ACS
Open North American Championship
[photo courtesy of Dr. Kimberlee Beckmen]
Locally on KIAK AM 970
The ACS Open North American will be March 15 - 17, 2002. The first team goes out at 1 pm each day from downtown Fairbanks. For the first time ever, the race will start on the Chena River in downtown Fairbanks, also the start location of the Yukon Quest.
Radio/web coverage from KIAK AM 970 will begin at approximately pm Alaska Standard Time (1:30 Pacific Standard Time.)
The ONAC is unique (along with the LNAC) in that the third day is longer than the first two. Friday and Saturday heats run approximately 20 miles; Sunday about 28 miles.
The ONAC is the oldest sprint dog race in the world, running continuously since 1947!
If the link below doesn't work, then you'll need to read below the red line.
Click
HERE to listen!
Your announcers, Lynn Orbison and Pete Van Nort.
(Click picture for enlargement.)
PHOTOS!
By Magali Philip of DogTec,
LLC, posted by SleddogCentral.
Experimental
WEB CAM:
(courtesy of Steve and Pat at Mercury
Data Group)
Auto-Updating or Manual-Updating
(Auto will update every few seconds, but might interfere with audio feed on slow connections)
Note that the pictures are essentially in real-time, but the audio streaming is almost a minute delayed due to buffering.
Timesheet in PDF
format
(right-click and Save Target
As to your hard drive)
Unofficial Checkpoint and Finish Times from www.sleddogcentral.com
Race
Course Map
(right-click and Save Target
As to your hard drive)
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner story on moving the start to the Chena River
News-Miner Friday morning story
News-Miner Saturday morning story
News-Miner Sunday morning story
TV COVERAGE: If in Fairbanks, tune into or set your VCR to record KTVF Channel 11 for live reports from the race every half hour starting at 12:28 pm.
If the link above doesn't bring up an audio client (RealAudio, Windows Media Player or WinAmp), or never plays any audio, you probably need a newer client:
To listen requires:
| Player (Windows) | Size of installer download |
| Real Audio Player Version 8 or newer. | 5 MB (Note: They try very hard to get you to download the $30 version; they tend to hide the links to the free version towards the bottom or left of the screen.) |
| Microsoft Media Player Version 7 or newer. | 9 MB |
| WinAmp version 2.72 or newer. | Only 500 Kilobytes! |
| Player (Macintosh) | |
| SoundJam (No longer available.) |
Unfortunately, the version of Media Player that ships with Windows 98 and Windows 2000 is version 6 and won't work. Real Audio Player versions G2 and 7 won't, either.
Because Real Audio and Media Player are SO large, and can take hours to download over slow modems, we recommend WinAmp. It's a small program, and they don't bug you to buy a commercial version. It should take less than 5 minutes to download over a modem connection. Kind of a small, hard-to-read screen, but you rarely need to read it--once installed, you click on a link on the Web and audio will start playing.
Please contact tftfm@uaf.edu if you need any further help.
Last updated March 17, 2002
