Welcome to the RC scene.

First what field of RC are you interested in - aircraft, boats, automobile? This is mainly an aircraft site, but I'm sure you can log onto other sites to those other fields.

Once you've desided your area of interest I recommend finding a club where you can go, see what they are doing, ask questions, get advice and get some lessons. There are many web sites - I'm not an expert on web searching but that is one place to go.

If you're interested in aircraft, the AMA journal "Model Aviation" has a very nice monthly series of articles out this year that is really basic and covers the rudiments of RC aircraft. Its called "From the gound up" and I highly recommend it for the beginner. Their website is modelaircraft.org .

Also your local library may have some books and information.

Tower hobbies and omni models - you can get to their websites - carry books on RC modeling.

Hope this helps

Roodester