[Simpleton]

capgains, the thing is - You are using it with great success in rural Oregon. It'd probably work where I live. If RC Report was only sold to modelers in remote rural areas, there might indeed be no cause for alarm. But RC Report is sold to modelers who might not live in a rural area. It's not fair (or ethical, or wise) to promote a system that passed itself off as a spread spectrum, frequency hopping device to unsuspecting modelers who will believe it is (and therefore works) based on a magazine review.

I'm positive RC Reports wouldn't intentionally give a thumbs up to a system that didn't do what it was advertised to, but Gordon has stated before that he distrusts (or tends to not use/rely on) information gathered from the internet. Well, that's where the non-hopping proof is located. Would Gordon know that XPS doesn't hop? Who knows, he might even pass on a review if he knew it didn't perform as advertised. I don't know what type of 2.4Ghz activity is present where RC Reports reports from, it might fail on them and be a moot point.

The point is, if all you had to go on was the manufacturer's claim that it was a spread spectrum, frequency hopping device, and you had no way to verify this, and the system worked in the location where the review was done, you could very well say that it worked as advertised and be dead wrong.