Arrivals with GPS Rings Noyon 30/04/2023
Saturday, 4:45 p.m., home from work. I had already placed the baskets in the hallway of the loft in the morning, since basketing is until 6:00 p.m.
Then you grab the first pigeon to put it in the basket and you think… shit… forgot to charge the GPS rings.
Fortunately, I still had one full battery, so I immediately charged two rings for an hour.
I put the full battery back on the pigeon that always flies home in a straight line and the battery that had been charging for an hour on the 564-21, which flew with a GPS ring for the first time last time.
Noyon 217 km released at 8:30 a.m.
I expected them around 11:15 a.m., but it remained quiet.
At my neighbor’s, a speed/middle-distance racer, the first pigeon dove down at 11:17 a.m.
Here, we had to wait until 11:30 a.m. for the first one to arrive. After sitting outside for a while, they finally came over the antenna and then they started to arrive.
Within fifteen minutes, 50% were home, and after half an hour, 63/79 were in the loft.
I am satisfied with the arrivals, and at the time of writing at 2:00 p.m., one yearling is still on its way.
The GPS rings… they arrived quite late. As 63rd and 67th from our own loft.
The first was the hen whose ring had only been charged for an hour. Her ring shut down in the Oudenaarde area at 10:42 a.m., the other passed in that line from Nieuwenhove at 10:26 a.m.
This means that the purple one made up 21 minutes on the blue one between Oudenaarde and home.
Once again, the blue one circles around the harbor towards the end instead of flying through it, and that’s where he loses those 21 minutes on the purple one.
He stops for a drink at 11:15 a.m. at the Moervaart near Fortstraat in Terwest and stays there for seven minutes before leaving.
The entire blue route to finish.
Maximum speed blue: 1591 m/m
Maximum speed purple: 1390 m/m
Maximum height blue: 180 m
Maximum height purple: 257 m
For the sake of completeness, here is an overview of the arrivals aankomsten:
