Bit-G clubs in Melbourne

[ph2t]

Hey guys,

is there any micro RC clubs in Melbourne? Or are they all just normal RC clubs?

cheers,

ph2t.

[PandaBear]

No BCG clubs that I know of, unfortunately.

The closest available are the fellas running MicroRS4 and MiniZ up at Hoppers Crossing, and also there’s a small group in Clayton or Cheltenham I think.

Why don’t you start one? 🙂

[micro_Amps]

Yep, I’ll be in that too.
A bit of local unity amongst Melbournites wouldnt hurt at all.
Get a bit of friendly competition going.
Or maybe not so friendly 👿

😀 uA

[ph2t]

Lets see if we can get enough people and see what happens…

Cheers,

ph2t.

What area are you guys generally? I’m near Moorabin.

[PandaBear]

City itself.

[micro_Amps]

I live near Frankston but commute to the city each day

[PandaBear]

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I live near Frankston but commute to the city each day

I knew others like that too… they were very well read fellas too, given the length of time they spent on that V-Line! 🙂

[micro_Amps]

That could be true, either that or they fall asleep for 2&1/2 hours and wake up at the zoo,….. which is still another 1&1/2 hours to get home.
Yeh, lol now, but it wasnt funny at the time.
Imagine waking up in the dark, looking out the window, and not recognising any of the graffiti that you are so used to seeing. First thing that comes to mind is “WHERE THE **** AM I???” :shock::sad:

**uA sighs as he remenisces…**

Ahh the blissful days of train travel……..:approve:

I gave it up a while back for the daily smog and road rage fix in the traffic. :angry:
Not quite so much reading happening now

[PandaBear]

There was one time I was on the Nepean coming into town… on a day where the train strike was on. Yikes!! Spent 3hrs+ sniffing smog, not funny. :angry:

[Pcain]

warrandyte way for me….close to ringwood.

check out my thread i got some stuff for sale 🙂

[Crom]

I’m in Rowville.

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[ph2t]

Hey Pcain, I’m just around the corner in Ringwood.

So there is five of us so far, not a bad start!

Anyone made any race tracks? 🙂

Cheers,
Ph2t.

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Edited by – ph2t on 13 February 2003 09:56:40

[micro_Amps]

Hey ph2t, check your private messages :smiley2:

[PandaBear]

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Anyone made any race tracks? 🙂

I got a big piece of cardboard with clean paper stuck on it.
Not gonna win any prizes but it works well.

Free to good home too! :blush:

[ph2t]

heh! I poured some olvie oil on the kitchen floor the other night and got some mad drifting!

Cleanup was hell though. What does anyone do for this?

ph2t.

[PandaBear]

You’re crazy!!! 😯

Just wrap sellotape around your tyres next time, and run on glass.

Less hassle from your mum I’m sure. :smiley2:

[Lazboy]

lol yeah people dont like cleaning up oil

ill be in for a club i live in geelong and think it would be FUN plus to race some real opponents ( sisters just seam to not have the racers edge LOL)

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[PandaBear]

Getting ppl together is actually the easy part… its working out frequency clashes that’s the main headache!!

I’ve bought & given away enough BCGs to field a grand prix, but we still can’t run more than 4 cars together.

Its very well ppl attending with single cars, but really to seriously race you’ll need everyone bringing 4 cars *each* on different freqs. Then you can have different races with different racers.

And to make it fair… no hopups! 👿

[micro_Amps]

Harsh (but understandable) rules being set already, and the club is not even formed yet.

Sounds ok tho, I guess with the compacts we might go up to 5 at a time, but we may still have interferences towards the lower end of the frequency range.

Anyway, count me in. :approve:

[PandaBear]

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Sounds ok tho, I guess with the compacts we might go up to 5 at a time, but we may still have interferences towards the lower end of the frequency range.

We have trouble with the 35/40/45…

Haven’t got a 49 which might help – may run ok with 40 – but this still only gives us 4 cars, either:
27/35/45/57 or
27/40/49/57

Sigh, can’t win… 🙁

[ph2t]

What bandwidth is needed on the controllers?
It seems to be anywhere from 8 to 12 MHz.
Surely not that much b/w is required per controller?

ph2t.

