Sun N Fun 2011 will return to Hermann Park in Houston, Texas on September 17 - 18. Get all the event info including directions, lodging, and event schedule here: http://www.warfish.com/subron5/snf2011.html.
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Showing posts with label Sun N Fun. Show all posts
Monday, May 30, 2011
Friday, October 08, 2010
Sun N Fun 2010
Sun N Fun 2010 was a great time. The weather was absolutely perfect. SubRon vets Jeff Porteous, Tom Kisler and Don Baker had successful runs with their boats. Lee Giles returned with his magnificent British S-class boat.
Several new local members show up this weekend including Jackson Chu, Chad Divine, Fitz Walker, and long time SC member Andy Hunt who is now living near Houston. Looks like time to start a Houston based sub-group of SR5.
Here's a video of Jeff Porteous' Blueback on patrol.
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Several new local members show up this weekend including Jackson Chu, Chad Divine, Fitz Walker, and long time SC member Andy Hunt who is now living near Houston. Looks like time to start a Houston based sub-group of SR5.
Here's a video of Jeff Porteous' Blueback on patrol.
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Scorching Sun N Fun
Well, another SubRon5 event is in the can and it was a doozy! We had the most boats and the best venue we've ever had. The people at the Hermann Park Conservancy were extremely helpful and the water was great. The sun...well, that was a different story. It was really hot. But that is Houston in August.
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Sun N Fun 2009
It's that time again for our sub modeling group, SubRon5 to get together for a weekend of submerged operations and fellowship. This time it is in Houston this August 22-23. You can see all the details here: http://www.warfish.com/subron5/snf2009.html. If you are in the neighborhood please come see us!
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Thursday, July 10, 2008
Sun N Fun 2008
Spent the July 4th weekend in Muskogee, Oklahoma joining my r/c sub modeling comrades of SubRon5 in our annual get together. It was held at Batfish Park, home of the WWII museum boat USS Batfish (SS-310). Member Don Baker set up the site with a pond to run in next to the boat and it was a great time.
Due to lack of luggage space I chose to take only my 1/96 USS Thresher. In order to get it running I basically restored the 12 year old WTC which I had disassembled last summer due to leaking.
While the WTC went back together well, the electronics gave me fits. A Viper 10 amp mini speed control was new to the mix and every time I tried to fire the system up it showed a signal error. I would take it apart, check the connections, spread everything across the bench, and it would finally work. Then, once reinstalled in the WTC, the same error would occur: no transmitter signal received by the receiver. I finally gave up and threw it all in the car for the trip.
When it came time to run on Friday I buttoned things up and flipped on the system -- and it worked like a champ! I got three extended runs over two days without a glitch. It felt great to have a working boat in the water. All I can deduce is there must be some sort of significant interference at my home which is confounding my radio on the bench.
The new speed control worked well but really advances the speed with minimal clicks of the throttle control. Once underway, I resorted to controlling the boat with trim tabs. Below are a few images of Thresher underway at the event:
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Due to lack of luggage space I chose to take only my 1/96 USS Thresher. In order to get it running I basically restored the 12 year old WTC which I had disassembled last summer due to leaking.
While the WTC went back together well, the electronics gave me fits. A Viper 10 amp mini speed control was new to the mix and every time I tried to fire the system up it showed a signal error. I would take it apart, check the connections, spread everything across the bench, and it would finally work. Then, once reinstalled in the WTC, the same error would occur: no transmitter signal received by the receiver. I finally gave up and threw it all in the car for the trip.
When it came time to run on Friday I buttoned things up and flipped on the system -- and it worked like a champ! I got three extended runs over two days without a glitch. It felt great to have a working boat in the water. All I can deduce is there must be some sort of significant interference at my home which is confounding my radio on the bench.
The new speed control worked well but really advances the speed with minimal clicks of the throttle control. Once underway, I resorted to controlling the boat with trim tabs. Below are a few images of Thresher underway at the event:
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