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General Forum => Open Chat => Topic started by: MAC40 on February 21, 2008, 08:54:07 PM
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Model airplanes have a rich history in ham radio according to this article:
http://www.eham.net/articles/18218
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I can verify that :D
I own 13 myself
Biggest one is 11 foot wing span. Piper J3 Cub.
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My former next door neighbor was a General Class ham and the only transmitters, receivers and transceivers he owned were all for RC aircraft and boats. He had some AWESOME toys. I asked Mike why in the world he didn\'t at least get an HF rig and work a little DX....... he asked me what I got out of talking to people I didn\'t know and wondered why I didn\'t get into RC modeling. :) Well, that wasn\'t exactly what he said, what he said was, "Why would I want to sit around talking to a bunch of old fat white dudes like you?" :4:
He was as smart as they come........ he drowned in Lake Hartwell while retrieving a boat that had failed. I miss Mike, he was a great neighbor and as far as hams go, the most different of us I have ever met.
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A neighbor of mine and his son are into planes pretty big. I know nada about them, but he claims that the one his son has cost over 5 grand. All I know is that they are really fast, and he is good with the controller. Give that baby to me and I promise you some quick kindling. :)
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My nephew is into model planes big time. He has scratch built a few. His biggest one is a DeHavalin (sure I butchered the spelling) Beaver. Its got a 6 foot wing span. It is awesome to see it fly. I used to have a little glider that I flew. I wasn\'t a great pilot. It died when I hit the barn with it wide open. :jammin: I leave the flyin to my nephew now. I just found a smiley on here making an obscene gesture! Did you guys see that? Good thing they don\'t have that on QRZ. It would get used daily.
73,
Chris
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I\'ve always wanted to try out model airplanes, I\'ve just never had the money :(
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I\'ve always wanted to try out model airplanes, I\'ve just never had the money :(
The little glider I had was about 80 bucks. It was made out of foam and plastic. It came with the controller and batteries. I crashed it 100 times at least before I killed it. I know $80 isn\'t chump change but compared to expensive ham equipment it isn\'t too bad. If you ever get one I highly recommend one of these because they can be crashed a lot while you\'re learning to fly. Just don\'t hit the side of a barn at full speed or it will look like this:blowup:
73,
Chris:whoopie:
:band: :band40:
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Thanks Chris,
I\'ll seriously look into it.