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USA Radio Orienteering Championships to be held in North Texas
27 September 2022 - The 22nd USA Radio Orienteering Championships will be held April 19-23, 2023 near
Sulphur Springs, Texas. Event organizers have published Bulletin
1 with more information.
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20th World ARDF Championships in Borovets, Bulgaria
3 September 2022 - The 20th World ARDF Championships took place August 28 to
September 2, 2022 at Borovets, Bulgaria. Results are available here.
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USA ARDF Championships to be held near Quantico, Virginia
27 February 2022 - The 21st annual USA ARDF Championships will take place April 7-10 at
Prince William Forest Park,
a National Park in Quantico, Virginia. The event is sanctioned by the American Radio Relay
League (ARRL), the national association for amateur radio in the United States, and organized the
Backwoods Orienteering Klub (BOK), with support from the
Quantico Orienteering Club (QOC). For the latest details, see the championships
Bulletin 2.
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2022 World ARDF Championships Bulletins Re-Released
31 January 2022 - The organizers of the 20th World ARDF Championships, to be held in Serbia from August 28 to September 3,
2022, have re-released the Championship Bulletins 1 and 2 with updated information. You can download the new combined
document
here.
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ARDF World Championships Postponed to 2022
1 June 2021 - Based upon the feedback received from the IARU Region 1 ARDF Working Group members and IARU
Region 2 and Region 3 ARDF Coordinators, the next ARDF World Championships, originally scheduled for 2020 and then
rescheduled for 2021, has been again re-scheduled with the same host society (Serbia) and location for similar dates
in 2022, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. For more details see
https://www.iaru-r1.org/about-us/committees-and-working-groups/ardf/.
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2021 USA/IARU Region 2 ARDF Championships to be Held in North Carolina
21 May 2021 - The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) has announced that the United States ARDF
Championships has been scheduled for October 14-17 in North Carolina. After consultation with IARU members
societies in IARU Region 2, this event has also been designated the IARU Region 2 ARDF Championships. More details
are available at
https://backwoodsok.org/us-2021-ardf-champs-bulletin-one.
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2020 ARDF World Championships and 2020 WYAC Canceled
8 May 2020 - Based upon the feedback received from the IARU Region 1 ARDF Working Group members and IARU
Region 2 and Region 3 ARDF Coordinators, the 2020 ARDF World Championships in Serbia and the 2020 World
Youth ARDF Championships (WYAC) in Slovenia have been canceled and will be re-scheduled with the same host
societies and locations for similar dates in 2021, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. For more details see
https://www.iaru-r1.org/about-us/committees-and-working-groups/ardf/.
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2020 USA ARDF Championships Canceled
30 March 2020 - The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) has announced that the United States ARDF
Championships has been cancelled due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. For more details see
http://www.arrl.org/amateur-radio-direction-finding.
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12th IARU Region 3 ARDF Championships Canceled
19 June 2019 - The Chinese Radio Amateurs Club (CRAC) has announced that the ARDF championships for IARU Region 3,
originally scheduled for 21-27 September 2019, have been cancelled. The Region 3 ARDF Committee is exploring other
options for the 2019 championships, but acknowledges that the likelihood of finding an alternative at such a late
date is a "low possibility".
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New ARRL ARDF Coordinator Announced
19 June 2019 - After 21 years as
ARRL ARDF Coordinator,
Joe Moell K0OV has stepped down. He has been an active promoter,
book author, article writer, and organizer of radio direction finding and
ARDF competitions in the United States of America. Joe plans to continue
to update his Homing In web site, which
has been a vital resource to the global ARDF community. ARRL President
Rick Roderick K5UR has appointed Jerry
Boyd WB8WFK of Albuquerque, New Mexico as the new ARRL ARDF Coordinator.
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19th World ARDF Championships Final Report
29 January 2019 - The Korean Amateur Radio League (KARL) has published the final report from the 19th World ARDF
Championships. The document includes final results, maps from each event, and reports from the jury and organizers. You
can download the report here (PDF
format, 11.7 MB).
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New ARDF Rules
13 January 2019 - The IARU Region 1 ARDF Working Group has published a new version of the ARDF Rules. These rules are also
commonly used in international competitions in IARU Regions 2. The new rules, and a documen of changes, are available here.
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Discover ARDF in the Americas!
The International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) represents the interests
of Amateur Radio operators worldwide, and is the international
organizing body for ARDF. IARU Region 2 is the regional organization
for the American continent, the Caribbean, and some islands of the
Pacific. The IARU Region 2 ARDF Coordinator encourages and supports
the growth of the sport of ARDF in IARU Region 2, coordinates
international activities with Regions 1 and 3, and reports to the
IARU Region 2 Executive Commitee.
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