World Class Foxhunting in the Tar Heel State
Championship Amateur Radio Direction Finding (ARDF) is coming back. For the 20th time, fans of this international radiosport have gathered to see who is best in the nation at finding hidden transmitters on foot in the woods with a map and compass. The competition sites were near Asheboro, North Carolina and the sponsoring organization was the Backwoods Orienteering Klub (BOK).
USA’s last pre-COVID national championships were July 28th through August 4, 2019. Enthusiasts from around the country gathered in Raleigh, North Carolina, along with a group of middle- and high-school students visiting from Guangzhou, China.1 Boston was selected as the site for the annual get-together in June 2020, but the pandemic intervened and cancellation was necessary. The biennial World ARDF Championships were scheduled for early September 2020 in Zlatibor, Serbia, but also had to be cancelled.
With the expectation of a return to normal times, BOK announced the 20 USA Championships for October 14-17, 2021 and the Amateur Radio Union of Serbia rescheduled the World Championships for September 2021. It turned out that the worldwide COVID
