Here is a map from Gyuri's 2004 training camp near Pécs, Hungary.  (It’s pronounced like “page”.)  It's a 2m course on a 1:15000, 5m map.  The terrain is apparently karst, because there are small and large depressions (sinkholes) over the majority of the map.  It's a bit remarkable because where you expect to see many streams, there are few   Much of the run-off must disappear into the sinkholes. This takes away some of the visual cues that help you read the map, and makes the map slightly more challenging to read. If any of you attended the camp, please try to remember what you did, and then tell us about it, especially what order you used.

Click here for the map.

I've got a few of these maps, and I'd like to post one every week or two as a build up to the US Champs in April.  Sort of a winter armchair map-training opportunity.  What I usually do when I look at an ARDF course is try to run the event (realizing that the transmitter locations aren't marked on the competitor map) by guessing where I'd be at different times and then assessing what sort of signal I'd get from the transmitter.  Say, in the first minute-I'll go about to here, and since 1 is 1500m away, and there's no line of sight (since this is 2m), the signal is going to be so degraded I won't have any bearing.  Then the hard part: Ignore the marked locations and focus on the bearings you have.  Choose what you'd do, and then move along, piecewise, until you finish the course.