K-Factor vision of the future.

[Kenneth Blackwell]

I tend to agree with Wade's comment on download time. I would guess that the file size could be considerably reduced if the graphic content were reduced to a more reasonable resolution. The current graphic resolutions are probably aimed at the printed media....so, we must take this into consideration for an online document. I still think that .pdf is the best format for distribution.

Thinking about printed matter. I was wondering if it would be useful to have a "NSRCA Users Manual". The manual would contain everything that a new pattern or seasoned pattern flyer needs to know about NSRCA/AMA pattern. The current rule book (appropriate sections) could be included. It could be updated annually and provided to members and prospective members at contests, by mail, on-line, etc. Some thinking would have to be done to insure that all members have access to the information...especially those not connected to the Internet.

We need a way for pattern product providers to get the word out...so we can find what we need...and they can peddle their wares. Maybe the Users Manual would be one option. A special edition K-Factor once or twice a year. Of course, links on the web site should go without saying. If we can get our overall costs down, we could change this to an information basis rather than "advertising for sale". One problem with the advertising in the current K-Factor format is the high resolution formats required by big vendors...like JR, Horizon, Futaba, etc. This type advertising is one reason for the LARGE .pdf file sizes for the current on-line K-Factor. I would propose listing all comers on the website, providing website/email links as well as phone/address information. The same list could be provided as an appendix to the "Users Manual"

In all of the above, my vote would be to dump the current monthly K-Factor and use more expedient means to get the news out. Since, I'm connected on-line the K-Factor is of little benefit to me. Yes, I realize that there are those who aren't connected and we have to get information to them...but not in the format of a monthly publication that we can't afford or achieve...thus far. If we have to have something on a periodic basis, a simple 2 sheet letter from the "management" would suffice.

All of the above isn't the do-all to end-all...it's just food for thought. I'm not adamant about anything.

Cheers,

Ken Blackwell
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Wade & Barbara Akle 
  To: Discussion rc NSRCA 
  Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2002 7:33 AM
  Subject: Re: K-Factor vision of the future.


  I may have missed somebody mentioning the excessive size of the present k=factor downloads of 5-7 Mbps (:<
  I have great admiration for our web-site team and thank them for it al the time. And, I am for having the k-factor delivered on the web.

  One question is how come I get to download in pdf format all kind of manuals and pages of information larger than the k-factor in a reasonable time and yet have avoided the k-factor because of the time it takes?? 

  Until the download time on a 56 kbps phone line gets down to less than a minute or two, we have a losing proposition, leaving a lot of us without the k-factor.
  Wade
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