[RCSE] Polecat Challenge pictures

2006-06-19 Thread Charles Frey
For any of those so interested... My pictures from Polecat Challenge '06 are posted at: http://photo.charles.cc/photos/view.php?dir=2006.06.18+Polecat+Challenge+Hand+Launch+Contest Cheers, -Charles RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" request

Re: [RCSE] Challenging Battery Capacity

2005-09-30 Thread Charles Frey
Looks like you should have enough capacity for 6 hours of flying. I wouldn't worry. -Charles Mark Williams wrote: Awesome air in Big D today. Took the day off to get in a little warm-up for the TNT next weekend. Hope you guys plan on attending and I look forward to seeing all that come. The

[RCSE] ECHLGF/DESS contest?

2005-07-20 Thread Charles Frey
All this talk of HL contests on the west coast has got me jealous. Will there be an ECHLGF this year, and is so, is there any information on dates yet? -Charles RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note th

[RCSE] YASOIHLGFP - Yet Another Set of IHGLF Pictures :)

2005-06-29 Thread Charles Frey
Hey guys, Quoting Oleg Golovidov, "But it is still fun to look at [the pictures] while the memories are fresh." Well maybe it's been so long since the event now that it be fun to look back recall the fun you had. Anyway, here are my pictures from Poway. I've got a pretty speedy camera (8fps), s

Re: [RCSE] Mid-South question

2005-06-19 Thread Charles Frey
Yes, from the folks at the top, skegs are allowed as the Mid South. The quote from the other email is "Will allow any/all forms of skegs." So there you go, straight from the horses mouth. -Charles On Sun, 19 Jun 2005, Allan/Tara wrote: > Could someone in the know post a definitive answer as

[RCSE] new John Deere airfoil

2005-04-21 Thread Charles Frey
Coutesy of another mailing list: High Flying Lawnmower - http://www.3d-nut.com/videos/skycutter40.wmv I hope this hasn't made the rounds here already, sorry it has. -charles r52h159.res.gatech.edu[128.61.52.159 RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscrib

Re: [RCSE] An R/C Probability Brain Teaser

2005-04-06 Thread Charles Frey
22 gives a probability 99.58%. -Charles Darwin N. Barrie wrote: 22. DArwin N. Barrie - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 5:48 PM Subject: [RCSE] An R/C Probability Brain Teaser All this talk of synthesized radios and channel conflicts remind

Re: [RCSE] Signal strength switch?

2005-03-31 Thread Charles Frey
Sorry, my bad, I mean that the first couple hundred feet show more signal loss than the those last several hundred. And that actully supports my idea, not the other way around. Oops -Charles Charles Frey wrote: I believe the original proposal was to normally transmit at 1/2 or 3/4 power, and

Re: [RCSE] Signal strength switch?

2005-03-31 Thread Charles Frey
I believe the original proposal was to normally transmit at 1/2 or 3/4 power, and then have the switch activate full power. I think it's a pretty good idea. We could be saving a lot of battery by transmitting less power when we're close, especially handy for things like park flyers where you'

Re: [RCSE] Profi Multiplex 4000

2005-03-12 Thread Charles Frey
I think you mis-understood that about the EVO. The mixer declaration is global, but the amount of mixing is not. Also, there are 5 predefined mixers, and 14 mixer slots, so you can define plenty more mixers of your own. So, for my EVO, I have a mixer for say, the elevator output, that mixes the

Re: [RCSE] Mid-South 2005

2005-03-07 Thread Charles Frey
ATLANTA!! June 24-26! Hi guys, the 2005 Mid-South is going to be in Atlanta this year. Sorry if somebody else already replied with this info, but I didn't see any such email. We'll have the hotel information up on the web pretty soon here, but blocks have already been reserved, so no need to

