Troy's K-Factor column

[Anthony Romano]

Cd's have very little appeal when passed around your local club meeting!

Anthony

>From: "John Pavlick" <jpavlick at idseng.com>
>Reply-To: discussion at nsrca.org
>To: <discussion at nsrca.org>
>Subject: RE: Troy's K-Factor column
>Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 10:34:26 -0500
>
>Yeah, me too. I like seeing things in print (especially the photos) but I
>hate to throw things out so I end up with piles of model mags. With a photo
>quality printer and a CD burner this problem is easily solved - save the
>docs on CD-ROM and print the pictures you want to see. CD's take up less
>space than the printed copies so there's more room for airplane stuff. I
>wonder if it would be more cost effective to distribute mini CD-ROMs at the
>contests (to interested spectators) instead of the hard copies we have now.
>If you burn the CD with a generic name for the document (like:
>"kfactor.pdf") and don't finalize the CD image, you can re-burn the CD with
>a new issue (same filename) if there are unclaimed copies. I've done this
>with software archives under Win XP and it seems to work fine. You can't
>erase the file, but you can overwrite it as long as the name is the same.
>Better than throwing out a box of last month's K-Factors (that cost money).
>John Pavlick
>http://www.idseng.com
>
>
>  -----Original Message-----
>From: discussion-request at nsrca.org [mailto:discussion-request at nsrca.org]On
>Behalf Of Bob Pastorello
>Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2005 10:12 AM
>To: discussion at nsrca.org
>Subject: Re: Troy's K-Factor column
>
>
>   Two things.... One - Troy's writing is prolific, informative, and
>well-structured.  Kudos to you, Troy!!! Great work.
>       Two - The quality of content, and durability of an electronic file
>makes that my preference, hands down.  IF there could be some cost-saving
>schema for the NSRCA of giving an "electronic-only" option, you'd get my
>support for that!!!
>
>   (FWIW)
>
>   Bob Pastorello
>   NSRCA 199  AMA 46373
>   rcaerobob at cox.net
>   www.rcaerobats.net
>
>
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     From: Grow Pattern
>     To: discussion at nsrca.org
>     Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2005 9:01 AM
>     Subject: Re: Troy's K-Factor column
>
>
>     I've noticed that quite a few of us read the K-factor on-line these
>days.
>     Especially if they have a cable modem. I know I always do because it 
>is
>     there, and because I use my computer and web-sites a lot.
>
>     My question is, "do you then read the paper version when it arrives?"
>
>     Regards,
>
>     Eric.
>
>     P.S. Nice article Troy.
>
>
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     From: "John Pavlick" <jpavlick at idseng.com>
>     To: <discussion at nsrca.org>
>     Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2005 12:21 AM
>     Subject: Troy's K-Factor column
>
>
>     > Troy,
>     > I downloaded the latest K-Factor (haven't got it in the mail yet) 
>and
>I
>     > saw
>     > your 'Model Building' column. Nice work! The control linkage details
>are
>     > excellent. There are a few guys in my club (not pattern pilots) that
>     > should
>     > read this. I've tried to explain some of these things and even 
>showed
>them
>     > how I set things up in my airplanes, but they just don't seem to get
>it.
>     > Maybe seeing it in print will help. This is good stuff to have in 
>the
>     > K-Factor. Hope to see more in future issues.
>     >
>     > John Pavlick
>     > http://www.idseng.com
>     >
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