UPDATE:  This one is complete ! Please visit the RC India 2K Sweepstakes !



We are very happy to annouce the RC India 1K Sweepstakes !

We are going to hold a sweepstakes/lottery where one lucky winner will get an Esky Lama V4 ready-to-fly helicopter shipped to him.  The winner will be chosen from among the people who post the first 1000 posts on this forum (hence the name 1K sweepstakes!).

I am working on lining up sponsorship for the same, and have made some headway.  If any hobby reseller is interested in sponsoring, please let me know via PM/email.  As a payback, sponsors will have a higher percent of free ads display on this forum. We plan on having 2K, 3K etc sweepstakes after this 

If you have any used items in good condition that you would like to donate towards this series of sweepstakes, please let us know.

I do sincerely hope that some newcomer to the hobby wins this. 

Please spread the word !

Note that we will pick the winner as a number between 1 and 1K, and the person who made that post will be the winner. So the more you are active on the forum, the better your chances for winning ! 


Thanks again to RC-For-All for being the primary sponsor.


Rules :

1) RC India's decision will be final on all matters related to this sweepstakes.

2) The winner will be chosen from among posts 1 though 1000. A number between 1 and 1000 will be randomly picked, and whoever made that post will be chosen the winner (subject to rest of the rules mentioned here). The draw will be done as soon as we hit 1000 posts in total.

3) India RC administrator(s) and all hobby shops are excluded from the draw.  If their post comes up as the winner, the draw will be repeated until a suitable winner is found.

4) The winner details will be published here, and the item will be shipped via courier to the address provided by the winner.

The proposed product is similar to this : http://www.rc711.com/shop/product_info.php?cPath=121_21&products_id=126

I guess mode 1 is the norm in India.

Hi Anwar,

Nice way to make people interact more.  Keep up the good work.

Regards,
Adarsh
www.adarsh007.com

I wanted to thank Sai @ RC-For-All for coming forward as the primary sponsor of this effort 

Yes, it is an incentive for people to interact more.  It is also a sincere effort, with the whole-hearted support of the various RC stores who sponsor such events, to make this hobby available to more people.

I expect more people to join the forum, as soon as it ranks better in Google search results. It will take a little while. Until then, word-of-mouth publicity is what will let others know about this new avenue.

Dear Anwar,

   It's very good idea to develop the RC passion in india. Let me in.

Awaiting for winner announcements.
MEROG

no Mode 2 used by many people.
But it is a matter of convenience.

I think there are more mode 2 flyers than mode 1, especially among electric fliers.

There are probably more mode 1 fliers in south India. What about a poll ?

We will just ask the winner, what mode he flies   

It may cause some delay in getting the heli to him though.

A poll has been started !

When would this take place ? i mean do you have a date when you would select a winner ?

The winner will be chosen when we hit 1000 posts.  We are at around 300 now.  At this rate, we may hit that in about a month !

I do feel bad that I inflated the post count with my own posts (even though I am not participating).  But it is more fun to give it away sooner than later.  We will have another sweepstakes after this, and this time it will be an ARF airplane 

How about having competitions like:

1. Best scratch built model

2. Fun fly - regional

We can come up with more ideas for sweepstakes that actually include building, flying.

While these are great ideas, there are practical problems.  The primary issue is that it restricts participation to a limited audience, like people who are interested in a particular activity (like building scratch models) or to a regional group.

We want to do raffles that everyone can participate (except the forum admins and hobby shops), with minimal effort.  All one needs to do is to be a part of this forum's community, and help one another through forum interaction (which will be carried over to real-life in their local flying fields).

Your suggestions are great for "local" implementation.  In a place like Bangalore where there are 25+ active fliers, a scratch build competition would work great.  Here in Qatar, we have those about once a year, as reported in the thread below :

http://rcqatar.com/rc-in-qatar/rc-airplane-model-building-competition-by-the-qatar-scientific-club/

Anwar ,
The Solar powered Car looks very interesting  any further details .

I didn't get a chance to meet up with him yet.  You can contact him via PM on the other forum.

A solar plane that requires no batteries at all would get really boring after flying it forever (or until the TX power runs out! ) 

Correct, It will be great if local flyers and hobby shops could come together to have these competitions - that will help promote the hobby more and make flyers and modelers truly enjoy the hobby and compete healthily.

hey i am a mode one flyer onli...... 

No issues man, 
It is a rule of thumb that The "RC Glider flyer tend to be MOde-1" But there is no such thing.
I have seen Glider flyer's with Mode-2.

It is a personal test.

I have joined this form today. I have been a modeller for many many years off and on.

It is the first time I have seen  a representation forum for this hobby and am overjoyed.

I wish the best of everything to the sponsors of this lucky draw

Warm regards to everyone


J Mohan

i must say its a nice initiative 
very well thought of..keep up the  good work..

Anwar,

The participant should post in this thread, means, just to be active by replying, right? But I could not find 300 here, it shows only 19. Does that means, the participant should start a new thread or post a reply in this thread?

Awaiting your reply...//MEROG

I meant the total number of posts in the whole forum, which you can see at the bottom of the main page when you are logged in (along with details like who was online in the past 24 hours etc).

You can be part of any thread/discussion in this forum (or start your own thread) to take part in the sweepstakes. 

