The only RC magazine I subscribed to was S/E modeler, a total waste of money if there ever was one. I get the AMA magazine and usually just chuck it when it comes, do you have to receive it with your AMA membership? I get my info networking with other RC guys and from the RCSE/etc, thats enough for me. I wont spend any of my money on magazines/etc, even if its only 30 a year. Walter
--- GG On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 09:34:28 Chuck Anderson wrote: >It' amazing how many people will spend thousands of dollars for the latest >fad in composite models and computer radios that basically do little more >than can be done with a Paragon and a basic four channel radio costing less >than $300 and complain about spending $30 for a year of RCSD. I suppose >it's the same reason they spend so much for a gas guzzling SUV that will >never leave the pavement instead of paying less than 1/3 third as much >money for a Corolla that provides the same transportation while burning 1/3 >as much gas. > >When I first began flying sailplanes over 30 years ago, I became a member >of the old East Coast Soaring society just to get their publication, >Sailplane. I learned a lot about model design from Sailplane. The old ECSS >became the National Soaring Society back in 1974. I was a district vice >president of NSS for 3 years and treasurer for a year before I reached >burnout. One of my memories of those years are about the people who >objected to paying $10 a year for the only technical publication about >model sailplanes while paying hundreds of dollars for fancy radios and the >fashionable sailplanes of the day. The same as today taking inflation into >account. > >While I find RCSE to be extremely useful, it is not nearly as useful as my >collection of Sailplane from 1972 until the NSS finally folded and my >collection of RCSD going back to issue #1. If I don't save a message on >RCSE, it is gone forever while RCSD and Sailplane are available in file >folders in my office book case. > >While I am in a complaining mood, I find the modern model magazines to be >far less useful and harder to read than they used to be. My collection of >MAN and Flying Models go back to 1948 and I have every issue of Model >Aviation, Model Builder, and RCM going back to the first issue so I know >from experience. I built a lot of my early RC equipment from the pages of >Air Trails and MAN. Today's magazines are printed on glossy paper that is >hard to read because of the glare and filled with color pictures that >provide little useful technical information. Give me a magazine printed on >glare proof paper containing good technical information and proper >drawings. Model Builder was all of this and was the best model magazine of >the last 50 years. I miss Model Builder. > >Today's magazines are filled with "purty pichers " for today's illiterate >generation. > >Chuck Anderson > >P.S. RCSE is not printed on glossy papers and has no "purty pichers' so it >can't be for the illiterate generation. > >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 with MIME turned off. > ____________________________________________________________ Get 25MB of email storage with Lycos Mail Plus! Sign up today -- http://www.mail.lycos.com/brandPage.shtml?pageId=plus 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 with MIME turned off.
