Details Day 1-Sprint
British
ARDF Championships 2016
Sprint –
Friday 6th May
Final
Details
Location
Lickey Hills Country Park
Nearest Post Code B45 8ER (be careful though - Bing and Streetmap disagree on where this is)
Lat (WGS84) N52:22:37 (52.376954)
Long (WGS84) W2:00:12 (-2.003290)
Nat Grid SO998754 / SO9987375435
http://streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?X=399873&Y=275435&A=Y&Z=115
Lat (WGS84) N52:22:37 (52.376954)
Long (WGS84) W2:00:12 (-2.003290)
Nat Grid SO998754 / SO9987375435
http://streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?X=399873&Y=275435&A=Y&Z=115
Directions and parking
Coming from the North at the roundabout (B4096 / B4120). head up the hill on the 4096 and turn left on the unclassified road just before the church. Turn left after the church and now heading downhill and North-East pass the visitor centre and continue on to the top of the hill. Follow the tarmac round to the left and look for the ARDF feather flag or Black Volvo OV59ECN
Course
One championship sprint course for all classes consisting of:
• Punch Start SI box
•
5 slow transmitters - 3580 kHz
•
Spectator beacon (mandatory) - 3542 kHz (Sounding MO not S)
•
5 fast transmitters - 3560 kHz
•
Finish beacon (mandatory) - 3522 kHz (Sounding MO)
• Punch Finish SI Box
The minimum straight line distance is approximately 2.9 km. Find as many transmitters as you can within the time limit. You don't have to find all the SLOW transmitters but once you have punched the spectator control any further SLOW transmitters visited will not count.
Time limit: 60 minutes
Punching: SportIdent
There will be a punching start and start times will not be
pre-allocated. Receivers are not required to be deposited but may not be used
before starting except to tune in to the transmitters (under supervision of the start marshal)
Hidden transmitter controls will be at least 100m apart and at least
100m from the start. There are no distance limits for the spectator beacon,
finish beacon or finish.
The start and finish corridors will not be taped. There is no
spectator corridor.
Timings
Registration
opens: 16:45
First
Start:
17:10 (Tx will come on air at 17:00)
Last
Start:
18:30 (later if you let me know and will help collect Tx after the
race)
Course
closes:
19:30
Map
1:5000, 5m contours, revised 2015, ink-jet printed on standard, not-waterproof A4 paper. The map will need protection from rain and etc.
Facilities
Toilets are available at the visitor centre - which is 200m from registration, note however
"Staffed all year round, open daily from 10:00am until 5:50pm in the summer and 4:30pm in the winter."
I am not sure when the summer opening hours start. There is a McDonalds within 2km - ask your sat nav.
Phytophthora ramorum
This has been recently present at Lickey Hills and not, so far, at Wyre Forest. We will
a) All be cleaning our shoes - I will bring a scrubbing brush and some buckets for the worst and then please rinse outside of shoes in hot water when back in your hotel
b) Washing mud and organic matter from our gaiters and breeches and drying them off overnight.
It is an awful disease and there are several host plants - and you will be running though bilberry bushes which are susceptible - especially in humid/rainy conditions.
Phytophthora ramorum
This has been recently present at Lickey Hills and not, so far, at Wyre Forest. We will
a) All be cleaning our shoes - I will bring a scrubbing brush and some buckets for the worst and then please rinse outside of shoes in hot water when back in your hotel
b) Washing mud and organic matter from our gaiters and breeches and drying them off overnight.
It is an awful disease and there are several host plants - and you will be running though bilberry bushes which are susceptible - especially in humid/rainy conditions.
Version 1, 29 April 2016
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