News, Views and How-To's of Road Rally
From the Richta GPS Home Office in Kansas — March 10, 2024 Earlier this morning, I released version 1.39 of the Android Rallymaster app. This version contains a fix for a bug first reported two years ago. Identifying the root cause of the bug illustrates the care that must be[Read More…]
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…]
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…]
It’s easy to forget the outside world when you’re on a rally, you fall within the walls of the rally bubble and the rest of the world ticks by, but there are dates, like Armistice Day, that should not be ignored, events that should not be forgotten as we enjoy the freedom to explore this continent and country, something we might not have been able to do a mere 40 years ago, lest we forget.
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…]
The 36th Annual Get the Dust-Off Rallye will be held on Sunday, May 4th, 2025, sanctioned by the MG's of Baltimore and is dedicated to the memory of Richard W. Murphy. It will start and finish at Dejon Vineyards! This will be a GTA (Game, Tour, Adventure) style rallye of[Read More...]