Before each event, your smart device must have the latest Richta GPS Checkpoints app versions. We encourage you to click the link below and check out the many useful videos, documentation, and presentation links on the Richta Rally webpage, as well as charts from the comparison between the Richta GPS[Read More…]
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Richta GPS Rallymaster Updates, Direct from Richta HQ in Larryville, Kansas
Release 1.36 of Android Rallymaster was released in September 2023 It includes an enhancement to the Send Timeslips program. If no timeslip is present for a checkpoint the time is now reported as “No Time” instead of the GMT value of 0 for the local timezone. There is also a[Read More…]
There’s an App for That! Richta Rally Updates
Your smart device must have the latest Richta GPS Checkpoints app versions before each event. We encourage you to click the link below and check out the many useful videos, documentation, and presentation links on the Richta Rally webpage, as well charts from the comparison between Richta GPS Checkpoints system[Read More…]
There’s An App for That! Rabbit Stages Editor and Richta Working Together?
Rabbit Stages Editor as timing support for a Richta-scored National Tour Rally: Great Potential deserving of future development. We used Rabbit Rally’s Stages Editor feature at Roads Scamper on Sunday, June 4th, by the SCCA Milwaukee Region. This app, running on my Samsung tablet via an external Rabbit Glo GPS, kept track of[Read More…]
MD: Sharing the “Good News” of Our Sport
My Dad was the spy in our family, yet I enjoy genealogy – delving into finding the answers, now using modern technology. RReNews contacted seventeen Rallymasters to bring you news of their events these past four weeks. In this edition, you’ll read the wonderful rally wrap-ups from eight requests (we hope others[Read More…]
Richta GPS Checkpoints “Best Practices” presented at SCCA Quarterly Zoom
I have found that the majority of questions and problem reports I receive about the Richta GPS Checkpoints timing and scoring systems are duplicates or have been experienced earlier by another rally organizer. In many cases, the problems experienced may have been avoided by following the guidance I’ve discussed in[Read More…]
SCCA Quarterly Zoom Get-Together b
The SCCA RoadRally Board has set the date, so mark your calendars today! Their next Quarterly Zoom Get-Together is Thursday, December 15, 2022. Join fellow SCCA Rallyists, 7 pm to 9 pm Central, at the last online gathering before the SCCA Convention in 2023. Save the date! We’ll share the[Read More…]
TX: West Texas Region Enjoys “Taste of Victory” Rally
On Sunday, September 18th, we here in West Texas Region SCCA ran our third Road Rally event and 1st TSD (Time Speed Distance) Rally — the Taste of Victory Rally. We have been trying to implement this for a very long time and were, fortunately, able to finally get our feet wet in[Read More…]
There’s an App for That – Controlling Checkpoint Detection
June 2022 CP Open and Close Times and Directionally Sensitive Checkpoints In the Richta GPS Checkpoints system, when a rally entrant passes a checkpoint, the Competitor – GPS Checkpoints app detects this passage of the checkpoint and generates a timeslip and a score; that is what the app is meant[Read More…]
SCCA Red River Region Returns to Rallying
It’s been more than a decade since Red River Region ran its last road rally. But, on February 20th, we ventured back into territory virtually unknown to most of our members with our Day in the Park Rally. The rally route covered a distance of about 55 miles on the back roads of[Read More…]