Chris, if you flamed anybody, it was probably only people who deserved it. For myself, I might have appreciated a good ARF or two when I was trying to raise a son, working 50+ hours a week, taking night courses at a local college, and trying to find time to squeeze in an hour or two a week building among other things like eating, sleeping, and the attempts my wife forced on me to have a normal social life. The quality of today's ARFs was only reached in about the last 10 years, if that. Those of us who bought ARFs in the late forties, fifties, and sixties have a tendency to spell ARF with a capital B as the first letter. Some of us still do, not from predjudice against something untried, but as an application of the saying "Once burnt, twice shy". Just like there are still quite a few of us who have trouble accepting electric power, not because the concept is foriegn to us, but again, as what you might call pioneering, been there, done that, it didn't work, wasted a lot of time and money. Everybody has his own personal priorities and life experiences, some of which match other peoples' and some which don't.

Based on what you submitted, I hope to see more like you enter this hobby/sport.