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Minutes of the 24th IARU Region 1 ARDF Working Group Meeting held in Cetniewo, Poland on 7th and 9th September 2003
Agenda of the meeting:
Attendance: In the Chair: Rainer Floesser, DL5NBZ 1st session: 2nd session: BFRA Panayot Danev, LZ1US Panayot Danev, LZ1US CRC Jiri Marecek, OK2BWN Jiri Marecek, OK2BWN DARC Kai Buchhold, DH0NAZ Kai Buchhold, DH0NAZ HRS Branko Vidovic, 9A2AT Branko Vidovic, 9A2AT LRMD Algimantas Dapkus, LY2CD --- MRASz Miklos Venczel, HA0LZ --- NRRL Svein Olsen, LA6KCA Svein Olsen, LA6KCA PZK Krzysztof Slomczynski, SP5HS Krzysztof Slomczynski, SP5HS REF Union Lucien Vidal, F4DKA Lucien Vidal, F4DKA SRR Tchermen Gouliev, UA3BL Tchermen Gouliev, UA3BL SCG Dusan Ceha, YU1EA Dusan Ceha, YU1EA SSA Jan Palmquist, SM5FUG Jan Palmquist, SM5FUG UARL Victor Bobrov, UT3UV --- VERON Henk Vrolijk, PA0HPV Henk Vrolijk, PA0HPV ZRS Franci Zankar, S57CT --- Guests: BFRA Viktor Tsenkov, LZ3NN --- BFRA Roussko Roussev, LZ1RT --- CRC Pavel Valenta --- DARC Karl-Heinz Mols, DL9ME Karl-Heinz Mols, DL9ME HRS Zeljko Ulip, 9A2EY Zeljko Ulip, 9A2EY MRASz Istvan Borcsok, HA8ZG --- MRASz Jozsef Ballai, HA8LIC --- SARA Dusan Kawasch, OM8AAA --- SSA Lars Nordgren, SM0OY Lars Nordgren, SM0OY SRR Alexandre Koshkine, UA3FW --- UARL Ms. Walentina Beh, UT5XA ---
Ad 1: The meeting chaired by the ARDF WG Chairman Rainer Floesser, DL5NBZ, was opened at 08:25 hours on Sunday, 7th September. The representative of the hosting society PZK, Krzysztof Slomczynski, SP5HS, welcomed the attendants.
Ad 2: The DL5NBZ welcomed the honorary guest Panayot Danev, LZ1US, member of Executive Committee of IARU Region 1. Panayot Danev, LZ1US relayed the greetings to the meeting from Chairman of Executive Committee Ole Garpestad, LA2RR (long time ARDF competitor and ARDF International Class referee).
The Chairman informed on the passing away of the three outstanding ARDF amateurs during the last year period: Paul Rudolf, HB9IR, Hans Rackwitz, DJ8FF and Harry Deblier ON7HD. Their memory was honoured by the minute of silence.
Ad 3: The present members of ARDF WG and guests introduced themselves.
Ad 4: The meeting received the apologies for absence from the following WG members: Oivind Solli, LA1KP Arne Jensen, OZ9VA The meeting accepted the following proxies: REF: Guillaume Vidal, F4DJO to Lucien Vidal, F4DKA UBA: Rik Strobbe, ON7YD to Henk Vrolijk, PA0HPV SRSCG: Gojko Mitrovic, YU6AO to Dusan Ceha, YU1EA NRRL: Oivind Solli LA1KP to Svein Olsen, LA6KCA EDR: Arne Jensen, OZ9VA to NRRL UARL: to Victor Bobrov, UT3UV (permanent representation in the ARDF WG) DARC: Rainer Floesser, DL5NBZ to Kai Buchhold, DH0NAZ The Chairman handed over the certificate of ARDF International Class Referee to Victor Bobrov, UT3UV.
Ad 5: The meeting approved unanimously the agenda.
Ad 6: The meeting approved unanimously the program of the 14th IARU ARDF Region 1 Championships.
