Another option is to allow use this equipment to carry on leg not on wrist position- it will be to uncomfortable to follow screem in this way:)

If there are problem then there are always simple solution!

I really hope this rule is cancelled!

Get a Forerunner 205/305. Ask your friend who starts early run with it and take splits at every control. It may be someone at in other class but who runs the same course. Then as a late starter run with the same gps unit. Use the map mode, so you’ll see map of your contols (even numbered right) and your own location and track so far. Let the screen guide you to the control if you are unsure or when you think you are about to make mistake. Like this you will avoid most mistakes and will not lose time for hesitating. Easy and simple way to cheat since spring 2006.

Call me awkward, but being sophisticated towards GPS and doing so little against packs at the same time seems rather inappropriate to me.

I agree with Jakob and Anna.

Regarding the GPS devices without the display, maybe it’s possible in the future to integrate GPS receiver into the new models of SI and EMIT units.

About Jukola rule: It is not allowed for the competitor to use his own tracking devices.
As this sentence is following the part of the rule where is described how the organisers will give tracking devices to the top teams, it seems logical to me that this sentence also regards only those top teams who will get organisers tracking devices.
But of course without the context it’s clear enough that nothing is allowed. But the organisers know best what they meant by that rule.

Because this rule only applies to IOF races you can still use your usual watch in most races and in training. In my opinion it is more important after the race to know that the competition was fair, rather than to know what your heart-rate was or your GPS track.

As an analogy one can think of what the new head lamps has done to night orienteering.
In my opinion night orienteering has lost its fascination as a special discipline with the use of (and the permision to use) high level lumen light bulbs.
When this was assessed by national federations it was argued that this cannot be controlled and therefore had to be permitted. (With both the argument and the conclusion being wrong).

Similarly the argument that GPS-watches exist and many people already having purchased one does not imply that we as a sport cannot decide that the use of them should be banned for the sake of protecting some fundamental values.

See rules: http://www.jukola2009.net/english/competition_instructions/announcements/jarjestelytiedotteet/competition_instructions.html (last line of GPS TRACKING section).

…not even a logger!!!

…will we see disqualifications of those bloggers who post routes after Jukola? Presumably once the results become “official” (a few hours after the race) and the protest time-limit has expired it’s not possible, but if the Jukola organisers are feeling particularly evil they could do it!

A gps receiver is not that big of an investment, that is true. For around 60 €uros you’ll get a myLogger that’s really accurate and gives the same data as a Forerunner. Without the heart rate data of course.

In a nut shell: I want to have one device that does what I wannt! Because I already have it!

+ Every device needs it’s own software and not every manufacturer support every operating system and same cables etc. I have a Macintosh computer and Garmin is by far the only wrist computer manufacturer that supports Mac OS X. Do I have to buy a new computer too to obey this rule?!

A forerunner (or similar) can’t display any maps, so the gps co-ordinates are useless. I don’t believe that a gps -watch can be used for cheating until someone shows me. In additions: most end-user gps receivers are not accurate enough for sprint races, nor will they find any controls for you. The sport is still orienteering and the only way to the top is by training.

I’m getting pretty agitated here!

http://www.frick.nu/blog/2009/05/10/