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Nigel’s Tell Tales Update….!!

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Looks like we have to try some Fly Float spray from the fishing shop. Very interesting story of evolution and experimentation here :-

https://www.nigelbarrow.co.uk/post/more-work-on-tell-tales

Futaba T6K Transmitter Range Test….!!

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This is a no news item in reality!!! It seems that a Futaba is a Futaba as far as range is concerned. I thought we might see a difference as the T6K is distinctly older tech than the T10J.

This morning I ran up the T6K Futaba with R3006SB Receiver in a glassfibre hull (IOM) with the lid on …. in the same position as all the other tests.

Within about a metre, the T6K/R3006 radio gave identical range to the T10J/R3006 – in the same league as Radiomaster TX15 with a ceramic aerial ER3Ci Receiver. On a straight line of sight, you can go a jolly long way. Let’s call it 200 metres.

As the boat today was a glass fibre IOM (K2) there was no need for an antenna frame – the beautiful SailboatRC pot has threading holes to position the antennae appropriately.

Weekend of 21/22 February….

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Five of our members were on the Circuit this weekend. Nigel, David and Vernon went to the IOMs at Poole and Rohan with Graham went off to the RG65 at Bournville.

Rohan did great – with a 4th on a Saturday in a big-name fleet and got 3rd on Sunday ahead of Dorian !! Rohan reports the Snickers Chocolate bar was good!

Down in Poole it was slightly blowy, but David sailed an absolute stormer finishing 2nd overall !! (David in a V12 I think.) Great to see David doing so well. Nigel grabbed a 5th which ain’t half bad when you look at who was sailing !!