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Quote: Originally Posted by KrisW |
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I'm guessing this is one of the reasons 2.4 was picked by Spektrum, and why everyone else felt compelled to follow along in copycat fashion. Also the original equipment was meant only for foamies, and they wanted to get radios on the market that would not interfere with the 72 mhz stuff, so that the modelers could fly anywhere, any time, they wanted to. Great for Foamies, that fly in close. . not so great for $8,000 IMAC birds that are 2000 feet out in the middle of a roller. There were even discussions about how it's a really BAD idea to try to use a DX6000 for a gasser, due to limited range and other considerations. Back then I did it, with an 84" plane, just to prove it could be done, and I had no problems for the 10 test flights I tried it, but things have changed since then, and I have not done it since. |
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That makes a lot of sense to me!!
If the original intention was indeed just for foamies and park-flyers, it makes absolute sense to use the 2.4 spectrum. People tend to fly these models without much care to frequency control, heck, when I'm flying my foamie in the backyard I don't go running through all the houses in a mile radius asking which frequency they've got.... If someone, half a mile away also decides to fly their foamie in their backyard and happens to be on the same freq as me (72), we'll both have trouble.... With 2.4, this would be a non-issue.
The 2.4 "quirks" seem to be much less "drastic" on park-flyers and foamie, which generally are flown much closer in, lower and slower, allowing for greater signal strength and less "noise seeing". Also, if you have a lockout on a foamie, you've only got about $50 (or less) of airframe at jeopardy (I've never seen a foamie crash which resulted in a total loss of all equipment, including motors and radio....)....
Now, as it seems most of the world follows the "nothing's created, everything's copied" saying, instead of doing research for a new band more suitable for the larger, more expensive, higher flying and further reaching models, they've apparently just "blown up" the 2.4 concept from the foamies to the largers models.... And the problems are showing up....