Re: [RCSE] Wurts on The Military Channel

2005-02-05 Thread Charles Frey
Hey David, Yeah, I saw that show and remeber exactly the clip you're talking about, but I missed Joe. -Charles On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, David A.Enete wrote: > Did anyone notice Joe flying (monitoring) what looked like a PicoJet Combat > UAV on the Military > Channel tonight? > > - David > > > RCS

Re: [RCSE] 555 antenna length

2005-01-26 Thread Charles Frey
A totally non-resonant antenna would transfer 0 power and you would receive absolutly nothing. -charles On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Bill Swingle wrote: > The mentioned theories are good. But our RX's don't use resonant antennas so > the tuning of the antenna doesn't really matter too much. Use ~41 inc

Re: [RCSE] RF Synthesizer

2004-12-22 Thread Charles Frey
No, synthesizers are not the same as using a crystal, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't use them. Their spectrum may not be quite as clean as a crystal set, but they're still within spec if they're working properly. Synthesizers are "tuned" just like a crystal set is. "dial-a-crash" refers to

Re: [RCSE] New era or just hype?

2004-12-09 Thread Charles Frey
And how about that battery life... "providing nearly 3 hours of flight time." -charles RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format wi

Re: [RCSE] flying on 72 in germany ?

2004-12-06 Thread Charles Frey
What I'm not trying to do - tell anyone what to do. What is bothering me about an underlying attitude that seems to exist - You really can't know who is actully on that channel. And that channel belongs to that person, he expects it to work, and he might depend on it to work. He may have also p

Re: [RCSE] Antenna Wire

2004-11-20 Thread Charles Frey
I can understand one strand of flexible wire being a problem, but piano, I don't agree with. The only way you're going to break a peice of piano wire is a sheering force that cuts right across the wire. If you've just broke your piano wire antenna, I'd bet that not your only problem. :) -Charl

Re: [RCSE] "Lots of First for me this year! Hotlanta was an F3B ball today"

2004-10-31 Thread Charles Frey
Well, no offense to Gordy, but when your Base B turn is signaled by the guy at Base A saying "yeah, that's about it, ROLL, TURN!", we don't worry about notifying FAI. :) -charles On Sun, 31 Oct 2004, Marta Zavala wrote: > Gordy, surely you must be a fairly experienced F3Ber. I mean 14 second

Re: [RCSE] Cliff Where Are You?

2004-10-27 Thread Charles Frey
http://www.atlantahobby.com, that's him, his number is on there. -charles On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, wrote: > Cliff, how do I get a hold of you, PH# please. > > Marc > RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and > "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please n

[RCSE] FS: Scanner

2004-10-18 Thread Charles Frey
Hey Guys, I have an Icom IC-R2 for sale. It has all the 72 Mhz air band frequencies pre-programmed for R/C use. The radio covers from .5 Mhz to 1300 MHz, AM, FM, and WFM (WFM is usally TV stations and FM broadcast stations). The radio is computer programmable. I've also found it has *great*

Re: [RCSE] Help identifying a glider

2004-10-04 Thread Charles Frey
Opps, sorry, I was repsonding to a related, but different email.. disregard. -charles On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Dan Neelands wrote: > All, > > Could someone please ID the glider shown at > > http://www.rockisland.com/~neelands/9-4-2004%20%20145.jpg > > http://www.rockisland.com/~neelands/9-4-2004%20%

Re: [RCSE] Re: Radio Shack parts for plug/switch?

2004-09-10 Thread Charles Frey
I think that's a bit extreme, my Xterminator Pro has been running it's whole life with a standard (looks like one straight from radio shack) 1/8" audio connector for charging/on-off switch. It's worked great and never given a problem. -Charles On Fri, 10 Sep 2004, Charles Eaton wrote: > You

RE: [RCSE] Antenna Info

2004-08-13 Thread Charles Frey
Guys, The system is made to work with less than optimal antenna position. If we could all have RF transparent planes with the right structure for mounting a precision cut antenna, then great, like the man said, we could all fly our planes even further past that mile we can't see them at anymore