Ad 7: The meeting approved unanimously the composition of the International Jury to the 14th IARU ARDF Region 1 Championships as below: Rainer Floesser, DL5NBZ Chairman of the Jury Krzysztof Slomczynski,SP5HS Secretary of the Jury Karl-Heinz Mols, DL9ME Referee at start Zygmunt J. Bauke, SP9ALM Referee at finish Stanislaw Wilczynski, SP2FLE Siting referee Adam Dyrka, SP2EDA Technical Director Victor Bobrov, UT3UV Referee at the transmitter No. 1 Alexander Koshkin, UA3FW Referee at the transmitter No. 2 Lars Nordgren, SM0OY Referee at the transmitter No. 3 Roussko Roussev, LZ1RT Referee at the transmitter No. 4 Miklos Venczel, HA0LZ Referee at the transmitter No. 5
The meeting approved the time limit for 145 MHz competition of 120 minutes.
The representatives of hosting society presented the technical equipment to be used at the Championships, including electronic registration system - chip cards and electronic readers, system of electronic calculation, printing and displaying the results etc. The system, tested several times at the Polish national ARDF events, was approved unanimously by the Working Group.
The newly developed by Polish ARDF Club software for determining the start sequence was unanimously approved by Working Group to be used at this Championships on interim basis. The software will be presented later to the Chairman of ARDF WG for testing and possible approval for use within Region 1.
The starting procedure was explained in details by the Chairman and representatives of hosting society.
The Chairman informed that a new amateur society ARM has been created in Republic of Moldova. This society recently became a member society of IARU. Attempts to contact ARM immediately before the Championships, either by e-mail and by fax failed. It was decided, that invited to this Championships society FRRM has full rights to participate, but it was advised to President of FRRM to agree with the ARM that the FRRM will represent ARM as its ARDF section. In future, all invitations will be directed to ARM.
Ad 8: The meeting approved unanimously the minutes of the 23rd Plenary Meeting held in Valdragone / San Marino.
Ad 9: Chairman presented his report on ARDF activity in IARU Region 1 for the period of last year (the report is attached as Appendix D). The meeting approved the report unanimously.
Discussion arose on the official name of the Championships. Would the name “European Championships†to be used? It was explained by IARU Region 1 representative, that official name should be: “ARDF Championships of IARU Region 1 (Europe, Middle East, Africa and Northern Asia)â€.
Ad 10: The meeting approved unanimously the new International Class referees as below: Bohuslav Koutek, OK1FJW proposed by CRC Jiri Pavlu, OK1CHE proposed by CRC Maurice Van de Keere, ON6VK proposed by UBA Ivan Todorovic, YU1UA proposed by SRSCG Dusan Ceha, YU1EA proposed by SRSCG Dejan Grozdanovic, YZ1GD proposed by SRSCG Anatolij P. Petrovski, UT5AQ proposed by UARL Ad 11: The meeting received the preliminary information of 12th IARU ARDF World Championships to be hosted by the Chech Society CRC in 2004, presented by Jiri Marecek, OK2BWN. The written information as well as the Bulletin No.2 was handed over to all attendants of the meeting.
The problem of changing the rules was also discussed. Jiri Marecek was asked to present the proposal of changes at the second session of the meeting.
The meeting was adjourned at 11:30 hours
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The Chairman opened second session of the meeting on Tuesday 9th September at 21:00 hours.
The meeting approved the time limit for 3,5 MHz competition of 120 minutes.
Ad 12: Dusan Ceha, YU1EA presented preliminary information of 15th IARU Region 1 ARDF Championships to be hosted by the Serbia and Montenegro society SCG in 2005. Because of the change of name of the country from Yugoslavia to Serbia and Montenegro, name of the society was changed to Savez Radioamatera Srbije i Crne Gore - shorten name: SCG. Three venues of the Championships are considered: Beograd, Uzice and Nis. The Championship web site is to be activated next month, the information will be available also on ARDF WG web site. New technical equipment will be used, the exact date will be announced later. For the purpose of cheap air tickets, full weekend should be included.
Ad 13: Panayot Danev, LZ1US presented the preliminary information of 13th IARU ARDF World Championships to be hosted by the Bulgarian society BFRA in 2006. Preliminary preparations has been started. Proposed date of the Championships is 12 - 17 September 2006 (Tuesday to Sunday). The venue will be chosen depending of hotel prices.
Ad 14: No society presented the wish to be organiser of the 5th Youth ARDF Championships of IARU Region 1 - 2004 and 6th Youth ARDF Championships of IARU Region 1 - 2005; in result no solution was taken. Jiri Marecek, OK2BWN underlined the need of continuing the youth championships, as being of great importance for the future of ARDF. It was agreed that Chairman will send an e-mails to all IARU Region 1 societies asking for possibilities to organise youth championships in 2004 and 2005.
