Amateur Radio
Communications Support
for the
American Diabetes Assn.
Tour de Cure
Zebulon to Manteo
May 5/6, 2001
 We're Behind 'Em
Course
and map tools
The Tour begins at Five-County Stadium (home of the Mudcats baseball team), near Zebulon.  Overnight is at the Green Acres campground, south of Williamston.  And the finish is at Festival Park in Manteo.  Below is a map of the whole route.  This doesn't have much detail, but it should be enough for hams and clubs to see if there's a rest stop nearby that they would like to "sponsor" communications for (that means provide the operators, and do whatever other "demo" activity you want). 

To the right are links to detailed maps.  Your best choice if the "All Maps" file, if you have Adobe Acrobat and can open "pdf" files.  That's a large file, about 2 MB, so it'll take a while to download if you have a dial-up connection.

If you can't read pdf, you can use the 10 invididual maps.  It takes that many to provide enough detail of the couse.  The files are fairly large for the web - most are a little over 100k, so if you're on a dial-up, it'll take a few minutes to see them.  You might want to save them to disk to avoid a long download again.  And they don't print well from  browser - you'll have to bring them into a graphics program to print them.

DECODING THE MAPS
In the maps, each significant "element" of the route has a number for reference.  The numbers are a little cryptic because they're shortned to a 6-character format that works for GPS receivers.  There are a total of 69 elements, with #00 being the starting line in Zebulon, and #68 being the finish line at Festival Park in Manteo.  Here's how to decode the element numbers:

  • Turns: 01 RT = turn 1 - Right Turn (on the air, just say "turn 1")
  • Rest Stops: 03RS1A = element 3, Rest Stop 1 - Saturday (RS1B would be Rest Stop 1 - Sunday) (on the air, just say "rest stop 1")
  • County Lines: 06 CL = element 6, County Line (the first two county lines crossed, right at the beginning of the course, are not marked) (on the air, call this "County Line 6")
  • and a few Crossroads: 02 CS = element 2, Continue Straight.  (on the air, call this "turn 2", even though it isn't a turn).
I also have the Street Atlas files that made these maps.  You can use these files to create a route in compatible GPS receivers.  I'm having trouble putting them on the web for FTP (never done that before).  If you want them, send me e-mail.
sat sun 1 sun 2
All Maps (pdf file)
revised 5/2/01 to correct errors
and add "Repeater Coverage"