2014\u20097&nbsp;June this year near Boston, Massachusetts, <span class=\"caps\">USA<\/span>. <span class=\"caps\">ARDF<\/span> is a&nbsp;sport similar to Orienteering, where participants search for radio transmitters in a&nbsp;large forest with the aid of a&nbsp;direction-finding receiver, a&nbsp;map and a&nbsp;compass. Competitors from throughout Region 2&nbsp;and visitors from other Regions are&nbsp;[\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}