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I've got to try this. You may see me as a "neighbor" for a while. (I will "go home" eventually.)
Take your time, plenty of room here for a kite festival.
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I agree. There is something very odd going on. It looks like if you try to place a marker close to the road, it "jumps" to the road. I guess I would just try to get in the road as close to your house as possible. (Going "home" now.)
It's fun trying to really pinpoint it with the numbers, and I was editing it at first. I'll have to pull out the gps and try it from outside.
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It's a pity that you don't get to edit your location, but must enter it completely every time you change. I think I will put a little text-file on my desktop, and edit that. That way I can cut-n-paste to the location box (and not forget exactly what I tried the previous time). And, yes, I think the 4th decimal is unused. Still, the 3rd decimal equals about 6 feet, so you should be able to get pretty close.
I still see you in the middle of the woods.
Just had a thought: if it doesn't like the 4th decimal, perhaps it is leaving your old setting. Try N42 28.617 W079 6.181 and see where it puts you. Then adjust by adjusting the 3rd decimal by 1 for every six feet you want to move. (That's for N-S; E-W will be slightly less. The actual amount is 6 feet * Cosine (Lon), but 4 or 5 feet is close enough.)
I've tried it over and over N42 28.616 W079 6.176, N42 28.615 W079 6.176, N42 28.616 W079 6.175 and I'm either in the wood or across the road. Now I'm afraid to leave the house, I'll never get back!
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Go to google earth, set your measurements (in the Options or Preferences) to decimal minutes, hover over your house and read the lat/lon at the bottom of the page. Then enter those as your location on the member map using the form:
(thanks to Reef Runner)
hddd mm.mmm
h = hemisphere
dd = degrees
mm.mmm = minutes carried out to 3 decimal places
So, you will be somewhere near N42 28.4xx W079 6.0xx (I don't know exactly where you are, but this is how the numbers are supposed to look.)
Pete
You're pretty darn close!! The last numbers I put in was N42 28.6175 W079 6.1809 but I can't get across the road to my place, but I assume the 4th decimal place doesn't count for anything. I'll cross the road by the end of the day I hope.
Mike
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If you type in your address, it should put your marker right on that spot!!
If you use a town or county, it's going to be more general in location!! Up to you how exact you want to be!!Yes I used my street address, but with a bunch of acreage the street address must be centering it within the 56 acres.
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I just got on the map, but it put me in the middle of the woods on the satellite. Maybe it is the center of my whole address, but it would take me 20 minutes to walk to my marker from the house.
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It's an older sonic, I haven't flown it yet and maybe the bungees have been replaced, actually I originally started looking into this kite on the forum today when I checked the kite out and noticed the 4 sewn black strips on the front of the kite and wondered why on the front and not on the back where the verticals would contact the sail was odd to me but found the subject about the spars being bungeed around, so before I tie the bungees as a loop I'll probably drop a spar once or twice, bring me back to the original question I haven't searched for is, Why are the black strips of material sewn on the front of the sail and not on the back where it seems it would be protective of wear on the sail like a cushion?
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don't have an actual picture, but here is one I quickly drew up.
Hope this helps.
Thanks Kent. I see my kite has 2 knots, so i would have to tie the bungee together instead of being held with the washers, I take it the washers can be discarded at that point.
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Could someone post a picture of the vertical through the bungee then into the cap, I think I have it with one wrap of the bungee but I'm not clear unless I see a picture
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It's been over a month since my last count better put me down for 9 more revs. The total now is 32 and growing.
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May I presume that this is pink with purple tips?
John I went with your first post, center then tips, purple and pink tips.
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i have a purple/pink
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The best advice I can give you is to call Kent at A Wind of Change. He is not only extremely knowledgeable about stacking Revs, but readily shares that knowledge ... and is a pleasure to converse with.
Cheers,
Tom
I can try to call their 800 number again but that is a hard number to make contact on, maybe I'll try the other number on the site.
Mike
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Lay the widths and separations of the kites out on the floor with masking tape and measure. I think you may be right, but the difference is probably small for 4.5' stack lines. It would tend to let the center of farthest kite(s) bow a bit away from you. If you planned to stack a lot of kites, each progressively larger, the effect would be cumulative. By laying it out, you can adjust the lengths to fit the actual distances.
One thing to note about progressive stacks: the angle of pull that you have noted on the outer stack lines means the the farther/larger kites will be trying to rip the closer/smaller kites in half -- more likely just pull the end-caps off or pull the spar joints apart. If they can resist being pulled in half, the closer/smaller kites will be trying to crush/collapse the farther/larger kites. This effect will be magnified by shorter stack lines, and lessened by longer stack lines. Draw the rig out on paper, to scale, and look at which way the stack lines are pulling. Just drawing the leading edge spar and the outer stack lines should show you what is happening.
So much for the idea of a progressive stack with custom b2, jb pro and a zen kites. It's just not worth trying the "what will happen if I" approach on those kites. Time to read deeper into progressive stacks. I can picture the bending, pulling apart, crushing and collapseing. However with my luck, there would 14 rods showering down to earth and a ball of material at the end of 4 lines
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I think I must be missing something about Progressive Stack Lines
My thoughts are that because the connection points are the same length only at the center of a progressive stack, rev 2 connected to a rev 1.5 connected to a rev 1. Then wouldn't the 6 other stack lines need to be slightly longer to adjust for the slight diagonal connection points? Unless the center point isn't used to connect a progressive stack. -
I hope the wind picked up and stays on track for you.
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Here we go!!
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No wifi today Jeff?
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Going back out, I'll wave when I walk through...
I thought the music was in the room, but i saw people dancing on the beach.
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I wish it was cloudy! Can't do much about the sun, but tomorrow we'll bne up earlier. I'll zoom it around a little before I go back downstairs...
Now don't go wishing for clouds, you'll have plenty of those at home.
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Harsh back light right now. I'm standing with Jynx and Alden by the flags in the foreground. Alden and I are in red jackets.
Yes it's hard to avoid the sun when you're in the sunshine state, the sun is in full shot now.
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Doing a test broadcast right now. Check the link and see if you see anything. It's just a horrible picture out my window, but I have no view. If everything's working, I'll move it tomorrow to Denny's room with looks at the beach.
Rockin' Robin
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Camera's up in Denny's room...
It's coming through!!
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Jeff, just finished watching last years Sunday 5 sunset, this Sunday Round Lake's temps might make it up to 20 as a high and about 10 for the low, Enjoy the monent!
A moral dilemma
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And my friends wonder why I maintain 20 acres of lawn. I fly at our local beaches once the beach clears out, until then there is always happy hour. The place I fly at is called Sunset Bay with mostly rental properties by the week, where people leave their chairs and seadoos and toys by the water all day. As there is very little beach areas from Buffalo to the Pennsylvania stateline I can understand why people don't bring 80 foot triangular beach blankets for one person to sit on. However, If someone did have an 80 foot beach blanket on the beach or several people had 80 foot blankets on the beach, how would other beach goers feel about stepping on, walking across or getting sand on those 80 foot blankets?