Race report now on website and WFRA website.
Race report now on website and WFRA website.
Clear your inbox Wheeze and I'll give you a detailed run-down of my views and opinions (mostly positive ones!!) of the race.
Should be room now!
Wheeze PM sent!!
I managed to find a picture which sums up this event:-
Hare and hounds paperchase c1880.jpg
Now in reflection mode as I prepare a detailed post race report. Tooling around the interweb for a pure satellite down/up system I did come across SPOT. I note this use in Tasmania in 2011. Might one hope that Wales in 2015 would be a better proposition? The SPOT satellite uplinking would eradicate the often significant dead spots caused by the current trackers uplinking by GSM
http://www.findmespot.eu/en/index.ph...108#howitworks
Saw them a few months ago. Spot has some mixed reviews, wasnt the best I found. Has problems in woods, also reliability/support issues - too many issues dying for my liking.. Software needs checking. Think james had an opinion on them.
In the end the best answer is "try it and see!"
Think we need to see if trackers come on stream on the new constellation as used by your satphones: technology evolves all the time. So lets see what there is around new year.
Scout groups around here are using Spot trackers for Duke of Edinburgh Award stuff from here,
http://www.mapyx.com/dofe_tracking/
Hmm. Useful! Still way too pricey though.
a bit late in doing this but wanted to say a huge thank you to Wheeze and his team for a fab, fun day out last Saturday in the beautiful Black Mountains - we had a blast....inspired to do more racing in the area - such unlike my pseudonym haha