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Hahaha …
croc hunting is illegal. I can see you don’t live in NT Jamie.
What the law says and what reality is are two different things.Nobody shoots crocs up north like nobody shoots roos down south. Crocs are controled legally too, but you’re not allowed to shoot them… you have to trap them first, then you can shoot them for it to be legal.
(I’ll avoid the jokes about what they use for bait)Illegal Drugs… nobody uses them either.
Kids.. don’t do drugs.. there is a time and a place for everything.. it’s called University. The federal government determines what rating material gets. Each state has a different level of handing it.. like in NSW, it has to be in a sealed plastic bag if on sale in a place where minors can get access. Fireworks you can get a permit for, but most people don’t bother.
Any fireworks you can buy here are big time lame compared to what you can get at “Pedro’s – South of the Boarder” (South Carolina) or Tijuana Cherry Bombs, M-80’s YEAH !!!
Australia has become just one big police state.
I like the good old days when the burns unit got new arrivals every june.
Kids learnt to respect fire by getting burnt.
Pain is the best way to remember something.A Canberra is also a plane .. A Bomber actually.
Not many of them flying anymore.Hahaha …
croc hunting is illegal. I can see you don’t live in NT Jamie.
What the law says and what reality is are two different things.Nobody shoots crocs up north like nobody shoots roos down south. Crocs are controled legally too, but you’re not allowed to shoot them… you have to trap them first, then you can shoot them for it to be legal.
(I’ll avoid the jokes about what they use for bait)Illegal Drugs… nobody uses them either.
Kids.. don’t do drugs.. there is a time and a place for everything.. it’s called University. The federal government determines what rating material gets. Each state has a different level of handing it.. like in NSW, it has to be in a sealed plastic bag if on sale in a place where minors can get access. Fireworks you can get a permit for, but most people don’t bother.
Any fireworks you can buy here are big time lame compared to what you can get at “Pedro’s – South of the Boarder” (South Carolina) or Tijuana Cherry Bombs, M-80’s YEAH !!!
Australia has become just one big police state.
I like the good old days when the burns unit got new arrivals every june.
Kids learnt to respect fire by getting burnt.
Pain is the best way to remember something.A Canberra is also a plane .. A Bomber actually.
Not many of them flying anymore.Didn’t we basically have that already by
linking through to the gallery ? 🙂Didn’t we basically have that already by
linking through to the gallery ? 🙂When you fly hang and paragliders… the word..
“WEDGIE” ! doesn’t have much to do with the elevation of your underware, more the colour of it !I haven’t been attacked by one, but I have seen people attacked and in different ways.
The standard attack is the bird dives at and hits the nose. They only ever do this once …
It seems to give them a headache they don’t forget. Some will sit on the back of a wing and tear it with their tallons. At Canungra, the wedgie’s learned how to pull out battons from hang glider wing tips. This is funny if it’s not you, scarey if you see the bird dismantling your wing while you’re still using it !!I’ve also seen magpies learn to thermal soar by watching hang gliders. Really weird thing seeing them learn to soar from humans.
Yes, everything in china/HK is clustered.
All the plumbers in one district, all the electronics in another (Tsim Sham Po) and Radio control and guns in another (Mong Kok).
I can think of a cluster of about 25 shops all beside each other that deal with just RC especially mini-Z.
With the Asian bird flu, now is a realy good time to book a trip to SE asia.
Malaysian air have a fare for $600 to BKK via KL, and from there it’s $200 to HK.Mmm… 70’s and 80’s video games.
Got mame running here…. been playing Amigo lately.If only you could see those shops in HK 🙂
Congrats Kev … I think you know hold the title of oldest fart here 🙂 I pass the batton tuz ya !
you digusting old fart, wish I was 31 again.
I’m going to bash you with my walking stick !
🙂Bads new old fella…. the young punks will whip your arse !! Your only way to beat their lightening reflexs and young flexible neural network brains is …. CHEAT !!!
If you have a teenage daughter … bring her along … take advantage of their hormones.. poor buggers won’t be able to drive straight.
Ever seen what happens to a young fella’s driving when he’s >0.08 testosterone !
Not pretty ! their face breaks out in zits and they loose all co-ordination. 🙂Cheating is the only respectable way to win.
I present my evidence as the following…Shane Warne. Cheating has done him wonders.
Dasterly Dan, and his dog Mutley ! Nobody remembers any of the other whacky racers !
