Your other hobbies.

[aunt betty]

The pad is in my yard. Ken, the previous owner gave the neighbor free use of HIS tower. Ken was a ham radio guy, family friend, and he left the house to my mom in his will. Mine now.

[aunt betty]

Ken was a coastal watcher in WW2, stationed all over the pacific. He spent a couple years on Leprosy Island wherever that is. Sounds awful but the Japs never went there.

[aunt betty]

Olly, tell us all what this is. I know but would like to know if The Coast Guard ever used them.
It was Ken's.

[aunt betty]

Kite M-357-A.
Now, what's it do?

[Redbeard]

Olly. Look. This pad was destroyed by the city due to my next door neighbor and his high powered illegal CB base station. 250,000 watts. He got fined $25,000.

Warkock in his mom's basement?

[aunt betty]

Olly. Look. This pad was destroyed by the city due to my next door neighbor and his high powered illegal CB base station. 250,000 watts. He got fined $25,000.

Warkock in his mom's basement?

Naw, it was a crack-head biker named Don Johnson. He scammed poor old Ken out of quite a bit of money. I was very glad when he (Don) lost his house.

[The Duck Hammer]

Kite M-357-A.
Now, what's it do?

Flys?

[assateague]

Carries an antenna up.

[Olly]

It was used to raise a HF aerial. Was issued in survival kits stowed on planes.

[rebelp74]

My uncles reallt into that ham stuff don't know his handle though.

[one2many]

couldnt pay the fuel bill if i was to put it on a boat
the kid is driving us back to iowa and im trying to fuck off on the internet but having a hard time. 4g lte hot spot is slower then carrier pigeon right now.
Tman i do like your truck, want to build one like that myself.

Running on alcohol?

that one runs 100% nitromethane. methanol is cheaper then pump gas most places.it just dont have the kick im needing
the other new one that you can see the pipe on, runs VP Racing C12 that shit aint cheap either. shits just like coke,love the smell of it

[aunt betty]

I have an RC nitro powered aircraft, a nitro boat, and a 1/10th scale Losi LXT nitro stadium truck from the 90ś.
It' was a conversion kit. I won the Illinois State Championship in Nitro Truck using it. Forget what year.
I have the truck still up in my attic. It runs but if it loses one part...is done. There is an e-clip thatś custom...I had stacks of them but can not replace them anymore. One left...
Was in engineering school in the 1990´s. Got into RC to inspire me to try and design cars, planes, and trucks...never quite got there.

[one2many]

I have an RC nitro powered aircraft, a nitro boat, and a 1/10th scale Losi LXT nitro stadium truck from the 90ś.
It' was a conversion kit. I won the Illinois State Championship in Nitro Truck using it. Forget what year.
I have the truck still up in my attic. It runs but if it loses one part...is done. There is an e-clip thatś custom...I had stacks of them but can not replace them anymore. One left...

i still have all my radio controlled stuff from about the same time. should dig it out and move it home with me

[aunt betty]

Look familiar?
I put buggy tires on the front.

[aunt betty]

[aunt betty]

Hydro-drive. A viscous coupling...like in a real all-wheel drive car.

[one2many]

them tires still have lots of tread better go get a fresh can of fuel and let her rip.
i wasnt good enough at operating them. going away from me im solid but come at me i get all fucked up. same as with my airplanes.

[one2many]

betty look into the new kits they have. the high ennd custom shit we had back into the 80s and 90s. come stock in cheaper kits now
i ran Losi too

[aunt betty]

them tires still have lots of tread better go get a fresh can of fuel and let her rip.
i wasnt good enough at operating them. going away from me im solid but come at me i get all fucked up. same as with my airplanes.

On airplanes that are coming toward you left and right are backwards...
I learned to push my stick toward the wing that is low in order to raise it.
After you get that little trick, youĺl be fine. You have a trainer?
Get RealFlight demo version free online. It has a trainer and a P51 Mustang you can crash for free.

[aunt betty]

I quit the RC airplane club when some cocksucker ran his heli into our 4x4.
The club officers were there, jumped in their cars, and took off. (all I heard was a thump while I was flying my own plane.)
Nobody even told me to land and come see wtf just happened.
So I started calling them asking about how to make a claim on the damages to whatever itś called....AMA. Academy of Model Aircraft.

They told me to handle it and NOT to get MY insurance company involved. It dragged on for months until I got pissed off and called FLO at Progressive. Within about two days my truck was fixed.

To end...DO NOT JOIN the Champaign County Radio Control Club.
They are a HUGE club, have a lot of money, and the officers are dicks. Anytime a member dies, they swarm the widow, buy the stuff or get it donated to the club so they can pick through the best stuff and keep it. Assholes!

[aunt betty]

Carries an antenna up.

Exactly. Itś what Olly said.
In WW2 if a pilot was shot down, part of his emergency gear was a radio that went with the kite so he could signal for help and prove that he was alive. Not sure but I think it was a radio that you had to crank for power.