History of
Metro Area R/C Flying
It’s been approximately 7 years now since I started Keith’s R/C
Flying which was going to be converted into the Omahawk’s web
site. I was then uploading to the web with a free dial-up
connection and putting my web space on a free server.
I purchased the domain name of
Omahawks.org and began to prepare to make my web space the
official Omahawk’s web site. I was working with Ollie Olson and
was just ready to present our web site proposal to the Omahawk’s
when Brad Shaink, one of the newly elected club officers offered
to do the Omahawk’s web site. Brad was a professional web
master and much more knowledgeable than myself so he put
together the web site instead. Brad did a great job with the
Omahawk’s site, adding features that I would not have known how
to do.
I had been talking about creating a central web site to tie all
the Omaha area clubs together within an area of 50 miles. The
purpose of the site was to promote R/C flying in general and
help clubs build membership, participation in fun flys and other
club events and provide a central event schedule so that you
could see all the local events in one place. It would also have
information about all the clubs with news letters, s to all
events and flying fields etc. It would not be to replace club
web sites, but to help connect flyers from all clubs to the
Omaha R/C flying community.
So, as you all know I created Metro Area R/C Flying and it has
been up for about 6 years now.
I got a high-speed internet
connection with Cox when they became available. Cox allowed you
put up web sites in 10 MB pieces. Approximately 1 ½ years ago I
was using about 200 MB’s of web space on Cox that was spread
over 20 different separate spaces.
I needed more space so I came up
with a plan to pay for it. I became a Google and Amazon
affiliate and put Google and Amazon ads on my web sites. This
has paid me enough to pay for the new web space and purchase
some of the software that I need to have to keep all the web
sites going. It doesn’t pay a lot but it is covering the
expenses.
I was using about 200
MB’s of web space and now I have100,000 MB’s of web space, all
in one place. Therefore I have room for more pictures, videos
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New Stuff On
Metro
In the
last year, I have added new sections for
3-D Planes,
Indoor Flying,
Outdoor Electric Planes,
Videos & Slide Shows and the
to help pay for the web space.
I have recently added a
Schedule Archives
2007 &
2008 so you can look up past events. If there
is not yet a new “Event Flyer” for a club event, you can look up
the old flyer for last year and get an idea of what this year’s
event will be like.
I’ve also
added an
Out of Area Schedule for about a 500 mile radius of Omaha.
If it’s an event over 500 miles and I think someone will attend,
I will list it. There is also an
Out of Area Schedule Archives 2007
&
2008.
I would like
to get all the events listed for the different specialty groups
like Old Timers, Float Flys, Pattern contests, Gliders, 3-D,
SPADs, Scale, Jets and Giant Scale. This is only a partial
list; I’m sure there’s many more. Send me Event Flyers and web
sites to events you are interested in and I will list them.
Imbedded
iframes
Links,
For Sale,
s &
Schedule
I have changed the four Pages listed above so the same page is
shown on several different web sites. This allows the
Bellevue R/C Aero Modelers
Midwest Performance Flyers
and
Metro Area R/C Flying to display the same page on their web
sites. By doing this, I only have to update one page and it
automatically updates the other web sites.
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Club Web Sites
that I Publish
There
was a problem connecting clubs on a central web site if they had
no web site of their own. To correct this, I started four web
sites for
Bellevue R/C Aero Modelers,
and
Midwest Performance Flyers.
Some of the
clubs were low on members. One club has been able to rebuild
their membership to comfortable levels again due partly to the
web site.
The
Fremont Frontier Flyers are still very low on members, which
makes it difficult for them to keep and maintain their flying
site. I have often tried to think of a way that the Omaha clubs
could help them. If anyone has an idea please
e-mail me. If you do not have my e-mail address, you can
just click on any e-mail link, on any of my web sites, and the
e-mail will come directly to me.
The South 40
Field is about an hour east of Council Bluffs, located on a
farm. Rather than starting a web site for them, I put a contact
sheet up with instructions how to get there.
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Services
If you have an event that you
would like to advertise, e-mail the details to me and I will
send out an e-mail mailing to all the area club members.
I don’t mail
on any schedule, usually just when someone requests it. So
remember you must contact me if you would like me to send out a
notice.
I do all the
mailing manually. If you request to be dropped from the mailing
list, I will immediately take your name off the list. Many of
the mailings that you get now don’t take your name off when you
request it. I believe that an honest, reputable web site should
respect your right to privacy. |
Services
You
can send pictures of your planes and I will put them up. It’s
nice to be able to show everyone your latest planes and
equipment, so send them in and show off a little! Be sure to
include descriptions and stories about your stuff. It makes it
more interesting to everyone.
Thank You's
I want to thank everyone who regularly sends in material,
especially “Big” Ed Paasch and his wife, who’s a great
photographer, Nelson Carpenter, Dean Dingman, Dick Behrens and
many, many others who have contributed.
Editor
Keith Paskewitz |