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This week we had planned a special guest for our 239th show but it seemed that, for the second week in a row, the service we have been using to stream the show just failed to work. We rescheduled the guest for next week and then, on the fly, started trying out other live-stream solutions. Well, in a matter of minutes we had something that worked, so the result is this very unprepared-for show. LoL

I will be testing extensively the new streaming solutions I have found over the next few days and when I find something that will work for us, I'll post the link to the site on Facebook and Twitter so you guys will know how to find us next week. :)

LINKS:

Low Voltage Alarms: From Venom, RTFQ With Display, RTFQ Without Display

2 Axis Brushless Gimbal and Gimbal Controller

IFLYOS Blog

DeaconEye sUAS Blog - "It Just Won't Flatspin"

FAA Endorses AMA Rules For sUAS For Ag

FAA Releases It's Roadmap To UAS Integration

Amazone Drone Deliveries? (LoL)

Weather Channel Interviews AH's Cliff Whitney

Fox Interview With Flite Test (VERY nice spot!)

OpenBuilds is LIVE

AllThingsCrash (Sponsor Gift Program, OPQ Info)

After a short delay due to technical difficulties beyond our control, we finally got our 238th installment of the show off and running. This week we are without Karl, but we pick up David Windestål from FliteTest! We had a great time visiting with our favorite Swede and talked about all kinds of stuff RC and, well, OTHER stuff, too! LoL

A couple of reminders:

1. If you haven't already done so, be sure to check out our "Sponsor Gift Program" over at AllThingsCrash. It a great way to support our show, as well as have an opportunity to get one of three cool gifts!

2. If you've been wanting to snag one of my "OPQ" Frames, you can get it from ReadyToFlyQuads, as Witespy has exclusive distribution rights to this great Quadcopter Frame. When you're there, be sure to pick up everything else you need for this project all from one convenient website!

LINKS:

TransAmerica Tour 2014

FliteLab (Loads of info and some great products, too!)

DIY Theramin (Fun little DIY kit for the kids)

David's Overkill FPV Groundstation

Some Thanksgiving And Black Friday Sales:

   WMParkflyers Turkey Hunt (Click the turkey and win an airframe on Thanksgiving!)

   FliteTest 15% Off Thru November

   Altitude Hobbies 18% Off Black Friday Sale

   Precision Aerobatics Black Friday Sale

   Check RCGroups For Other Sales

In this 237th installment, we share our week of fun, answer a few questions, and get into a little discussion regarding clubs, flying sites, and PIDs. Also, we've added an additional item to our "Sponsor Gift Program", so you'll want to check this out, for certain.

A quick announcement for  all of those that have been inquiring about the OPQ frames I manufacture: I have been distributing all of my frames through ReadyToFlyQuads. This is the best way to go, since they already sell all of the other gear we recommend for outfitting this great little frame!

LINKS:

OPQ At RTFQs

Jason's SketchUp Tutorials

Durafly Auto-G Upgrades

FPV Cockpit Groundstations

AceSim JoyRider

PID Wiki

PID Tuning Theory

Foldable Batteries?

Sponsor Gift Program

In this 236th installment of our show, we are all in the workshop and even have a special guest to help us do our best to cover just about everything FPV that we can think of. We welcomed long-time listener and personal friend, Korey Balint (Shadow102) to the show and he helped us to fill in some of the gaps with this fast growing segment of the RC Hobby (both fixed wing and multi-rotor).

I preface the show with some bad news regarding the quality of this episode, so I won't rehash it again in here, but please understand that this issue is just as frustrating on our end as it is yours. We are all cursing Microsoft today (Skype was a great tool until MS got their grubby mitts on it!).

LINKS:

Early Electronics Enrichment (Please consider lending a hand!)

Karl's New Charging Case (80 Amps HERE!)

TransAmerica Tour 2014 (They're looking for pilots!)

Tim Has An ADS400Q (Pics, Tim!!!)

AMA Safety Code

AMA Advanced Flight Systems Committee Report

A Great Place To Start For DIY FPV Stuff

DIY Diopters For FatShark Goggles (Great Article!)

