An excellent way of keeping in touch with latest developments in R/C Soaring is to subscribe to one or more of the specialist mailing lists.
Although the list may be maintained in a particular country recipients and information will be world wide.
Once you have subscribed to the list you will receive any messages sent to that list and will be able to send messages yourself. Get connected and see what happens.
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The Radio Control Soaring Exchange (RCSE) - US |
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 On line forum at FlyQuiet.co.uk |
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| FAI and CIAM | SoCal, Slope Racing - Inland Slope Rebals |
| The International Scale Soaring Association | R/C Soaring News Group via Google.com |
| Balsa Sailplanes | F3B at Home - blog |
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RCGroups.com have a wide ranging set of bulletin boards with, May 2004, seven devoted to R/C Soaring |
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Thanks to Charles Smith in Australia who
for a number of years hosted the lists for F3J, F3B and HLG. These three
stopped in January 2000 when Charles re-located to the USA.
The F3J list in
particular was extremely active and useful during the time of the 1st F3J World
Championships in 1998
Glad to say that Inge Balswick from Norway has taken over the lists and combined all three into FAISoaring, with over 500 people world wide signed up.
To post to this list, send your email to:
faisoaring@sv.uio.no
General
information about the mailing as well as joining instructions are at:
http://sv-lists.uio.no/mailman/listinfo/faisoaring@sv.uio.no
You can also make adjustments or join via email by sending a message to:
faisoaring-request@sv.uio.no
with the word `help' in the subject or body (don't include the quotes), and you
will get back a message with instructions.
Inge Balswick also offers the following service:-
As
being a member to several E-mail lists over the years, I've often wondered who
other is on...
Most list-programs have some kind of "who-commands", and in
return you often get a lot of cryptic E-mail adresses. These addresses rarely
has a match to the OWNER or the NAME of the person. Also when I suddenly need
someones E-mail address, where to find it???
To try to do something about
this, I've put together an automatic E-mail index, which has no other purposes
than exposing aeromodellers E-mail adresses, or matching Name & E-mail
adresses. Since the index is automatic, it will not generate a lot of work for
me if it grows, maybe to be the "Largest Aeromodeller E-mail Index ever"? :-)
So please go to the index and register yourself, Name & E-mail address,
so that others can get hold of you whenever needed! The index is initially
loaded with Norwegian/Nordic addresses, which makes the index already count for
apx. 240 addresses...
http://www.cirrus-rcfk.no/e-mail
PS! If you know your friend/buddy has an E-mail address, but no web-access, then maybe you can help to register him also?
Perhaps the most active of the R/C Soaring lists is The
Radio Control Soaring Exchange (RCSE) based in the USA.
Set up in 1995
by Manny Tau and Gordon Oppenheimer (Airage Publications); Mike Lachowski
(Model Airplane News Soaring Columnist, an Airage Publication) is the RCSE
listkeeper.
To subscribe to RCSE, send email to
soaring-request@airage.com, and
type subscribe in the text body by itself.
Your email address will
automatically be entered, and all email messages sent to
soaring@airage.com will be rerouted to
everyone on this list.
Two commercial organisations which provided mailing list facilities were Onelist and Egroups, these merged and were then taken over by Yahoo! Groups at http://groups.yahoo.com .
One of the gliding groups with Yahoo! is a very active world wide
community of F3F flyers exchanging e-mails and with a section where the
messages are stored together with competition results and graphics
files.
The e-mail address for this group is
F3F@yahoogroups.com
whilst information about downloading files is at
http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/groups/files
Onelist.com (then Egroups, now Yahoo! Groups) also has a HLG group at http://www.onelist.com/community/RCHLG.
Another HLG group is the one created for the development of Side Arm
Launch gliders and throwing techniques. Mainly American and based at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SALglider
The FAI - FÉDÉRATION
AÉRONAUTIQUE INTERNATIONALE - have over 20 lists for various aviation
subjects see
http://www.fai.org/general/lists.asp
CIAM is the areomodelling one with an e-mail address of ciam-info-l@fai.org
In June 2001 Kevin Newton, Editor of QFI asked via both ISA and F3F about other e-mail groups and the following surfaced.
The International Scale Soaring Association
http://www.soaringissa.org/
Inland Slope Rebals - USA, general slope exchanges together with PSS http://groups.yahoo.com/group/inlandsloperebels
SoCal Slope Racing from Southern California
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SoCalSlopeRacing
There was also mention of a "news group" at:-
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&group=rec.models.rc.soaring
No
e-mails from this one, you have to be on line and read the various "threads"
that are developed. It has been described as a "more civilised RCSE".
RCGroups.com listing and their description of the gliding groups.
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