[NSRCA-discussion] Futaba and pattern

[Ron Van Putte]

OK.  What is REALLY needed?  I remember when we got 512 resolution  
and that was touted as Nirvana.  Then we got 1024 resolution.  Twice  
as good as 512?? Now we have 2048 resolution.  At what point did we  
start gold plating the real requirement?

I hear pilots talking about how they can tell the difference between  
1024 and 2048 resolution.  At that point my mind begins to wander.

Ron Van Putte

On Dec 22, 2007, at 5:19 PM, Bob Richards wrote:

> Ron,
>
> He is absolutely correct about the thumbs being less than 256  
> resolution. The problem is in trimming the airplane, the 256  
> resolution is not fine enough to trim neutral consistently.
>
> Bob R.
>
>
> Ron Van Putte <vanputte at cox.net> wrote:
> My "local R/C electronic techie' responded after I forwarded the  
> below e-mail to him.  Some of you may remember him; he's Curt  
> Oberg, a pretty fair Pattern competitor himself.  He's what Curt said:
>
> "Ron, yep, the MP8K is alive and doing well.  A few days ago, a  
> single stick was listed on eBay and the last bid was for $360.   
> Don’t know what it ended up being sold for.    As far as using the  
> Futuba/Jr modules with the MP8K, lots of guys are doing that all  
> ready.  The legality of using them on 72mhz has been widely  
> discussed but many of the MP8K users have HAM licenses and operate  
> on 6 meters so it’s not an issue for them.  A lot of them are also  
> in use overseas.  Several of the MP8K owners have converted their  
> systems to 2.4 gig and Dan Thompson in Kentucky is actively  
> pursuing making it compatible with all the different versions.
>
> "As far as the comment that it would not be suitable for pattern  
> because it’s only 256 resolution, I think that the resolution of  
> the thumbs resting on the sticks is even lower than that,   
> certainly in my age group.  When I was working and still playing an  
> occasional round of golf, I had a co-worker that was buying a new  
> set of golf clubs after just taking up the game.  He shopped  
> around, looking at different brands of golf clubs and one day he  
> showed me a brochure of his final choice for a new set of clubs.   
> The brochure claimed that their clubs were dynamically balanced,  
> harmonically tuned, perfectly fitted, etc. and I told him that I  
> would never buy those clubs because it would reinforce the fact  
> that I just suck at the game of golf every time I hit a bad shot,  
> which was fairly often.
>
> Curt
>
>
>
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