British Association of Radio Control Soarers

was founded in 1972 to organise and represent the interests of everybody involved in radio controlled soaring.
The Association has been in existence for over 25 years and has as members enthusiasts representing all the soaring disciplines, including thermal, slope, scale and electric.

January 2008 - Thanks to the work done initially by Martin Godden and then by Hayley Hawes and Richard Swindells the new, interactive, BARCS web site is up and running.

www. BARCS.co.uk

For nearly 10 years Claranet hosted the BARCS website on the space they provided as part of my ISP package. When this filled up some of the site was hosted in the space provided by Free-online.net. Both of these commercial organisations provided excellent, low cost service.

During the last couple of years Richard Swindells has also provided server space. His is not a commercial service and he has provided this space free of charge to BARCS. Richard also runs the excellent bulletin board that now has an International reputation - so thanks from all of us to Richard.

Tony Beckett -

Becketts Assorted Radio Control Scoring

My ISP web space - www.barcs.clara.net - is no longer used by
Instead I can offer the scoring programs I have produced for flat field soaring competitions.
They are all in the form of Excel workbooks, produced with enthusiasm rather than with any formal programming skills..........

To download the files, which are stored in the .zip format, right click over the link and then choose "Save Target As...", which will enable you to choose where the file will be stored on your PC. You can then un-zip the file and load it into Excel. Contact Tony - if there are any queries, or if you have a particular interest in scoring these types of event. May 2008
F3KScore .XLS Will handle up to 20 rounds of any of the original 18 tasks plus a fly-off, if needed. In use from 2004, last updated Sep 2008. F3KScoreCards.xls Prints score cards for F3K tasks, four to an A4 sheet. Will also "mail merge" competitors names if needed. In use from 2004 TasksF3K-Lotsofinfo.xls Provides lots of information about the F3K Tasks. In use from 2004	eScoring.XLS Converted from F3KScore.xls to suit the eSoaring 200W/Kg class. In use from 2008
	F6DScore.XLS The variation on F3K designed to suit the World Air Games. In use from 2008 F6D Score Cards.xls Score cards for above. In use from 2008
XLSCORE.xls For BARCS Open and 100S (will handle F3J but poor at re-flies.) Includes facility for 2 or 3 man teams. In use from 1997, last update 2005. Used at the 1st F3J World Championship; held in the UK in 1998 NAM-LAB.xls Used with XLSCORE.xls to produce slot picking lists and time recording sheets as well as the transmitter labels that were popular when transmitters were impounded between rounds. In use from 1997. VICTOR-LUDORUM.xls At BARCS Radioglide the pilot with the best 3 results wins the trophy. This workbook does the calculation. In use from 1997.	BARCSPostal.xls Used to record scores for the BARCS postal "best 10 from 20" flights competition.
	Leagues.xls Used to combine events flown during the year into the League Totals and then find the best 4 results. In use since 2004
The Matrix Easily producing a good matrix for a soaring competition, ensuring everyone flys against everyone else the same number of times, continues to be a problem. Back in pre 35Mhz days when we just had 6 frequencies it was done from pre-prepared tables. These tables continued to be developed as more frequencies became available and it was Alan Moore from Norfolk who produced the comprehensive set of tables available here. - MOOREMAT.xls The best computer generated matrix maker I have come across is the one I used at the F3J World Championships in 1998. It comes from the German set of Scoring files DAVE-F3J. I preferred my own Excel workbooks for the scoring but was impressed with STARTORD.EXE, which I have continued to use ever since. It is a touch arcane to use but gives good results, especially with big contests. I have produced STARTORD.XLS which takes the initial matrix data and converts it to a form that I use in my scoring workbooks. It turns out that producing an Excel matrix checker is a lot easier than producing a matrix maker itself and there is MatrixCheck.xls available. I would be pleased to hear from anyone with an interest in matrix makers, particularly if they use Excel. Tony Beckett