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Fox Oring

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First post, by yevrowl

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Fox Oring is a variation of the sport of amateur radio direction finding. Fox Oring is a timed race in which individual competitors use a topographic map and a magnetic compass to navigate through diverse, wooded terrain while searching for radio transmitters. The term is derived from the use of the term fox hunting to describe recreational radio direction finding activity and an abbreviation of the word orienteering.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/foxoring/

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Reply 1 of 2, by elszgensa

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How about an explanation of the rule set? At first I thought it might be an implementation of sth like ARDF ("radio fox hunting") but this ain't it (or if it is, it's waaay abstract). I have no clue what I'm supposed to do.

Reply 2 of 2, by yevrowl

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“Fox hunting” is a variant of cross-country orienteering, especially popular in the Soviet Union, but also known in other countries. It is necessary to discover 5 hidden transmitters located on a 10 × 10 field in as few moves as possible. The transmitters broadcast in all 8 directions, the number on the cell indicates the number of intersecting signals. Input is carried out using coordinates on the keyboard.

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