DIY FPV Goggles

Antennas 101 (Superb video for polarization, diversity, and gain patterns)

ReadyMadeRC (Where we get OUR FPV goodies)

ARRL (A good place to start for getting that HAM license)

Frequency Allocations In The U.S.

Nanny Cam Example (for getting your feet wet on the cheap)

FatShark

FoxTechFPV

HeadPlay Combo

Trimersion Headset Info

Sony 600 Line Camera

Flite Test Long Range Video System Shootout

The reason for the name of this particular show is totally related to the "technical difficulties" experienced with the internet, Talkshoe, and Skype. No worries, though, as after about 4 hours of editing magic, this 235th show is actually quite listenable. LoL

This week, we have a friend and long time listener of the show on! Tom "Damage" Minnick had an opportunity to attend the DC Drone Users Conference and he tells us about some of the cool things he was able to take away from this meeting. Thanks go out to Tom for hanging in there with me to finish this recording, as well as our LIVE listeners that stuck it out (but to no avail). Hopefully we can get things sorted out so this type of thing doesn't happen to us again.

LINKS:

Spitfire 944 (Amazing and historic must-see movie short)

Yusuf's Blog (Lots of cool projects from a friend in Germany)

The SQuiRT In The AMA Museum

Aerial Photography by, MA and AMA

Plans-Build Webinar, by MA and AMA

Damage's Warehouse FPV

CrashCast Sponsor Gift Program

In this 234th installment we cover a surprising amount of ground! There's a bit of news, some info on how you can support our show AND get a chance to get "gifted" some cool goodies, we get to hear Karl's second part of the interviews he did while traveling abroad, and we debut a new segment called "Ask Witespy" where we bring on our Multi-Rotor Guru to field questions regarding the newest facet of our hobby that is totally sweeping the nation!

LINKS:

IFLYOS' Blog

Flying 2 Fight Cancer Event (Also on Facebook)

RC Fun For Halloween From Tom Mabe

Another RC Halloween Trick On Gizmodo

A New PecanPatch Video Surfaces

Embracing New Technologies (AMA Has Our Back!)

FLIP Quad At Dusk (KarlK Thrashing Vid)

KarlK OPQ Testing

Definition Of "Karling"

Sponsor Gift Program (Support Our Show!)

Also, you may want to consider popping in sometime to our LIVE audio stream of the show every Wednesday night at 7pm Central. You'll get to hear the show as it happens, mistakes and all), but best of all, you get to participate in the Post Show that never gets aired. This week, Dadde stopped by and hung out with us and we had a blast with our favorite Swede!

Our 233rd installment of our show sees us all back in the workshop and streaming LIVE! Join us as we reminisce about Karl's trip to the Indian Summer Jamboree in Washington State and Crash, Tim, and Nav's trip to HHAEFI. Trust me - LOTS of fun was had!

Also, buried in this episode is an announcement worth repeating here again. West Michigan ParkFlyers has a neat giveaway slated for Halloween. The basics are that on October 31st, open your browser and hit up WMParkflyers. SOMEWHERE on the site there will be a PUMPKIN hiding out. If you're the first one to find it, CLICK ON IT! One lucky person will have the opportunity to purchase one of WMP's fine kits for only ONE CENT plus standard $7 shipping. SWEET!!

LINKS:

UMX SBach 342 (Crash's first AS3X plane)

V252 Quad (Crash WON one of these at HHAEFI! Thanks, Romeo!)

SimpleCopter (Matt was at HHAEFI ripping it up with these!)

