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PLEASE NOTE the new date for the
Southwestern Aeromodeling Conference. It
is October 3-4, 2003.
If you, your company, your specialinterest
group, or AMA chartered club are
interested in establishing a commercial
tradeshow display at the October 2003
event, please contact me at the above
address. I will provide you with all
applications and registration information.
These spaces are going fast and will sell out
soon so act now if you want to be an
exhibitor at this event!
I often close this column with the following:
Dr. Sandy Frank, representing the
membership of AMA District VIII (TX,
NM, OK, AR, and LA) to the AMA
Executive Council (Board of Directors).
I continually strive to represent the
majority of the membership wishes within
this region when representing you to the
AMA Executive Council. I am a licensed
psychologist but I am not a mind reader!
So that you might have input to the
activities, programs, and directions that your
AMA undertakes, I solicit your input. My
telephone is answered 24/7. I check my Email
regularly. I acknowledge and
responded to all membership input!
Please take the opportunity to contact me
as needed for any organizational concerns or
questions concerning your AMA. I may not
know the answers to all questions but I can
investigate your problems and concerns and
seek answers for you!
Gil Merriman, from Los Alamos, New
Mexico, sent this photograph. Back row (L
to R): Jimmy Jacobs, Dennis Hansel, Burt
Goldsmith, Frank Bowman, Ed Shunk;
front row (L to R): Gil Merriman, Russ
Gritzo, and Lynn Morris.
Eight Control Line (CL) fliers gathered in
Farmington, New Mexico, last October to
inaugurate the new CL facility that the city
had recently constructed. The construction
of the field followed years of effort by Frank
Bowman who dreamed it and worked sideby-
side with the city to make it happen.
Another circle is under construction and
should be finished by the summer of 2003.
I purchased a specifically designed radio
frequency scanner for use with the radio
control 72-megacycle spectrum. I am testing
this DW Products device as I travel
throughout the region attending modeling
activities. So far, it has performed well. If
you have a need of such a device, I suggest
that you contact the manufacturer
concerning its availability and usefulness to
either you or your AMA-chartered club.
For further information concerning this
device, please see www.desertwolfe.
com/rcscan7200.htm. Neither the
AMA nor I have any financial connection
with this company.
AMA is the glue that bonds modelers
together!
March 22-23, 2003 in Paris, Texas, the
Paris Radio Control Association, club
#1671, and Kelvin McFadden, the contest
director (CD), E-mail
[email protected], hosted an Open
B and 2610 Scale Combat event governed
by Radio Control Combat Association
(RCCA) rules.
Above is the CD, Kelvin McFadden being
inducted into the AMA District VIII Dirty
Dozen Society. To the left is the president
of the RCCA, Lou Melancon. I am on the
right. D. Powell photo.
Arkansas / Louisiana / New
Mexico / Oklahoma / Texas
Dr. Sandy Frank
Vice President
105 N. Brazos St.,
Weatherford TX 76086-3207
Tel./Fax: (817) 599-7131
E-mail: [email protected]
www.AMA-Dist-8.org
Associate Vice Presidents
Buzz Averill, 11608 Singing Arrow Rd SE,
Albuquerque NM 87123 Home: (505) 323-8571;
Work: (505) 298-6870
Lester L. Barry, 4808 N. Rockwell Ave., Bethany
OK 73008-5373 (405) 789-5373
Max Blose, 1001 N. Betsy, Waco TX 76706
(254) 662-5587
Ervin “Chick” Frierson, Box 188, Haskell TX
79521 (817) 864-3086
Bill Lee, 601 Van Zandt County Road 4815,
Chandler TX 75758 (903) 852-5599
Jim D. Marshall, Box 9092, Mission TX 78572
(956) 585-6446
Randy Randolph, 4873 Fallon Pl., Dallas TX 75227
(214) 381-7624
Jim Rice, 118 E. Wright Blvd., Universal City TX
78148 (210) 945-8221
Ron Stanfield, 26 Oak Ridge Dr., Maumelle AR
72113-6846 (501) 851-1697
Charles Stevens, 226 Delta St., Pasadena TX
77506 (713) 473-4995
Ward Watts, 13415 Joor Rd., Baton Rouge LA
70818 (225) 261-5974
Frequency Coordinator
(North): Joe DuMond, 6731 Bridge Street, PMB-
224, Ft. Worth TX 76112 (817) 457-6685
(South): Gene Kent, 2811 Cork Cove, San Antonio
TX 78230 (210) 308-8043
AMA Display Coordinator
Karen Hopkins, 5515 Bridgeton Avenue, Arlington
TX 76018 (817) 467-9211
District VIII Report
Edition: Model Aviation - 2003/07
Page Numbers: 154