IOMICA Forum

On another discussion group there is a conversation going on about the proper way of marking your hull with its certificated number. I was told, when I started in with this class a few years ago, that the wording in Section C of the rules meant you had some nicely done letters and numbers stuck on t...

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My Electronic Engineer points out that it is not really a part of the radio control unit but a device to monitor the battery and if you wire it correctly, not through the Rx, it is likely not even part of the radio. There is no restriction on the battery so if it is actually a part of the battery th...

Maybe, this could be stretching it but, the answer is to certify the hull (which is all that the form really addresses anyway) and not check any of those boxes. It doesn't really say they need to be checked. Then you can present forms for each rig or set of rigs that you may create. A kind of intere...

Morgan - Incomplete answer last time.

Downhaul tension change didn't help any of it.

Thanks Ralph that is my discovery. I am keel stepped so the mast ram is in place. I used to just run it back until it just touched the mast before loading the back stay. Now I am so much smarter that I can finally use some more of the tools!!! Morgan - Now for more ignorance on my part. Seems I used...

On my "good" boat I found that similar condition when I first built its rigs. I was trying to be trick so I carefully bent (pre-bent?) my masts, built them up and put them on the boat and found what I thought was that same condition. Way too much tension just to get the mast back to straight. Then a...

I don't have any real heartfelt reasons to change what we are doing but why not just state that the materials are free and then it is at least acknowledged and validates what we are letting happen anyway. If it is stated now then if we collectively decide something is not right there is a platform t...

As a non-combatant I'll putin my two bits worth. I can say nothing about how the event was run, operated, overseen or any of that on site stuff but I'd say that for those of us who had to stay home the coverage was tremendous. The race by race results, delivered in a most timely way, some of the bri...

Good points Marko and you are completely right that an RMG is really hard to beat. I had a 5955 in a boat and it worked great until teh person sailing it got tangled with another boat and left the sheet control pulled all the way in. The way in which teh boats were tangled didn't allow for the servo...

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Pretty close to right Marko. There are however telemetry modules for the RC car crowd so the capability is there and some ingenious electronic person will figure out how to adapt that to record and send sail position, heading or something that may (or may not for me at least) offer some performance ...

I guess if the flexability to deal with the change through an emergency procedure while maintaining the protocol for normal circumstances is in place then that would be the right path to follow. If the proposals are withdrawn from the already set agenda and substituted with the emergency procedure w...

I have just spent the last few hours trying to find the DSS/Spektrum reference relating to the change in C.5.3 (c) in the 2007 CR. I finally found a copy of it and would include teh whole thing here but I can't do an attachment so here is the relavent section. To me we have clearly allowed for the u...

Andy, Sorry to take such a hard position but following on the heels, kind of, of the last group of bundled rules changes it should have become executive procedure to never accept anything that isn't handled one item at a time. So the common sense is to do the right thing which is to have the resolut...

So this is all out the window until the next time there is a WC meeting? There is an organization that is set up to fail its members. I stick by my previous description and add that there appears to be no allowance for any degree of common sense to prevail. If I was voting individually I am even mor...

Greg, You aren't caught out at all. That was a good add on to the question because I don't think many understand the technology in use or just how it is being used in other forms of RC vehicles. I do remember that some time ago there was a discussion that raised the issue that there is the potential...

Old (2003) C.5.3 (c) Except for control unit positioning information, no radio transmissions from the boat shall be made. New (2007) C.5.3 (c) Except for control unit positioning and radio link information, no radio transmissions from the boat shall be made. I'll dig through old email, etc. if neede...

Out of all these "discusions" it is becoming increasingly clear who we should not vote for. All these "discussions" are doing is tearing apart a class for a wonderful boat. In the end this is primarily just a hobby but it is a hobby to encourage the sailing of model boats not one that is meant to be...

Yes it can and for RC cars there are telemetry modules already on the market. I thought that C.5.3 (c) was written to address the 2 way communication of 2.4 systems and if my memory is correct then we have already recognized the use of the technology. For me, at least, that's all I need, another dis...

I think that it actually meets the test of almost everyone based on the opinions expressed here. A small sampling to be sure but very likely representative of reality. On the wording side though you really have it. Whatever the wording is needs to cover technology and not brand names or else it will...

Probably wishful thinking but thanks for taking that initiative. I did a bit more digging (not that much but a bit) and I guess the Futaba system is not in this mix as much as I had originally thought. Although the receiver has two antennae it appears that the Tx only transmits on a single channel a...

Henry, Andy, Thanks for the prompt reply. I slipped on that by reading too quickly, thanks for being thorough. maybe that's a question that should come off the form as that equipment is easily something that can and will be changed out following the initial fundamental measurement and so that would ...

Henry, What measurement form are you using? I presume this to be some standard event measurement form as the form to measure a boat for certification has no radio section that I can find. It is missing a bunch of other stuff as well but that is another discussion. I haven't been to all that many reg...

I didn't ask it very clearly, maybe not even as a question, so here it comes. Is the only questionable receiver the Spektrum AR7000? Or are we talking about any of the 2.4 systems that utilize dual antenna configurations? My understanding is that the technology between the 6 channel Spektrum receive...

Lester, Don't ever believe I am calling you stupid (I don't think you said I had) but the discussion has completely left the technical discussion phase and is now a process discussion which should happen somewhere else. Of what little I may already know about the class and the boats, a lot of it cam...

I was going to address this to an individual but then that gets personal. But this discussion is stupid!!! There is no technical discussion going on here. All that is happening is that certain individuals are trying to be right at some lofty degree of assumed superior intellect. All that is coming a...

Well, this has disintegrated into more BS that has little to do with common sense or that actual topic. I'd suggest we start a new Index heading called something like "Bashing" and have this type of "discussion" take place there. There is little discussion going on here just a lot of posturing and l...

A phone call would likely clear it up but my guess is that if you try to buy either of the pieces to the two piece receiver you will be told that they are not available as separate piece, only as a single unit/part number/functioning accessory. But maybe a clarification is needed to cover the "two c...

The Event is now complete and the results can be found on the US IOM NCA Forum. Peter van Rossem successfully defended his title against a good fleet of boats.