[MLB-WIRELESS] MW event day?

[rick]

ok clue time, how will people get to the very last ap without finding the
melway reference to it which will be the ssid of the second to last ap which
is the ssid of the third to last ap ect ect

so intact it is nothing like orienteering, I was the Australian under 16
male champ in my day for orienteering and this is a treasure hunt

i.e. all the points aren't given at the start only the clue to the second
point



-----Original Message-----
From: owner-melbwireless at wireless.org.au
[mailto:owner-melbwireless at wireless.org.au]On Behalf Of Tony Langdon,
VK3JED
Sent: Wednesday, 31 March 2004 9:11 PM
To: rick; Dan Flett; Melb Wireless
Subject: RE: [MLB-WIRELESS] MW event day?


At 18:20 31/03/04, rick wrote:
>becouse thats how they did it in nzwireless you dont want to make it 2 hard
>it defeats the point, and in any melways square it could be on any of thoue
>houses, i dont mean sticking 8db antennas onit, just stock minitars, people
>still have to FINd the next ap

Yes, you'd want to make people have to find the AP itself and prove that
they did.  There's a number of ways you could do this.  Traditionally,
devices such as orienteering punches are used for this task, but you could
do something simpler, such as have a sticker on the AP with a secret word
or phrase on it, and everyone in the event has to record the phrase on a
sheet of paper or card.

>this wouldnt be a fox hunt in the ham sence, its just a kind of a treasure
>hunt event, and even still you could use the melways refrence as a
>approximent ie that square or the 8 around it,


It's actually rather similar to what we call "Fox-Oring", except for the
fact that we'd be driving between APs, rather than walking or running.

73 de VK3JED
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