I’m sure I can think of lots of other fine examples of cheaters that have made their mark on the world. 🙂
A little project I did a few years ago.
http://cheatthezone.tripod.com
Still makes me laugh when I think back about the caos I caused 🙂Anyhow …. Just stuck the Mini-X on the rectum paralyser (spectrum analyser) and the receiver is a downmixing single conversion 455KHz receiver.
The transmitter frequency is 27.660MHz, the receiver xtal of course says the same frequency, but it is actually 27.205MHz.
27.660 – 27.205 = 0.455 Vola ! I can also see that small red plastic 455khz filter on the circuit board.
So the old tandy xtals will work in your mini-Z.yep dgs … at the momemt, I’m tied up… moving house over the next few weeks. I’ll be free to organise something in about april if you can all wait that long.
Nar, definately 455KHz or 10.7MHz.
The reason is filters are standard off the shelf items for these frequencies.If they are 27Mhz, then there are 3 combinations..
~27-16.3=10.7Mhz (rx xtal oscillator is ~16Mhz)
~27-26.5=0.455Mhz (rx xtal is ~26.5Mhz)
A double conversion could also be used but this is unlikely. [27-16.3=10.7-10.2=455khz]
The third option is what is called ‘direct conversion’
27-27=Baseband Data.Gimme a couple of hours to get home from work.
You can have crystals made cheaply for your controller that aren’t the standard 12 channels too. I’m not sure what the RX if offset is, but I’d guess it was the standard 10.7/455khz (I’ve never needed to check it) you could use the good old tandy CB/handphone/Marine xtals for less than $10 or whatever they cost these days. Or just order a custom frequency from somebody like brightstar crystals or Hy-Q.
As for a track, I would think it would be simpler just to hire a squash court or indoor basketball court.
I keep hearing of rumours of an indoor track on the north shore somewhere near dee why, but nobody can cough up an address etc.The ACA doesn’t police much to do with radio these day Aaron, they sit on their arses until the problem goes away or somebody paying big licence fees kicks theirs.
The last raid I heard them doing was on UHF TV senders. Most of them tuned to about Ch30-35.
They hit parklea markets and confiscated a few, but they were back the following week.
They didn’t even bother with radio equipment that ran on 433Mhz, like walkie talkies when we already had UHF CB for that. Thankfully, the problem solved itself too… the UHF CB versions out sell the 433’s.
The BCG cars don’t follow the radcom regs in this country and in theory if they wanted to kick up a fuss they could do so easily. Lucky the problem solves itself in this case too. They are very low power and don’t radiate much past the walls of a room. DSE and the like do put a little bit of thought into some of their material.
All their planes have been 27MHz. It would have been rather ugly if they had been 49MHz and had to be sent back.I’m not sure what the go is with the warfies,
they cry poor but somewhere in there I smell a scam. I could think of ways to bring them down to size, but the problem then becomes… if they can do it to them, they can do it to you.
In any case it seems that grasping the nettle is not something our leaders prefer to do. Either that or our nettles have bloody big spines !Bali like most indonesian provinces and second and third world countries hold their savings in cash USD. It makes me if the kids at the airport in Dili, East Timor are begging for $1 USD or AUS.
Which reminds me, most things come from China, so it is Dollar to Yuan exchange rate. There is a lot of pressure on China to raise it’s exchange rate. The government pegs the rate against the US$.
It keeps the rate low to attact manufacturing and employment.
It means that there is plenty of work for cheap chinese labour, and because their exchange rate is poor, so are the people.
When and if the rate is let float, china will be extreemly rich and the chinese will have massive buying power.
They will have all the factories, all the jobs and all the money 🙂
Long term future for china is looking good.Edited by – trash on 19 February 2004 20:06:07
Hmmm.
Having traveled a bit and having very good manufacturing contacts, you’d be horrified if you knew what your latest investment cost to make and who got their cut and how much that was.An example is a standard Mini-Z…..
After the initial setup costs of moulds etc
Your Z leaves the factory in China for about $20 with 1000 other Z’s.
They turn up in HK where they get destributed and exported for about $30 each in batches of 300.
They end up in a container… if the importer is smart, he owns the container and has it full to the brim with other products and if he’s even more clever, he has something to put in the container on its return journey.
By time the container lands here and has the duties and taxes etc paid, they’re about $50 each on the dock.
They then get split up again by the importer to the wholesalers (who are often the importer)
where they double in price. Wholesalers have small overheads.. they just store stuff, there is no shop. So they are now in batches of 20 or 50
at the wholesaler at a price tag of about $100 each.
The Retailer orders them in and the markup is usually about 200% (or more).
Their overheads include giving a warranty, dealing with consumer issues, shop rent, insurance in case some kid knocks out his brother with a nerf ball. etc. Electricity and finally wages.. with a bit left over for profit.Some of the smaller shops import directly from Asia and of course, their retail price reflects that.
