Subj : New hobby
To   : Digital Man
From : Spaceman Spiff
Date : Fri Jan 05 2001 12:10 pm

RE: New hobby
BY: Digital Man to All on Fri Jan 05 2001 01:21 pm

 > I got "into" a new hobby over the past month. Check out www.zagi.com. It's a
 > blast!
 > 
 > Rob
Very cool, Rob. If you get into it heavy, you may want to consider getting the
NO-CODE HAM Technician License, a lot of guys into remote control planes get
the HAM ticket just to use some HAM freqs for remote control operation.
A guy as smart as you could study the Tech manual and pass the test in a week.
Several of our local HAM are heavy into flying planes, in fact I remeber the
one guy talking about going out to help look for a downed aircraft on a
conversation on 2 meters. A couple guys thought he was talking about a real
plane until he explained it was an RC aircraft. They put a radio beacon in them
helps to triangilate on them when they are lost in the woods or fields.
The price doesn't look to bad.
When I was younger, my brother and I used to fly the little gas planes with the
control wires, I crashed a few those in my day. hehe.

One of the HAMs I know had a nice RC Helicopter, well till he brought it in to
fast. Ouch.

These little electric models look pretty cool.
Which one did you get?
I am looking at the page now.

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