We Saw TC3WINS Representing DIYQuadcopters And XAircraftAmerica

FancyPicker's Testing Of The V252

Tim Flying Crash's FLIP FPV

NavionFlyer's First FPV Experience

Shadow102's HHAEFI 2013 Vid AND The HHAEFI Balloon Vid

Bildo's Videos: HHAEFI #1, HHAEFI #2, HHAEFI #3, and HHAEFI After Dark

A very special THANK YOU goes out to all of the friends of TheCrashCast Crew for making us all feel so welcome at Indian Summer and HHAEFI! Dougbo and Hance (as well as many others) accepted and entertained Karl, and deserve a pat on the back for dealing with "that guy from Canadia". :)

Thanks to PCPhil for sharing his camper, "jar", and coffee with us. Phil is a stand-up guy and one that I am so happy to call my friend. Thanks to Cathead Biscuit, HatefulGravy, and Brent for all the laughs. Thanks so much to Shadow102 for sharing his PREMO FPV Quad and sharing his knowledge in FPV with us! Also, thanks go out to AlanFlorida for the "Unicorn Love" shown. LoL And, finally, thanks to the Stahr family and NavionFlyer for the "unusual" birthday presents. :)

Oh, I almost forgot! Thanks go to my buddy, Bildo Baggins, for sharing his infinite wisdom, unique humor, and great video skills! No event in GA is complete without the clown!

In this 232nd show, we finish last week's conversation with Radical Dave, and we finally let Tim get around to sharing what all he's been up to. As it turns out, Tim has LOTS of cool things to share!

We will resume streaming our show LIVE as we record it again next week on October 23rd, at 7pm CDST. Come and hang out with us!

In this 231st installment, we get to visit with an old friend - Radical Dave from RadicalRC! Dave is finally getting to cool his heels a bit, as the grueling show season has come to a close for him, and we take an opportunity to do a little catching up with him.

Some quick notes as to our personaly schedules: Karl will be traveling south to meet up with Dougbo and Hance in Reichland, WA, this weekend (Oct. 11-13th) for the Indian Summer Jamboree, so if you're in the area, drop by and say HEY! Also, it's looking like Tim, Navionflyer, and I will be attending HHAEFI October 17-19th, so again, if you're in the area, stop by and say HEY!

LINKS:

Spektrum DX8 Price Drop

Jeti Announces The DS-14

Radical Flight Boxes And Tx Cases

Flyzone P-38 (It has Dave's Seal Of Approval)

MassiveRC Now Has The V252 And V262 In Stock!

DraftSight CAD (FREE!)

Graphite CAD (about $40/month)

Mudman's Night Flyer (only 400 LEDs LoL)

RTFQ's New 32bit ESC

RTFQ's New LED Controller (GREAT PRICE!)

RTFQs Now Sells The OPQ! (A One-Stop Shop experience!)

Congrats go out to our winners this week. That Nick Guy won a Minimum OSD and JStiltner won a Power Distro Board - both prizes courtesy of ReadyToFlyQuads (Thanks, Witespy!)

Please note that our next LIVE show will be Wednesday, October 23rd, at 7pm CDST HERE!

In this 230th installment of our little show, we have the opportunity to visit with a gentleman that has offered many of us the "gateway drug" to Multi-Rotors - Romeo (aka MassiveOverkill) from MassiveRC! You may recall that quite some time ago, we got turned on to a little quadcopter (thanks to Hance letting us in on it) called the V202 Scorpion. That little quad (complete package RTF for about $50) proved to be so much fun and so much bang for the buck that we ALL had to get one! LoL I think you guys will enjoy the story of how Romeo started it all with online sales and how he's been able to transform a bunch of "toy grade" flying thingies into a true hobby grade experience! I shudder to think how many folks are now out there flying Quads, thanks to the inexpensive start into the hobby, thanks to MassiveRC!

Also, we gave away a couple more Power Distribution Boards (courtesy of ReadyToFlyQuads) during this show and our lucky winners were Nick K. and MadMarl! These little boards are a MUST if you're building a multi, as they make putting together a wiring harness SO EASY!

LINKS:

Korey's eWeek Videos:

     2013 eWeek At Triple Tree (BEAUTIFUL)

     Extreme Flight 3D Control Line (???)

Tim's OPQ Battery Mount Solution

MassiveRC

ReadyToFlyQuads

EVENTS:

2013 Indian Summer Jamboree (Karl's first Fly-In in another country!)

HHAEFI (Crash and the Tims should be making this one!)