{"id":2576,"date":"2010-07-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-30T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beta.iaru-r2.org\/ardf-in-ohio\/"},"modified":"2010-07-31T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-30T22:00:00","slug":"ardf-in-ohio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/ardf-in-ohio\/","title":{"rendered":"<span class=\"caps\">ARDF<\/span> in&nbsp;Ohio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/daycare2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-981\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/daycare2.jpg\" alt=\"ARDF en Ohio \/ ARDF en Ohia\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\"><\/a>They came from 15 states and four foreign countries. In their suitcases were radio sets, antennas, sun block and running shoes, but they left some room in hopes of taking home a&nbsp;medal or two. They were the hams and future hams\u2009\u2014\u2009ranging from age 12 to older than 70\u2009\u2014\u2009who went to Southwest Ohio in the third week of May for the 10<sup class=\"ordinal\">th<\/sup> Annual <span class=\"caps\">USA<\/span> Championships of Amateur Radio Direction Finding (<span class=\"caps\">ARDF<\/span>).<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"caps\">ARDF<\/span> is done on 80 meter <span class=\"caps\">CW<\/span> and 2&nbsp;meter <span class=\"caps\">AM<\/span> in separate events, each with five \u201cfox\u201d transmitters. Your mission is to find your assigned foxes, depending on which of the 11 age\/gender categories you are in. Each transmitter is on for one minute at a&nbsp;time in a&nbsp;five-fox cycle that repeats. You must find your way on foot with just your direction-finding gear, the map you\u2019re given and your compass. <span class=\"caps\">GPS<\/span> help is not allowed. Read more&nbsp;here.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arrl.org\/news\/ardf-update-radio-foxhunters-find-their-champions-in-ohio\">http:\/\/\u200bwww\u200b.arrl\u200b.org\/\u200bn\u200be\u200bw\u200bs\u200b\/\u200ba\u200br\u200bd\u200bf\u200b-\u200bu\u200bp\u200bd\u200ba\u200bt\u200be\u200b-\u200br\u200ba\u200bd\u200bi\u200bo\u200b-\u200bf\u200bo\u200bx\u200bh\u200bu\u200bn\u200bt\u200be\u200br\u200bs\u200b-\u200bf\u200bi\u200bn\u200bd\u200b-\u200bt\u200bh\u200be\u200bi\u200br\u200b-\u200bc\u200bh\u200ba\u200bm\u200bp\u200bi\u200bo\u200bn\u200bs\u200b-\u200bi\u200bn\u200b-\u200bo\u200bhio<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <span class=\"caps\">ARRL<\/span> and <span class=\"caps\">ARRL<\/span> <span class=\"caps\">ARDF<\/span> Coordinator Joe Moell, <span class=\"caps\">K0OV<\/span> for the text and&nbsp;photo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They came from 15 states and four foreign countries. In their suitcases were radio sets, antennas, sun block and running shoes, but they left some room in hopes of taking home a&nbsp;medal or two. They were the hams and future hams\u2009\u2014\u2009ranging from age 12 to older than 70\u2009\u2014\u2009who went to Southwest Ohio in the&nbsp;third&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-2576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576","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=2576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}