casedog21
New member
I just got back from #FFE2017 and again it was a great experience. This year we had two new guys with us that hadnt been before and they had a great time as well.
I noticed that there seemed to be a lot of people, including the five of us that had radio issues at some point during the event.
All of us had brownouts at some point. A few of them were recoverable but most were not.
This also happened at our flying field a few weeks ago on two separate occasions. We noticed that every time we went flying there was someone either in our group or other pilots around us that had a brown out. It was a mix of park flyer receivers and full range receivers in our group.
I personally have a hitec aurora 9x and up until 2 weeks ago I have never had a brownout on it. The brownouts that I had I was luckily able to recover each time. I know its still in the 2.4 band but it is supposed to frequency hop.
At flitefest I had 3 brown outs. 2 of them were at night. One was during the day. Both were parkflyer receivers. All were in a reasonable range. 1 of the night flights, I was one of 3 people flying. It happened twice that night.
Just trying to sort it out. Is there a new telco service popping up everywhere that is broadcasting on 2.4?
I wish I had my spectrum analyzer with me so I could have taken a look at the signal/noise while I was out there both at my home field and at FF.
I have full range receivers in most of my gear and they did not have a problem. I want to say that may be the problem but everyone else in my group has full range receivers in most of their planes and are flying spektrum radios.
Any ideas?
Thanks for any input.
-Casey
I noticed that there seemed to be a lot of people, including the five of us that had radio issues at some point during the event.
All of us had brownouts at some point. A few of them were recoverable but most were not.
This also happened at our flying field a few weeks ago on two separate occasions. We noticed that every time we went flying there was someone either in our group or other pilots around us that had a brown out. It was a mix of park flyer receivers and full range receivers in our group.
I personally have a hitec aurora 9x and up until 2 weeks ago I have never had a brownout on it. The brownouts that I had I was luckily able to recover each time. I know its still in the 2.4 band but it is supposed to frequency hop.
At flitefest I had 3 brown outs. 2 of them were at night. One was during the day. Both were parkflyer receivers. All were in a reasonable range. 1 of the night flights, I was one of 3 people flying. It happened twice that night.
Just trying to sort it out. Is there a new telco service popping up everywhere that is broadcasting on 2.4?
I wish I had my spectrum analyzer with me so I could have taken a look at the signal/noise while I was out there both at my home field and at FF.
I have full range receivers in most of my gear and they did not have a problem. I want to say that may be the problem but everyone else in my group has full range receivers in most of their planes and are flying spektrum radios.
Any ideas?
Thanks for any input.
-Casey