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Radio Orienteering: The ARDF Handbook

"Radio Orienteering: The ARDF Handbook" is packed with information, as you'll find everything from Top 10 Tips to Improve Performance to Organizing an ARDF Event. Beginning with the fascinating history of ARDF, this 112-page paperback provides a general overview of the sport. The reader will find pages telling you what you need to know about taking part in your first ARDF event, including clothes to wear, equipment to use, safety, and a guide to way that an event progresses. There are details of the art of plotting bearings, with specific instructions on how to make the best of your equipment and the methods of translating your receiver results onto your map. Another chapter is devoted to training, practice hints and pointers on how to prepare physically for an event.

Readers will also see a great deal of equipment intended for home construction. There are details for 3.5MHz and 144MHz DF receivers, a 2m Yagi antenna, plus transmitters, keyers and fixed antennas. The book includes substantial constructional projects through to simple documented circuit diagrams. Several of the designs have practical applications other than for strictly ARDF purposes. "Radio Orienteering" is an excellent and rounded reference work, highly readable, well-illustrated, and ideal for investigating this sport for the first time—or for those looking to extend their knowledge.

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