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Old 12-21-2007, 08:25 PM   #25
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Default Re: Independent tests prove lack of frequency hopping with XPS

Quote: Originally Posted by jonkoppisch
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I wish that I had known about the 'exaggerations' before I purchased the xps system. One of the main reasons that I bought it was that it was promoted that it would jump to another channel if it encountered any interference. It sounds as if there are only 11? channels that it can switch to if the circumstances are just right. It worked for me.. Then it didn't...
And that's *exactly* what I'd expect to see with this limitation in XPS.

So long as the frequency chosen by XPS is clean and remains that way, XPS will work just fine and dandy. It's only when something else decides to use a fair bit of that chunk of spectrum that you'll have problems -- and XPS will have no fallback capabilities, leaving you looking for a shovel.

Some folks will never have a problem - ever, others will never have a problem until "one day" when a new 2.4GHz gadget down the road decides to broadcast all over the top of you, or you decide to fly at another field where Futaba and Spektrum systems are working without problems but your XPS may not, due to the presence of powerful 2.4GHz transmissions that come and go on an XPS channel.

No worse than 72MHz -- but not as good as other options.
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