SMOC Park Lyndon Radi-O and Score O

Start Availability: All 3 courses will be available for starting from 10am to 2pm.

You can register for any of the courses and can do 1, 2, or all 3 assuming you don't go overtime, etc. Courses are shorter in time and distance required to encourage participation in at least 2 events!

Here are the race format descriptions:

Score-O: Standard orienteering. This is a mini Score-O course where you decide which controls you want to visit and try to find as many of them as you can within the time limit. Since this is a mini-Score-O, winners should be able to to find all controls and clear the course within an hour (as opposed to the normal 2 or more hours) and there will be a 1 hr time limit. Optimal navigation sequence in visiting the controls is desirable for a faster finish time.

Radio-O -- 144 MHz (2-meter band) Classic: This is a mini 144 MHz (2-meter band) Classic Radio-O course where you use a 2-meter band radio receiver and yagi antenna array to find as many of the hidden 144MHz transmitters (aka "foxes") as you can within the time limit. Since this is a mini 144 MHz Classic winners should be able to find all 5 transmitter and clear the course within an hour and there will be a 1.5 hr time limit. The first transmitter transmits for a minute, then shuts off, and the next transmitter transmits for a minute, then shuts off, and so forth until all 5 transmitters have cycled through the sequence and then the cycle repeats throughout the event. Competitors are given a map without any control/transmitter locations marked as the competitors are required to triangulate and locate the foxes using their radio receivers. Optimal navigation sequence in visiting the foxes is desirable for a faster finish time.

Fox-O -- Foxoring (80-meter band): This is a mini Fox-O course which is a combination of orienteering and "fox hunting" (hunting for the hidden transmitters, nicknamed "foxes") and is conducted with transmitters and receivers in the 3.5 MHz (80-meter) band. Much like a standard orienteering Score-O, control circles are printed on the map and the runner decides what sequence to take for navigating to the control circles. However, the control circle on the map represents to *approximate* location of very small low-power hidden transmitters ("foxes") on a slim post (no control flag). The foxes can be inside or outside the control circle location. While running to a control circle and still a good distance away from it the racer will not pick up any signal from the fox because of the fox's very low power. But once the runner gets close to the fox the runner will start picking up and hearing the signal coming from the fox at which point the runner can then home in to the fox using the receiver. The runner punches the SI box on the transmitter post and then starts running to the next control circle location, and continues to find as many of the foxes within the time limit as possible before finishing within a 1 hr time limit. Optimal navigation sequence in visiting the foxes is desirable for a faster finish time.

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