[Shypo]

u need at least 8 cos i have trouble with 5mhz difference

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[ph2t]

hmmm,… what can we do?

uA you have any clues? I’m stumped…. Short of narrowing the bandwidth of the RF stage in the RX (and I have no clues how to do that anyway..)

If we used crystal mods and tuned the ferrite coil on the RX very accurately could we decrease the b/w needed?

Otherwise it’s a hall setup with lead partitions for everyone!

ph2t.

[Crom]

Oh boy… This is getting interesting… I’ll leave the headaches about the freqs to others, but ask a different question… Do we have a track yet?

And PandaBear, I assume that by ‘no hopups’ you mean that we all race with the Aussie compact standard Nicad, 2.2, orange gears, medium tyres? Otherwise my poor Celica won’t have a chance with 1.0 motor and all… 🙁

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[PandaBear]

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And PandaBear, I assume that by ‘no hopups’ you mean that we all race with the Aussie compact standard Nicad, 2.2, orange gears, medium tyres? Otherwise my poor Celica won’t have a chance with 1.0 motor and all… 🙁

Ya, if trying to organise racing I’d suggest we keep it “stock” Compact Char-G with the 2.2, but anything slower is permissible. We could even be free on the gears and tyres too… just no extra batteries on dual Bits etc.

Depending on track, a *slower* car could be beneficial!! 👿

[PandaBear]

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Otherwise it’s a hall setup with lead partitions for everyone!

Haha, that lead box is a darned good idea… for we’ve found when we finish racing and the next heat starts, the last lot of cars are usually still half charged and they go heywire!! 🙂

Currently we either stand them offground on little erasers, or walk them 30′ away to the next room.

[micro_Amps]

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uA you have any clues? I’m stumped…. Short of narrowing the bandwidth of the RF stage in the RX (and I have no clues how to do that anyway..)

The b/w of the Tx is quite good because it is crystal stabilised (eg 27.000Mhz)
The problem as I see it is mostly with the Rx. It is not crystal stabilised and will pick up just about any signal that is strong enough and that conforms to the input ‘codes’ it is set to receive regardless of the carrier frequency. If you were to introduce a crystal filter into the Rx it would probably filter out the code pulses for the various functions.

ph2t check your PMs

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for we’ve found when we finish racing and the next heat starts, the last lot of cars are usually still half charged and they go heywire!!

What about a micro on/off sw on the chassis. That would allow you to charge up without running around while others are racing

Anyway, this is getting off the topic.
Stock cars and only factory hopups is fine with me…lets do some racin’…..:evil:

:)uA

[ph2t]

Hey Panda, we could have a stock car race with regulations and an “anything goes” race as well.

I just scored lots of old wooden sheeting in the garage of my new place, I’m thinking of a track idea coming on……..

ph2t.

[ph2t]

Hey guys, for all the Melbourne based turkeys I’d like to organise a get-together some time in a few weeks. Not for racing, just more of a get-to-know-you sort of thing.

What’s everyones thought on the matter? Do we want to meet at a pub? Or is there an issue with ages?

I was talking to Micro_amps about this today and it sounded like a good idea. The Sydney people seem to be getting things going, I’m sure Melbourne can too.

Let me know,

ph2t.

[DaveF]

If you take out the motor until you’re about to race, people get to see what motor goes in, and the only frain on your car from other controlers with the same frequency is from steering.

When we race at work, we all synchronise charging. This way we all have a full charge when the race starts. I was trying to record 45 seconds of hold music for the charge sync, but figured it’s just get annoying.

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DaveF! 👿
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[Crom]

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Hey guys, for all the Melbourne based turkeys I’d like to organise a get-together some time in a few weeks. Not for racing, just more of a get-to-know-you sort of thing.

What’s everyones thought on the matter? Do we want to meet at a pub? Or is there an issue with ages?

I was talking to Micro_amps about this today and it sounded like a good idea. The Sydney people seem to be getting things going, I’m sure Melbourne can too.

