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Sun-N-Fun Precision Aerobatics (Pattern) Contest

Posted Sat, 01/09/2010 - 1:44am by admin

Richland Pattern Contest

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Event Time: 
Fri, 09/17/2010 - 7:30am - Sun, 09/19/2010 - 3:00pm

Welcome To The New Tri-City R/C Modelers Webpage

Posted Mon, 06/15/2009 - 11:22pm by admin
After 10 years, the old tcrcm.org web page was getting pretty dated. Newer technology, called Content Management System (CMS) gives a new look and promises to eliminate the webmaster middleman.

Under the old system, if someone had an announcement to post, or an event to report on, they had to create it in something like MS Word, send it to the webmaster, who then had to rewrite it in HTML and publish it onto the website. With CMS, club members with the proper permission can create, edit and publish the content using the tools of the website and without a middleman.

The main menu is in the upper right corner.
Info-- contains the bulk of information on what's happening with Tri-City R/C Modelers. It has special announcements, the President's Corner, meeting minutes, events schedule and event reports, and a variety of articles about a variety of r/c subjects.
Calendar--provides a calendar view of club and other events of interest.
Forums-- a typeical forum-based area where subjects can be broached and others can comment.
Photo Gallery-- an area where members can contribute photos to the galleries for viewing by all.
Weather-- a page of weather information for the area and site.
About-- a page providing an overview and history of Tri-City R/C Modelers.
Click HERE For Site Registration & TCRCM Member Instructions

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No Garbage Service

Posted Mon, 07/26/2010 - 7:39pm by Bill Bowen

Reminder-- we do not have garbage service at the field. If you haul it in, you need to haul it out. The City of Richland recently changed their garbage rate schedule and NOW CHARGE $10.00 to drop off any garbage. Previously, Richland residents could drop off at no additonal charge from their monthly residental rate. Not any more.

So please DO NOT leave garbage, broke planes, etc in the trash cans, or we will need to raise the club dues again to pay for garbage service.

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April Meeting Minutes

Posted Wed, 05/19/2010 - 12:00pm by linda

April 21, 2010 meeting mintues as taken by substitute Steve. Meeting was held at Rosie's Diner where several members enjoyed dinner and conversation before the meeting.

There were eight members and one vistors in attendance.
March minutes were read and approved.

Treasure report included expenses of $1,000. to Spring Green, $100. to L. Wallace, $450. City of Richland, for a total of $1650. Deposit of $1790.
Balance of $3205.49. Plus recent deposit of $315.

Field report

Saturday Work Party, the oneth of May 2010

Posted Mon, 05/03/2010 - 10:46pm by douglarson01
Getting close to the end

The east end of the field is dry and bumpy and shakes up the mower when it goes over it. Today we scheduled a small work party to install a couple of sprinkler heads in that end of the overfly. We tried to intercept the line feeding the existing pop up sprinkler farther to the west by digging a couple of cross trenches but could not find it. So we cut sod and trenched from the location of the existing pop up sprinkler and installed about 225 feet of 1 inch sch 40 PVC pipe and two sprinklers. We started about 8:30 am and finished about 2 pm.

Gordon Anderson Congrats!

Posted Sun, 01/17/2010 - 7:17pm by Rick Magnuson

In the February 2010 issue of QST, a magazine for amateur radio or "hams," there is an article about RC planes and, naturally, RC radios. In this article the outstanding work by our own Gordon Anderson is highlighted. Gordon has developed a process to the old Ace RC radios to allow the pilot to tailor the radio to his specific needs. The article even lists Gordon’s web site, www.mstar2k.com. Way to go Gordon!

elricko

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Rich Roland Passing

Posted Tue, 01/12/2010 - 7:59pm by Doug Larson

We have rather lost touch with Rich Roland since he has not been a club member for a few years. The following is from Marlys ?, sad development: I don't know who Marlys is but she sent this to Mrs. Frank Hirsch and forwarded to me Via Rudy Higgins.

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2010 - Annual Banquet

Posted Mon, 01/11/2010 - 7:01pm by Steve Sterling
2010 - Annual Banquet

Saturday night, Jan. 9 2009, brought a large group together at Sterling's restaurant for the Tri-Cities R/C Modelers annual banquet. Food was good, and the company was even better as the helm was officially turned over to new club President Bill Bowen.

Outgoing President Doug Larson was lauded for his successes and hard work over the last 3 years of administration. President Bill Bowen stated "no TCRCM President that I can recall put in as much personal effort for the good of the organization as Doug Larson." Everyone certainly agreed, remembering all the times we would be out there flying, and Doug would show up without an aircraft just to work on some improvement project or repairs.

During his tenure, Doug Larson successfully dealt with and managed several significant issues, including:

  • A new lease with the city with new demands from them. The new lease negotiated by Doug gives us more control of our space, expands the area to include parking lots and overfly areas.
  • Outsourcing by the City of the offroad tracks and overall site management. Through Doug's efforts, we have an excellent relationship with the new leasee, thus we work together with them well on common issues. As a result, many aspects, from water flow to offroad user control is far improved compared to our previous situation.
  • Through Doug's efforts, we have a new relationship with the Parks and Recreation Board. Doug has brokered multi-thousand dollar grants for site improvements. These include funds for a new handicap access restroom, fencing and concrete pad under the shelter.

Larry Mitchell had door and raffle prizes handled. I believe HobbyTown USA in Kennewick donated them. Please give me a correction if I am wrong about that.

2009 winner Kevin Glen announced the 2010 winner of the Clyde Crashcup award: Craig Christensen! Kevin said Craig had it hands down for all the off-field landings and sheared landing gear events on his OTOP.

Pictures to date are from Doug Larson. Please feel free to upload more pictures to this node. Click Album View below to see all the pictures taken.

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2010 - Polar Bear

Posted Fri, 01/01/2010 - 3:28pm by Doug Larson
2010 - Polar Bear

We had a good polar bear today. There was crusty snow all over the
runway but on a whim we got the runway mower going and used it for a
snow blower and cleared a strip about 8 feet wide and 50 feet
long..plenty for a few powered flights. I made one flight with my 300S,
Rob Opgenorth/Scot Schering flew the Dirty Birdy and there were some
other electrics that went up too. Engines don't like the cold very
well. We had some New England Clam Chowder that I made from scratch
yesterday and Bill's Elk Chili and Craig's Chile plus chips etc. No one

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Sticky-- About Combat Flight Simulator

Posted Mon, 12/28/2009 - 11:22am by Steve Sterling

There is quite a contingent of flyers in the Northwest that play Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator (CFS) online during the bad weather months. They schedule dates and times, and "meet" at a host's IP address to battle each other in WW2 simulated warplanes in the skies over Europe. The following is the basics needed to join them.

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