INDUCTION
RULES
Nominations may
be made by the means specified under “Contact Us”.
Nominations may be submitted at any time. Given the small,
volunteer nature of this effort it is not known how often
inductions will be made, but it need not be every year.
All decisions
as to inductees will be made by the site’s organizers
unless or until a more formal organization is established.
Nominations need not necessarily be made, and selections
will not be made, in order of importance. We seek to avoid
arguments and hurt feelings by scrupulously avoiding any
ranking or “pecking order” of inductees and by deliberately
deferring until future years a number of “obvious”
individuals who we believe to be in the very top tier by
any standard. Did you know that both the Beatles and the
Rolling Stones were not included in the first class of Rock
& Roll Hall of Fame inductees or even in the second
year?
Nominations and inductions also need not be in
chronological order. An individual whose work occurred in
the 1960’s, for example, may or may not be inducted before
a figure from the 1950’s.
INITIAL INDUCTEES
The initial
inductions will be made pursuant to a theme, rather than
randomly, chronologically or in order of importance (See
Induction Rules above). The theme of the first inductee
class is proportional pioneers and the Third Dream of Radio
Control.
The origins of proportional reach back much earlier than
this first class of inductees. Earlier proportional
involved “Kicking Duck”, “Galloping Ghost”, TTPW and other
pioneering systems each of which is deserving of honor in
its own right. However, for practical purposes, the first
class of inductees is limited to those with commercially –
offered, full house, non-interactive proportional systems.
There were (primarily) three (ACL will be covered later):
1. Space
Control
•
Zel Ritchie
•
Hershel Toomim
2.
Sampey
•
Harry Sampey
3.
Quadruplex
•
Don Brown
•
Carl Schwab