Now we are close to 700 posts total, so only 300 to go before the lucky winner is chosen.

could u illustrate graphically on a daily basis the top ten leaders. it would be fun to see the rush then.

great initiative it would be great if i win lama, as i am keen in getting into the hobby. i get fascinated when ever i see a helicopter, thinking how will a huge piece of a metal can fly defying gravity, tat too vertically up. so started to learn the fundamentals of helicopter and rc helicopters from various sites in net. tats how i came to know this forum and even the lucky lama

i am also a begineer to RC helis, but i have heard from several people and read reviews stating that the E-SKy Lama IV is a perfect heli for a begineer. Great initiative of rcindia to introduce begineers to RC hobby by sponsering the perfect begineer heli Cheers to rcindia

less than 100 posts to go - Chan

Only 78 posts to go and I am eagerly  waiting for the chopper.

Only 70 to go.

Every Forum need to have its very own Clown

Right??

hi people i would love to get my hands upon a LAMA V 4 RTF HELI as i could practice a lot more on my own heli for the v22 project other than lending it from someone.

Oh come on!!! give this one hell of a heli to meee please

      

i could do better than amir bhaiya so please give it to meeeeeeeeeeeeee

   

hi Pikle6

i have seen your website.
very nice effort.
i am very impressed by your work.
keep going.
all the best.

Note that I have edited some of the posts with too many smilies, as people complained about them 

I just reduced the number of smilies to a reasonable level 

sorry Anwar bhaiya next time i will make sure that i don't insert more than 10 of them. sorry again 
by the way this post is in the race for victory too 

hi anwar bhaiya can i publicize about rcindia in my website i have many returning visitors it might help publicize rcindia and in turn they might do it in their websites as well. i will tell my friends about this and ask them to join rcindia also and if i can put it in my website can you please send me a nice photo of the website with the motto and the sweeptakes things and all other things 

PM me or e-mail at

pikle6@yahoo.co.in

Thanks for the offer.

You can take a screen shot of any page you like from RC India, using Alt + PrntScrn keys, and paste into into some image processing program. The simplest would be MS Paint (mspaint.exe), which ships with all versions of Windows.  You can then save the screenshot as a JPG image.

BTW, since this sweepstakes (1K) is coming to an end, we are going to announce the next one, which is a full Futaba 6EXA PCM mode 2 radio set (with 5 servos, receiver, rx battery and charger) 

Is Tx battery included?
BTW what and how could people complain about too many smilies.Their effect is very soothing and to me at least like watching a well setup aquarium. They make the watcher smile.

Of course the TX battery is included 

Who would list a TX without its battery    If it is missing, it would be explicitly noted 

here we go, this is the 1000th post yeah............i did it 

thanks to anwar for coming up with this great site and the wonderful idea of sweepstakes and the upcoming radio thing

thanks once again to anwar

best

sahil

wait i forgot so does this i'm getting the heli  oops some one already posted (aeronut94) this is 1002th post

Sahil,

I can really see the speed with which this message was typed out    .. but alas, this is a sweepstakes and that means that there would be a luck draw kind of thing now.. The winner would be the one who had made that particular number post... If the number drawn is 526, then the winner would be the person who had made the 526th post...  So lets wait for the draw..

Anwar,

When is the golden event???

- Chan

Hi Anwar ,
2 months 1 K post 

Really shows we needed a real open forum where all could breath and not suffocate

sai

And the winner of the RC India 1K sweepstakes is....



Congratulations !  Please contact us via PM or the email address on the footer with your postal address.

PS: 1) I am glad that it did go to someone who is starting in the hobby    Hope he really takes this as a great start to this hobby.

2) Sincerely appreciate Sai at RC-For-All for being a significant sponsor for this ! 

3) And big thanks to http://www.random.org for helping me pick the winner.   

congrats ksn770 i hope i win the next one

congrats
Happy flying...

Booo ooh

ksn770 

tears of happiness 

The Lama will be sent to the winner today.
Will update courier details later if OK by Anwar

Sai

No need to post courier details in public, I feel.

Of course we all would love to see some pics of the heli posted by the winner !

I thought so myself  but just in case did not want  doubts later hence wanted it clarified.
sai

the winner is a lucky person.

Hi all,

i have received the Lama V4 today... and greatly excited about it... yipeeeee ... and i agree with everyone who thinks i have been lucky 

I will be uploading pics of the heli soon. I know the video of the maiden flight would have been better... unfortunately... tht will take a little longer 'coz i think i shud start off with the simulator first....

I would like to thank sai for sponsoring this... and thanks to rcindia too... its been a great opportunity for me... i am definitely going to make sure i use it well...

regards
Sajna

Hi All,

I am attaching the photos of the LamaV4 that I won. This being my first RC Heli, i have taken photos of the complete box even before unpacking... after unpacking... heli alone... etc..etc..  

hope to be posting the videos of the flight soon..

regards
Sajna

Where is user KSN770, just 4 posts and no more, seems he join rcindia just to win the competition and collect the prize, I guess ghost user

There are many people who are not active on the forum due to various reasons, after being active for a while. For many, this forum (and others) are just short lived activities.  For many, RC itself is short lived !

+1

hmmmm...