Ad 15: No information nor proposals were received.
Ad 16: Jiri Marecek, OK2BWN presented the principle and results of testing a new ARDF system with ten transmitters. The issue was discussed by the meeting. Above information is to be included in the ARDF WG web site, in aim to allow the member societies to organise the test events by themselves. The issue will be continued, depending on result of further testing. see Appendix C
Ad 17: Two proposals were presented in written by Jiri Marecek, OK2BWN: a) registering of finish beacon. see Appendix A b) park race. see Appendix B Chairman explained that there is no majority present at the 2nd session. The e-mail voting will be introduced in future and receipt of Chairman’s e-mails including issues to be voted shall be confirmed. Silence procedure will be used (no answer till the deadline means acceptance).
ad a): advantages of registering of finish beacon were explained and discussed (competitors shall enter the finish corridor at the entrance, advantage for media and spectators). By majority of 10 votes (one abstention) the meeting has been in favour of introducing the registering of finish beacon into the rules used at the 2004 World Championships held in Czech Republic. This proposal will be included in e-mail circulated by Chairman to all WG members (see above explanation of silence procedure).
ad b): Jiri Marecek, OK2BWN explained the principle of ARDF park race, proposed to be tried during the 2004 World Championships, on the free day. The journalists, VIPs and others will be invited to participate. The name would be “Open Czech Park ARDF Championshipâ€. Such event has the advantage of wide promotion of ARDF.
Tchermen Gouliev, UA3BL proposed to re-define the existing distance limit six to ten kilometres.
Jiri Marecek, OK2BWN proposed to accept for the present Championships (3,5 MHz run) time limit longer than 120 minutes.
Ad 18: Chairman closed the meeting at 23:30 Minutes keeper: Chairman: Krzysztof Slomczynski, SP5HS Rainer Floesser, DL5NBZ
Appendix A
To: IARU Region 1 ARDF Working Group From: Czech Radio Club Suggestion: To register the finish beacon in the same way as other transmitters. Reasons: This change will bring two main advantages: 1. Every competitor will come to the finish corridor from the same direction. Any attempt of shortening the way to the finish by crossing the corridor side etc. will not bring any advantage and therefore need not be considered at all. It will remove all confusions, strays and other problems, which are normally very common. 2. Using the electronic registering device (which are quite common now), there is possible to link it to the information table and to the speaker stand and announce the competitors arrivals in advance, which is very comfortable for the organizers and spectators at the finish. Registering of the final checkpoint just before the finish corridor is normal at orienteering and brings no problems to the competitors. We tested this at two ARDF competitions at the national level and competitors adapted themselves to this change without any problem. Current wording of the relevant points of the ARDF Rules 25.6 Transmitters shall be searched for by each category as follows:
25.7 The order in which competitors search for and discover the transmitters is entirely at their discretion. 25.8 The finish beacon shall be placed at the entrance of the finish corridor. It has no flag and marking device and need not be discovered and registered. 25.9 Transmitters No.1 through 5 shall be marked by a flag consisting of three squares 30 x 30 cm arranged in a triangular form. Each square shall be divided diagonally, one half being white and the other orange or red. Suggested new wording: 25.6 Transmitters shall be searched for by each category as follows:
25.7 The order in which competitors search for and discover the transmitters is entirely at their discretion, only the finish beacon shall be registered as the last one. 25.8 The finish beacon shall be placed at the entrance of the finish corridor. 25.9 All transmitters including the finish beacon shall be marked by a flag consisting of three squares 30 x 30 cm arranged in a triangular form. Each square shall be divided diagonally, one half being white and the other orange or red. This change is considered as temporary, used at WCH2004 for testing purpose.
