On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 11:55:29AM -0500, Bruce Hobbs wrote: | Browne didn't mention that the contact with the power lines occurred | within approx. 150-200 ft. of parked cars and after witnessing over the | years 4 events where sailplanes lit up the sky after hitting high | voltage lines.....this one was by far the most spectacular.
Obviously not the lines I was thinking of then. The ones across the street, behind you when you're facing the field? I guess they're actually the same lines, but a different part of them ... | The Ava hit the lines then a huge blue-white ball of electricity danced | down the lines for approximately 15-20 seconds all the while making a | sound like a nuclear powered arc welder....very scary. You had plenty of | time to see this one unlike others I've seen. Wow. | Can't say definitively what caused these strange problems but all of a | sudden we have 3 dead receivers and there was a huge electrical | disturbance in close proximity.....I'm guessing sensitive receiver | components were fried by the EMF. Well, it probably would have fried your car radios too if it was really strong enough to fry your R/C receivers. I still think this is unlikely, but I won't say it's impossible. Sounds like the lines or insulators were damaged somehow, and they're emitting noise. And maybe they're still emitting noise, and so I'd certainly suggest that everybody does some serious range checks before doing any flying there. If planes that weren't there at all during the `event' fail the range checks, then you know it's noise and you'll need to call the electric company. As for the receivers that seem broken, do a range change somewhere else. If they pass, great. If not, then I guess the accident did damage them, and I'd suggest sending them in and hopefully the manufacturer can tell you what happened when they fix them. (Hopefully they'll figure it out, rather than just replace them.) All the receivers (JR, Berg) you've mentioned are usually single conversion, which would be vulnerable to different interference frequencies than the dual conversion receivers used by most other manufacturers ... that might explain it if others have no problems. (Or maybe that's just all that was out there at the time.) -- Doug McLaren, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Presume there is something that cannot be labeled. Call it 'X'." RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
