UTARC Foxhunting Quiz

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This month, we look at foxhunting and ARDF. How much do you know about this competitive aspect of ham radio?

1. The IARU ARDF World Championships are held every: 1 year, 2 years, 3 years, 4 years, or 10 years?

2. The 2002 IARU ARDF World Championship is being held in September in: the United States, Canada, Scotland, South Africa, or Slovakia?
   
   A competitor at the 2001 USA ARDF Championship. Note the tape measure yagi used for two meters.

3. In the 2001 USA ARDF Championship, competitors showed up from how many foreign countries: 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5?

4. CQ Magazine Sponsors an annual National Foxhunting Weekend on the second full weekend of which month: January, May, June, July, or November?

5. The 2000 IARU ARDF World Championship was held in which country: the United States, Canada, Japan, China, or Thailand?

6. At the 2000 IARU ARDF World Championship, the best place an individual American competitor finished in either two meters or eighty meters was: first, second, third, ninth, or tenth?

7. Eleven countries competed at the 2000 IARU ARDF World Championship. Team USA finished in which place: first, second, fifth, ninth, or eleventh?
   
   Team USA at the 2000 IARU ARDF World Championship.

8. ARDF antennas that use multiple antennas and operate on the principle of Time-Difference-of-Arrival (TDOA) are also frequently called: Doppler sets, Crenshaw sets, sniffers, trackers, or Bazookas?

9. Radio orienteering is scheduled to become an Olympic ``demonstration sport'' in 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, or it is not scheduled to become an Olympic sport yet?

10. Traditionally, the most competitive radio orienteers come from: North America, South America, western Europe, eastern Europe, or east Asia?

To find out the answers to this quiz, come to the UTARC General Meeting!