ORIGINAL: combatpigg
It remains to be seen IF the DX6 IS for 1/2A or just electric park flyers like the manufacturer claims. They don't even state WHAT the range is........[&:] I picked one up last week and will try it out in a racer.
We're the WRONG guys here to debate whether or not 1/2A glow is interesting enough to get column inches in a monthly magazine. The guys who make their livings selling ad space and producing a product that sells [instead of getting returned from the news stands] are the ones to take up the argument with. Look what happened to RCM, they became uninteresting to enough readers who switched to RC FLYER that they had to close the doors. Do a little bit of market research and look at the 1/2A engine suppliers who have now moved on to doing stuff that pays the bills. The next area to suffer will be the availability of all the other stuff, like tanks, engine mounts and props. Places like RCU is where the interest will be kept alive.
RCM put me to sleep long before it went belly up. Technical articles full of total crap (I guess I'll refrain from mentioning authors who especially stand out in that regard), four thousand pages of print ads, and nothing of substance for months at a time may have had something to do with it. I hardly bother with MAN now for similar reasons - I am sick to death of month after month of "Raving Positive ARF Reviews Monthly" and "Endless Repetition of Old Stale Tech Tips". I think one of my favorties was the tech tip that suggested gluing old toilet paper tubes to a piece of wood to hold things. For that someone got a subscription - scraping the barrel were we? But those British mags still seem to have some substance to them at least.
It's true about RCU - here you can have a problem in your mind, post it, and a bunch of people who have direct experience with it jump in. Or if you want to rave about your latest 1/2A project, people actually listen or at least pretend they care, which is just as good.
MJD