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Quote: Originally Posted by XJet |
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I can't believe that the AMA hasn't approached the FCC for a small slice of dedicated spectrum that can be allocated solely for model RC use.
Sure, this might cost money - but amortize it across all the model-fliers and you'd find that it was a pretty small price to pay for security against having your 40% gaser shot down by some kid with a park-flier or some quite legal burst of sustained noise on 2.4GHz.
Given that only a handful of models can fly at the same field at the same time, only a very small chunk of spectrum would be needed for a narrow-band system (like we've been using for decades) and the shoot-down problem could easily be handled by smart transmitters that automatically negotiate an available frequency at power-up (even the Polk Seeker synth transmitter listens before it will transmit and refuses to emit RF if the chosen channel is in-use).
How about the AMA approaches the FCC to see what bureaucracy and costs are involved in grabbing a single MHz or even 500KHz of bandwidth somewhere?
Remember that all this fancy SS technology on 2.4GHz is really only there to try and solve the frequency clash and interference issues that would effectively disappear with such a auto-negotiationg system on a dedicated chunk of spectrum.
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I wonder if maybe somewhere along the line they did, seems reasonable, and got laghed out of the office !! "What ? For
TOY PLANES ? HA !!