<font color='black' size='3' face='Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'>Hey, I'm not NEARLY as old as RVP, but I flew with escapements, galloping ghost, reeds, Super regen receivers, etc. We flew one at a time because super regen receivers weren't selective enough. Newbies in this hobby have no clue how good and reliable the equipment is today compared with the crap, but then state-of-the-art equipment we flew with back then. I remember my Dad retuning his single channel tube receiver before every flight. I remember him tuning the reeds in his receivers. I remember chasing fly away airplanes when one of a million things went wrong, often because the flier forgot to rewind his escapement rubber band. I remember an article by Phil Kraft when he said that digital proportional systems would never cost less than $1000, and those were mid-60's dollars. I remember watching a guy with an early Space Control analog proportional system chase servo drift with temperature change throughout the day; he never did fly because things drifted so much he finally ran out of adjustments. I remember my Dad buying boxes of AA carbon-zinc batteries and soldering them together for receiver packs because sealed nicads didn't exist. I remember when a low pattern entry at the Wright Brothers Memorial Contest in Dayton was less than 100 pilots, and we flew pattern, pylon and scale all on the same weekend. Heck, I remember when radios were expensive and engines were cheap; how that has changed! I built a 4 channel digital proportional system called the Digi-quad, and I made my own transmitter printed circuit board from scratch.
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<div>It is stunning to me that we can buy a $60 computer radio system out of China, put aftermarket firmware on it, and do anything that the so called state of the art radios can do. Micro $2 servos that work! $10-15 2.4ghz receivers!<br>
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From: Bob Richards <bob@toprudder.com><br>
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<div>Yeah, right, whatever. :-)</div>
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<div>Ok, "At least I did not fly with a radio that required winding up the servos".</div>
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--- On <b>Sat, 12/4/10, Ron Van Putte <i><<a href="mailto:vanputte@cox.net">vanputte@cox.net</a>></i></b> wrote:<br>
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<div class="plainMail">Hey! We didn't have to "wind up the radio". We had to wind up the escapement rubber band. Big difference!<br>
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On Dec 4, 2010, at 10:09 AM, Bob Richards wrote:<br>
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> Showing my age? Yeah, I wrote Fortran programs in school - on punch cards. My first personal computer was a TRS80 MIII that I paid $1000 for, 16k memory and cassette tape program storage. I worked on point-of-sale systems ("POS" - LOL) that had 32k core memory. I still have a cash register board somewhere with core memory on it.<br>
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> Well, at least I never flew a plane with a radio that required winding up the radio. :-)<br>
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> Bob R.<br>
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> --- On Sat, 12/4/10, Bob Kane <<a target="_blank" href="http://us.mc11.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=getterflash@yahoo.com">getterflash@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> You are showing your age. You could see the
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> Bob Kane<br>
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> --- On Fri, 12/3/10, Bob Richards <<a target="_blank" href="http://us.mc11.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=bob@toprudder.com">bob@toprudder.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Core memory, I bet!<br>
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