Our product manager helped do the QC testing on the first shipment of these, and with multiple units was able to get over 200 feet with every single unit WITHOUT the external antenna. A couple went up to the 300 ft max range, others had a max range of around 230-270 feet. (With antenna, we easily got over 800 feet and close to 1000 ft)
With this sort of performance, I would feel safer with an extra rx and servos on mounted on a pole to wave around.... I thought this device sounded great at first, but it doesn't sound very useful at this point. Sailplanes in particular are susceptible to getting shot down because they are flown much farther out than the average RC plane. There is much more probability of your plane being closer to someone elses TX that is say 1/2 mile or 3/4 mile away. A test at your flying site from ground level with a meter that won't pick up distant signals is worthless. Yes it would be great in the impound area, especially if they put an alarm on it so it beeps whenever it hears conflicted signals..... Mark Mech www.aerofoam.com 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
