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Irish 'Running Man' WarWalking Competition
phaxx writes "Dubbed 'WaveHunt', this is the Irish take on DefCon's RunningMan competition. Contestants will have three attempts, each an hour long, to locate a moving Linksys WRT54g running OpenWRT Linux. They must positively identify the person carrying the hidden acccess point and report this back to base. The first prize is two hundred euro, and it takes place this coming Saturday, March 5th. The intended venues are a large park, a defined area of winding streets in Dublin City Centre, and a multi-level shopping centre!"
This is just Foxhunting by another name.
The only difference is that this is open to non-hams.
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This sounds a lot like Ham Radio direction finding contests. In fact, I bet a lot of the same kind of DFing technology will be used.
Look here for information about direction finding, transmitter hunting, and radio-orienteering as used by hams:
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there are 3 kinds of people:
* those who can count
* those who can't
Also helps to use some of the massively directional WiFi antennas you can get (you know, the ones with +22dbi gain or more). Signal strength then beocmes less of an issue, and more of how good your pointing skills are (one directional antenna, with good backside characteristics will point you in a rough line).
Mostly because the signal strength "meters" on most wifi cards are utterly useless. All you really need is "signal found and acquired".
Ah, the modern foxhunt (I don't believe that even the traditional radio foxhunts used signal strength to much effect, other than well, detecting the presence of a signal).
I wonder what the rules say about just searching the backpacks of everyone in the area for said access point (you know, the new post-9/11 way of doing things?)...
The rules state no directional antennae.
In btw, it is possibly the only meaningfull movie the Terminator ever made.
Baker's Law: Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it
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I am only familiar with the Stephen King book The Running Man. Was there also one by Dick? A quick Google search didn't find it, but that may just be me.
Actually, that was BigEZy. He did drive all the way out to LA before the start of the competition, provided evidence of his being there at the time of the contest, but through some technical goofs, they did'nt get thier data in by the deadline and so the LA run did'nt count.
I know this because I was one of the other contestants who was angry and impressed by the interesting interpretation of the rules.
Where are we going, and why are we in this hand cart?