Appendix B To: IARU Region 1 ARDF Working Group From: Czech Radio Club Suggestion: Park ARDF race at WCH2004
Basic principles: Park ARDF race (also named as supersprint ARDF) is a kind of ARDF, characteristic by its short course length and high speed of run. There are about 10 continuously operating transmitters in not very large (usually less than 2 sq.km), easily crossable area. Transmitters are operating at different frequencies in 3,5 MHz band, between 3550 and 3650 kHz. One of them acts as finish beacon (MO), others are distinguished by code and keying speed. The M21 category searches for 7-8 transmitters, other categories less. There is one transmitter for each particular category defined as compulsory first. The starting interval is 2-3 minutes. The start and finish points may be close one to the other, the competitors already finished are strictly separated from those waiting for their start. The finish and start points are arranged so that many spectators can watch and encourage the competitors. The usual course lengths are 3-4 km, winner times around 15-20 minutes. There was several competitions organized in Czech republic, 3 of them as official Czech Park ARDF Championships. These competitions proved their usefulness, brought nice, thrilling atmosphere and attention of many spectators. Their contribution for promoting the ARDF at wide public is great. The organizer of the World ARDF Championships 2004 intend to organize such a race on the free day, inviting also journalists, VIPs and other people to participate. The official status of the competition will be Open Czech Park ARDF Championships.
Appendix C
To: IARU R1 ARDF WG From: Jiri Marecek, OK2BWN (CRC-ARDF) 10 transmitters in ARDF - experience from testing competitions
Original reasons and considerations:
Experiences from testing in terrain: During 2001-2003, several competitions with more than 5 transmitters were organized in Czech Republic, even at 1st national level. Two possible arrangements were used: 1. 2x5 transmitters on two frequencies ("blue" and "red"), finish beacon on third frequency between them, normal timing (1 minute), the two sets of transmitters had also different keying speed 2. 10 transmitters on one frequency (and finish beacon on different frequency), transmitters operated one after the other per 30 seconds. Transmitters 1-5 had slower keying speed, transmitters 6-10 had the same codes (MOE-MO5) at faster keying speed.
Ad 1:There were defined additional limits: maximum number of transmitters per category was 5, no category searched for two simultaneously operating transmitters (for example, two MOE's). This system was used at two 1st level national competitions, about 170 competitors in 13 categories took part. Competitors reported no problems with QSY or special transmitter assignment (even children categories). The courses were much more combined, there was practically no following between different categories. Also the concentration on "main paths" was very low. Pros and cons of this system:
Ad 2:This system was used several times at competition of some 100 participants. M21 competitors searched for 7-8 transmitters, other categories less. No problem for competitors, no problems with receivers. There were some objections, especially at 144 MHz band, where 30 seconds may be too short for qualified bearing taking.
Pros and cons of this system:
Note: Similar system is used for a long time in Sweden (7 transmitters in 10 minutes). Although the transmitting interval length of 85,7 seconds is not very comfortable, there are similar reasons obvious. In my opinion, 10 minutes between two consecutive relations of the transmitter is too long.
Conclusions:
Appendix D
The Chairmans report I like to keep this report as short as possible and focus on two major event since my last report to the 23rd Plenary Meeting in San Marino.
The General Conference in San Marino was very important for ARDF and I entered two papers in the name of the WG to this Conference. The first paper was drawing attention to the following facts:
CONSIDERING
This paper was brought to two committees C2 Financial matters and C3 Adminstrative matters. As a result of C2 the following recommendation was given to the Final Plenary and accept there: Also my planed budget was accepted, in which I increased the support for events and cut the office and travel expenses for the chairman to the lowest necessary amount. For 2003 there is 500 CHF support for the Youth Championships and 1500 CHF for Region 1 Championships. The same budget I have planed for 2004. Altouh WG decided that there is no support necessary for the Youth Championships I believe it is important to support this event if it is possible. The second paper was the paper with the “new†Rules. In the 23rd Plenary Meeting of the WG we checked the Rules again and again there were som minor changes in wording. After this changes the paper was accepted in C3 and forwarded to the Final Plenary. After several year of hard work the Rules V2.6 Part A&B are now valid rules. I like to express my thanks to all involved in this great work, especially to the members of the sub group rules chaired by Karl Heinz Mols, DL9ME. At General Conferenes there are elections. Due to the proposal of the ARDF WG I was was elected again to chair the working group. Thank you for your trust in my work. I promise to do my best. Also the chairman of Region 1 and the executive commitee were elected. The new chairman (president) of Region1 is our friend and member of this WG for long years, Ole Garpestad, LA2RR. Panayot Danev, LZ1US, also a member of this WG and active competitor was elected a member of Executive Committee.
4th Youth ARDF Championship of IARU Region 1 in Bastheim, Germany
Unsolved problems: Up to now there is no good solution in naming the European ARDF Championships. As a compromise these kind of Championships are named: |
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