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Heya J,

Sorry didn’t get to read this earlier, been AWOL for a few wks.

Hope your Melb trip went well!

cheers,
willy

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Nunawading don’t have much empty land left, except towards Scoresby.

Got Carrington Park (Knox) not too far away either.

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Hardwiring the xtal can make it a pain to change…

hope ya guys know you can buy “xtal xtenders” from LHS, the plane guys sometimes use them.

Or you can buy xtal female sockets from Jaycar (I think). I bought them some yrs ago, they probably still stock them.

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betty.k wrote:

so what does this mean for us average bruces, do we need documentation for our radio gear?

if i bought 72mhz radio gear would it get seized at customs?
Not illegal to buy or possess… if you turn it on, that’s a different issue.

But to import for resale/distribute stuff is a different matter.

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Aaron wrote:

There is a Bricks & Mortar hobby store up for sale out in NSW I would love to buy but just don’t have the cash to do it.
Investment-wise, running a LHS would rate about as good as buying TLS shares @ $5.82. For me anyways…

(ahh, have a thought for the poor mums-n-dads who paid $7.40 in T2!)

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Aaron wrote:

It looks like a Melb. trip will happen for Kitty and I – guessing some time after the 20th of April and probably during May.
Cool! hopefully you’ll be in town for a week or more??

Set a date in stone and we’ll hit TFTR for sure.

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yay!

What does it get as a present… renewal of the URL?

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RC is not an addiction (which by definition is CURABLE) but a Veneral Disease that, once it enters your bloodstream, you will have to live with for the rest of your natural life.

There is no known cure.

Usual symptoms of RC mania is wallet athrophy (wallet always empty), with secondary afflictions of having bits of RC gear laying everywhere. You know you’ve got it bad when you go buy video games that feature RC… recommended titles are ReVolt, RC De Go and Team Losi.

One can reduce the disease’s harmful effects by staying away from further contact; usual temples of temptation are commonly known as “Local Hobby Shop” and echoed in bibles such as “RCCA” (I buy it just for the articles, honest!).

It is not yet known if the RC disease is genetic or hereditary, but anecdotal evidence is suggesting it usually afflicts humans of the X-Y chromosone. Those of the Y-Y persuation usually acquire immunity or at least abhorence to the RC idea; certainly the afflicted XYs outnumber YYs by about 5000:1.

Although it is a serious disease, carriers are usually able to live their full life expectancy (nb. carcinogenic effects of nitromethane only in State of California – sorry Arnie). Most are able to live a relatively “normal” lifestyle, usually by suppressing their RC interests during reproductive periods (ie leave their toys in the shed, not the bedroom).

But this noxious disease will soon spread once the afflicted’s offspring reaches approximately 4-6 years of age… whence the X-Y carrier will inadvertently get tempted to propogate the “joys of RC”.

There is No Escape.

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Lada Samara… got a Brock Polariser on that?? 🙂

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Aaron wrote:

Anyways if you have any career suggestions I’ve got an open mind and an easy ear. Is now a good time for Kitty and Aaron to leave Canberra? Where would we go?
Methink you should move to Melbourne [:)] and open
a 1:1 speedshop + cafe to tinker with with big toys.

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Taking too long to install your FETs might see your soldering iron sit on them for long enough to toast them… did you take more than like 30secs to solder them on?

Could be something else on your board that’s damaged; or perhaps think about the piggyback “Whoa Nelly” creation.

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Aaron wrote:

Well I think either of those will be looking at the tailights of hte new Aaron & Kitty mobile… (see pic)

LYNX … Kitty Mobile … hmm…..

What’s happened to the MiXer5?

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Funnily enough… we shot off to Ballarat on Saturday from early morning coming back late afternoon.

Bit of a duststorm at the Ballarat Airport … followed by a slight sprinkle of rain, which just cemented all the bulldust onto the duco.

Had to stop off at Melton to do a car wash, was wondering why Melbourne looked so wet…

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Aaron wrote:

Hey everyone,
Betty.k has taken on the role of Moderator looking after you rowdy bunch 😉

He joins microAmps and PandaBear as well as KittyKatSmack and myself.
So many mexican southerners, we’re definitely outnumbering the northern banana benders!!

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If anyone’s wondering what Bunta’s shop is using after Takumi took off with the AE86…

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The screens are made by Samsung and Sharp… if Sony had insisted on Zero dead pixels on their suppliers, methink the PSP will be at least a $10,000 unit.

Does the job fine as is.

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My Jap PSP has a few dead pixels (Sharp screen), but they’re so small it doesn’t bother me.

Pretty darned hard to find any without… find any shop willing to let you check out the screen before buying?

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We ran a few heats but got rained out by mid-morning unfortunately.

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I have two plans…

Plan A) Unwind properly and compreshensively – hopefulyl recovering a bit more from the ijury that”s kept me on 3 day weeks for the last 2 months

Plan B) Enjoy riding my new motorcycle 🙂

You gone bikie too?

Have only done less than 90kms on the two-wheeler since August… but that’s still over an hour in the saddle given the little thing only does 55km/h at WOT. Damned dangerous in traffic being so slow.

Should really get around to testing for the licence…

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I haven’t seen the ‘magazine’ in the newsagents lately… have they gone ‘Subscription-only’ already…

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betty.k wrote:

well $60 aint too bad is it? at least the tx will come as one (will be a stick tx though)

Think ya gotta pay $100+ for the radiogear separately…?

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z-beam wrote:

you gotta ask yourself the question, do you use any homebrew? is it as enjoyable as gta?

Haven’t quite had time to investigate homebrews yet…

Plus the big Duo stick I bought last month is taking the slow boat, probably won’t arrive for a few mths… so I got nothing to load onto anyway.

ahh, if it does insist on v2.0 — methink that’s a good excuse to buy a new WHITE machine…

(unless bleeding Sony brings out a shiny Chrome or a shiny Gold one first!!)

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i picked up liberty city stories today and its blown my mind. how the hell can they code more than gta 3 to run on the little psp. its damned amazing to see working.

Z-B:- can you pls confirm or deny that Liberty needs v2.0+ to run…?

Or can it live on v1.50.

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I’d be the last person you’d ask on Signal Comms … but I’d have my suspicion that the PSP (natively) wouldn’t know how to deal with a USB keyboard…?

PS2 & xBox (the controllers use USB signals) are like PCs themselves, the USB is for ‘input’.

Whereas the PSP’s USB is like ‘line out’ sorta like the USB on a digicam or a mobile phone? Like the USB is used to connect to a PC which treats the memcard like a mountable disc.

hmm… how to test if PSP knows what’s going on? Anyone got a PSP wordprocessor??

I got a few dissected USB cables that I can rig up with jumper leads, and a USB PC keyboard won’t be too hard to dig up.

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All USB signals are ‘standard’ and plug adaptors are easily bought, but dunno how you can hack the PSP OS to recognise any KB?

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z-beam wrote:

december 2nd aparently panda for gta here in australia. but if you treasure your 1.5 firmware then dont hold your breath for it, it wont run without an upgrade to 2.0. something to do with the 2.0 firmware being compatible with more video formats than 1.5

if you are going to upgrade firmware, make sure to only go to 2.0.

Dang! guess that 2.0 requirement that’s ‘worldwide’ too, so no point shipping a copy in from Japan.

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Was flicking thru the Myer xmas flyers whilst on the john last nite.

GTA is out?!

Sims 2 should be out in about a month!! this xmas gunna be fun(ner)

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