I’m up for a meet… Sunday arvos are probably the best time for me… I’ve got no other commitments then. A pub is okay for me. (Heh, trust an engineering graduate to pick a place where he could drink BEER!):clown:

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[Lazboy]

pub sounds good only i couldnt drink unless i take a train DAMMMM P plates and y cant we have a little race on the bar spilt beer makes great drifting lol

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[PandaBear]

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…A pub is okay for me. (Heh, trust an engineering graduate to pick a place where he could drink BEER!):clown:

Figures…!
(but I was more into the choccie appreciation society…:D)

Only problem is a pub/bar is that… do you really wanna be
playing little geeky cars in Melbourne public like that???!
1) you’ll have no peace to even think of racing
2) there’s chance that you might not be leaving with your car.
3) ditto surviving with full set of teeth/bones/skull
Hmm.. or should I be looking for different pubs to patronise..?!

Anyone got access to a tute room, boardroom or something?

[DaveF]

The BCG GP in Japan use a bar from the sounds of it, though I believe the bars there are very different to ours – lots of private booths and private rooms.

I don’t think you have to try and have it in a Devils Henchmen frequented pub. Try ringing around the RC clubs. Maybe they have a place you could race, and a bar of sorts in house, or they might frequent a local pub that whould thus be RC friendly.

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[micro_Amps]

How about an indoor basketball court or tennis court, if we want to have a drive session that is.
For a purely social ‘meet and greet’ session, I think a pub would be fine.

[ph2t]

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For a purely social ‘meet and greet’ session, I think a pub would be fine.

That’s what I’m thinking…. Meet first, get pissed, slag each other and make spurious comments.

Then race!
:smiley16:

ph2t.

[Lazboy]

ummmm then why the pub i know some one might not want to just invite people to there house but is there a hobby shop or something that has a track or some thing we can always bring booze

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[ph2t]

A mate of mine is a member of the Prahran Club. It’s a nice big hall and it has a bar!!!! We’ve had some pc meets there in the past. I’ll talk to hime and see if I can set something up. To be realistic about the timeline, well it wouldn’t be for a couple of months. And there might be a donation of a few bucks to the club to cover operating expenses. But, it’s huge. We could setup one nice big track. Might even bring my webcam……………

Let me know what you guys think.

ph2t.

[Lazboy]

yeah sounds good dont mind a golden coin or two for some seoiours racing mabye organinize a huge purchase of bits ect

get jnh to sponser it for the launch of the series 2 cars

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[PandaBear]

Huge track idea is unnecessary, as (1) its huge work and (2) you’ll have range problems.

[ph2t]

Would a 3×3 metre track be huge?

[PandaBear]

3x3m is the size of a bedroom (if you’re lucky!) in one of those modern city apartments these days. How are you transporting it?? 😀

[Lazboy]

can we bring pur mini z as well lol
3 m track should be fine

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[ph2t]

simple, I don’t have one! :smiley2:

trying to make one in my garage, just bought a house in tha ‘burbs so I got a bit of space….

ph2t.

[PandaBear]

Buy a pingpong table… nice size, folds up in the garage and is probably useful for other stuff too. (Like pingpong?) 🙂

[ph2t]

So anyone up for a meet in a few weeks? If we wanna race I’ll look further into booking the hall (will be a small cost involved). If we wanna just meet-n-greet at a pub that’s cool as well.

Anyone know a good pub? (Married life makes me forget my old watering holes:smiley2:)

ph2t.

[Lazboy]

yeah im ready

a chance to race or meet people that like these cars insted of friends saying there cool but i wouldnt spend $50+ on them lol

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[Crom]

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Anyone know a good pub? (Married life makes me forget my old watering holes:smiley2:)

ph2t.

The Nott? *lol* :smiley2:

Nah, I’m up for either a meet and greet or a race. I’m guessing we’ll need a pub in the city for whoever it was coming in from Geelong…

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[micro_Amps]

Yeh, I’m in. I live way out of the city so if you nominate the place and the day (prefferably a Sunday) I’ll be there.
uA:)

[ekwj]

anyone here living on the west end of australia?

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[ph2t]

OK, Micro and I have been talking and we are going to setup a meet next Saturday 26th April at a pub just to have a meets ‘n greets sorta thing….

Details will be given soon, in the next couple of days.

Cheers,

ph2t.

[Lazboy]

sweet hope i can make it

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[Crom]

I should be able to go… 😀 I was afraid I missed it since I haven’t been on the forums for a while.

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[Lazboy]

guess it ant happening coz it is fridya night and there is know word of whats happening

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[ph2t]

Lazboy, it IS happening. Check the thread here.

ph2t.

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