ARDF-FjwW is a windows program for using the chip cards system SPORTident^® of the AES Arnstadt company and allows time keeping and evaluation of ARDF competitions. A detailed description is here.


ARDF-FjwW - a screenshot

FjwW was used many times directly at ARDF World- and Region1-Championships 1997, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010 and served for post-evaluations of other WCs and ECs. In Sept. 2011 ARDF-FjwW was used at the
18th Region1 Championships in Romania, the
Region2 Championships in US and the
Region3 Championships in Australia

FjwW supports English, German, French, Dutch, Czech, Russian and Polish language.

The program was successfully used many times at German ARDF competitions as well as in 21 countries e.g. Australia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Rep., France, Great Britain, Hungary, Korea, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Ukraine, USA.

FjwW offers a comfortable display of the current results at any moment during the competition with the Internet Browser on an unlimited number of computers. Here you can see an example.

Beginning with version 8.3 FjwW is unicode and thus able to use all possible international character sets, such as Cyrillic, Arabic, Korean, East- and North-European special characters and so on (screenshot of Dutch language version at the left side).

Here, a description about ARDF-FjwW is currently being developed Description about ARDF-FjwW, that describes the usage and the possibilities of the program and the additional tools, primarily by pictures with accompanying text. The description will be extended continuously. Sorry, in the moment it's only in German (looking for a translator to English ...).

The ARDF-FjwW software isn't freeware and can be obtained from the author only.

The last version of FjwW delivered to registered users is V12.2 (12.2.1.1) on 6.03.2012 and an update V12.2.1.99 on 12.3.2012 ..
If versions didn't get to registered users, please inform the author.
This version has the following new features. Here in details.

Many examples for past evaluations with FjwW are at ardf.darc.de/ardf/contest

E.g. results from:

14th World Championships Korea 9/08
17th ARDF-Region1- Championships 9/09
German Championships 8/10 | 15th World Championships Croatia 9/10
1th German Ranking 5/11 | 12th EYAC 2011 Bulgaria 6/11 | 2th German Ranking 6/11 | 3th German Ranking 7/11 | German Championships 8/11 | 18th ARDF-Region1- Championships 9/11 |

Here currently being built up a service for ARDF-FjwW-User: many German and international ARDF competitions in EDAD format (see above) for usage in FjwW or in other programs which are able to import EDAD.

Year	International Championships	German Championships	Diverse German District Competitions
2011	NC NED, EYAC BUL, EM ROM, R2 USA, R3 AUS	RLL 1-3, DM Thür./Franken, DM-FO	GER Districts 2011
2010	POL, BEL, NC NED, WM CRO	RLL 1-3, DM Hessen, DM-FO Franken	GER Districts 2010
2009	POL, CZE, ROM, NC NED, NC SWE, EM BUL	RLL 1-3, DM Würtembg, DM-FO Bayern/O	GER Districts 2009
2008	NC FRA, NC NED, WM KOR	RLL 1-3, DM Thüringen, DM-FO Haltern	GER Districts 2008
2007	EYAC GER, NC NED, EC POL	RLL 1-3, DM Franken, DM-FO Erfurt	GER Districts 2007
2006	EYAC POL, NC NED, WC BUL	RLL 1-3, DM Schwaben, DM-FO Neubr.bg	GER Districts 2006
2005	EC SCG	RLL 1-3, DM Sauerland, DM-FO Potsdam	GER Districts 2005
2004	WC CZE	RLL 1-3, DM Saarland, DM-FO Herdecke	GER Districts 2004
2003	EYAC GER, EC POL	RLL 1-3, DM Bastheim	GER Districts 2003
2002	WC SVK	RLL 1-3, DM Thale	GER Districts 2002
2001	EC FRA	RLL 1-3, DM Passau	-

FjwMap is primarily a planning tool for ARDF competitions. You can place the locations of start, finish and transmitters on a scanned map (JPG-/GIF-/BMP formats) and calculate the optimal running courses for different categories. Also GPS data of locations can be used. FjwMap can hand over location data to FjwW. A more detailed description is in the help files of FjwMap in English, French or German.



The program can process data of the 'Shuttle Radar Topography Mission' (SRTM, see Wikipedia).
This freely accessible data is stored on a NASA FTP server. The data provides for a surface of approx. 50 x 90 meters (Central Europe) the height above sea level in meters.
With loaded altitude data the height is shown for a marked location at its actual position in the status bar.

FjwMap is able to display a recorded running route from a GPS tracker (GPX file format) on the map with simultaneous display of run time, already passed route, currently active transmitter, altitude, average of speed and time-lapse function. Since V10.11 the track is being displayed permanently. Please download and test it !

FjwMap is freeware for usage in sectors of non-commercial sport, e.g. Amateur Radio Direction Finding (ARDF) or Orienteering (OL). Other usages have to be negotiated with the Author ! The program supports German, English or French.

J.Guettlich, DL7VDB, DL5NBZ and other composed a extensive source index about technique, training, tactics, software and... of ARDF.

Sorry, only in German.
A theoretical comment on dimensioning of antennas for 80-m-Receivers used for direction finding with practical conclusions.

Who knows the many certificates that were issued at ARDF competitions over the past years ?
Here are over 210 certificates from the collection of the author and others.

Anyone who wishes to contribute to this collection, please send a scan to the e-mail below. Thank you!

Who knows the number of medals which were awarded at ARDF competitions over the past years? Here is a collection of more than 110 medals.

Anyone who wishes to contribute to this collection, please send a photo of the medal to the e-mail below. Thank you!

Sorry, only in German.
This system of time recording at ARDF contests was successfully in action between 1995 and 2002 and was the starting point for the FjwW evaluation program.

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