There is room for the little guy in there to undercut the big guys if you’re prepared to invest some money and work hard to sell your stock.
When the big LHS does this… prices don’t get cheaper, they just get bigger profits.
Example … The RC planes that DSE sell (outlaw)
leave the factory in China at $7usd each in batches of 3000.
Big shop, Big profit, and Big overheads.Welcome to economics 101 🙂
uA, what frequencies do they come in… will have to design a little 10db amp for the purpose of an extra 100m or so 🙂
no… though I haven’t played much with them lately. I haven’t done much of any RC work lately.
Busy with work and a few other things and weekends I’ve been flying while the weather is good. Not much rain this month.Last time I ran them on a track as such, it was using some garden house as the barrier and the track was a W shape. I got a few laps in before hitting the barrier.
good question….
I don’t have any batteries in the controlers at the moment, and I can’t remember if they are proportial throttle. They are most likely 2 speed.They are the Genuine Kyosho… so you’d think they were made in Japan. Zzzzt. Even japan is getting the Chinese to make stuff. Which explains why they are cheaper in HK than Japan.
Having said that, they are of japanese quality.They track straight, They actually have a trim control…. I prefer to make mine track off center in combat so that they sweep their aim as they move.
They are slower than the BCG tanks.. but not as power hungry. Overall, they are much better quality and speed really isn’t a factor in combat.
Precission pays off if you’re trying to nudge the turret around a corner and not get shot.Their IR range is about 2 metres.
They don’t have much clearance, but then, they don’t really need it. They climb over most terrain without too much problems.They don’t have movable turrets, the new models do, but I haven’t seen any yet.
They are quite smart and you set many different combat modes and handicaps etc. They even have the capability for teams, which is a lot of fun.
I prefer to use mine on the coffee table with several boxes and mirrors. Makes combat more challanging if you don’t know where the shots are coming from.
Are the rotor’s syncd with a driveshaft like a real eggbeater or are they free.
It would be messy if they didn’t mesh correctly.
I saw a glow plug one in wings and things a few years ago. Mmmmm…Wish I had that much luck with batteries 🙂
Sounds like your landing was through rotor (turbulence). The air rolls like a barrel across the ground you could say. It happens to passanger planes occasionally, the results are pretty much the same. On a big scale they are called microbursts. Usually caused by cold air falling.
As you come in to land you get a sudden upsurge,
so you power down and nose down. (this is fatal)
as you move forward you fly into fast sinking air,
already with the power backed off and nose down,
you get smacked into the ground.In your case it sounded like you got the strong front, which pushed your nose up to a stall.
Your response I’m guessing was power off, when it should have been full power and try fly through it.You’ll live to fly another day 🙂
Digi-Q is the way to go. he jaycar tanks look ok, though a little tacky compared to digi-q’s.
Digi-Q is the way to go. he jaycar tanks look ok, though a little tacky compared to digi-q’s.
Zzzzzzzzzzzt.
“I did a massive stall and lost all airspeed at low altitude, and it landed vertically”couple of points here….
low airspeed = stall
stall = bad
stall + low altitude = very bad !
landed vertically = CRASH !!!You might like to practise landing and flying in ground effect.
Nar 1:1 means my paraglider and hang glider.
GA is easy to do, anybody can do it, but it’s like burning money. My old man let his GA lapse.
Whenever I fly with him, I fly and he looks out the window for a change. Did lots of powered flight stuff when I was in the AirTC.
Powered flight pilots are really nervous people,
they sweat a lot, so they need a big fan to keep their cool !! 🙂People often ask, isn’t like dangerous to fly without a motor, how do you stay up ?
Well, there I was flying along and I thought to myself.. “HOLY SH1T the motor has stopped !!”…
hangon.. I don’t have a motor !If the wings are what make it fly, how come qantarse planes need engines ?
Did you see how I took off ? Well picture 145 passangers pushing a 767 along a runway !You’ll get to stanwell sooner or later…
weather is always the decider.wings are cheap, and even then they’re easy to fix.
Golden rule with fixing wings……
the top surface must be as smooth and as perfect as possible after gluing it back together.Almost as important is the leading edge, it should also be as smooth as possible.
The under side and trailing edge aren’t that important, but you should try and keep them smooth just to help reduce drag.
5 minute epoxy and fibre tape are your friends !!
Too busy flying 1:1 lately. Was up central coast today.
Thought you might have been down stanwell doing that tamdem… has been good weather lately 🙂
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