Articles and items of interest to OVRC members are ALWAYS welcome and actively solicited. One of the great things about the hobby is the sharing of information among members. Also, writing articles gives you the opportunity to make a permanent contribution to the hobby.

Contact: The information for contacting the editor and submitting material is on the contacts web page.

Subject: Anything of interest to OVRC members which is neither illegal or libelous.

Text: Information for your article can in any form you like - verbal, letter, emit diskette, photo copy written out on a brown paper bag, even rumours are considered! If you provide the basic facts, the editor will be pleased to work with you in preparing your article. For submissions received on diskette or via email, files in just about any format are fine. They will be imported into a word processor (usually Wordperfect or Word), checked for spelling and typos, converted to plain old ASCII text (.txt) file to remove any wordprocessor formatting and styles and then imported into PageMaker for the final layout.

Photos: You can scan them yourself or send the original photo, which will be returned promptly scanned image files can be sent by email or diskette. For scanned files, please use 300 dots per inch (DPI) greyscale if possible - while 75 DPI JPEG format colour images are fine for viewing on a computer monitor, 300 DPI TIF (or TIFF) greyscale image files are preferred for printing screened images. Colour images should be converted to greyscale (black & white) to minimize file size - colour is not used in the Newsletter.

A300 DPI greyscale TIFF image file requires about l00k bytes per square inch of image. A4'' x 6". image would then be 24 square inches or 2.4 megabytes. This is too large for a floppy disk, but it can be sent by email in about 10 minutes, even with a 56k baud modem.

Author: Be sure to send a small 300 DPI 'TIF image of yourself and a short biography for the ''Meet the Author'' section. Our members are very interested in meeting you and finding out how you got involved in all of this!

Edit Policy: lf the editor thinks that a significant change should be made to your article (i.e. other than typos, spelling, etc.) he will get your agreement on changes before proceeding.

The hardest thing about writing for a Newsletter is to get started on your first article. After that, people really are amazed at how easy it really was and the interest and discussion which it generates.