I read the AMA test procedure last night (535-F), in fact they do perform a test flight to first determine aircraft-based anomolies.
But your point about frame rate errors and the frequency with which they occur is can not be understated. As I have stated before, if everyone were made to observe how many times their particular pride and joy(s) experience loss of signal during any given flight, it might motivate a few to re-access their comfort level...you do not have to see it for it to be present. Quoting Bruce DeVisser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi Rob, > > Your test with a glitch counter is not a vaild measure of interference, > unless the model carrying it has been calibrated in a "clean environment", > like a radio test chamber, and the area under test has been profiled across > the user's frequency band. I've had hundreds of glitches recorded on > calibrated devices and not seen a single twitch from the plane. FYI... > > Bruce DeVisser > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [email protected] > Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 12:54 PM > Subject: [RCSE] Re:Signal strength switch? > > > Fact: It is very unlikely anyone flying a mile away is adversely affecting > > anyone at your field, irregardless of the frequency. Remember...the > receiver > would need to see on-frequency RF that is equal or greater from the > offending > transmitter to gain control. > > > The above statement is unfortunately incorrect. I used to think the same > way, but I have had my mind changed. We (North Alabama Silent Fliers) > unfortunately lost our field due to construction recently. In an effort to > find a new field we tried to move to a nice spot that is around 2.5 miles > from an existing RC site. We borrowed a small glitch counter from the AMA > (thanks to Steve Kaluf) and went trhough the procedures outlined by AMA to > test for interference between the two sites. Testing was done with a .25 > sized trainer aircraft, flown pretty far out but not near as far out as I've > flown an unlimited glider. The "interfering" transmitter easily registered at > the airplane from the distant (prospective) field. > > sorry to burst anybody's bubble, Rob Glover > > Radius Systems Cogito Ergo Zoom 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
