If your goal is safe flying, a real investment in a quality scanner is a must for any club or serious end user. The Aerospectra is a commercial grade hand held unit that gives meaningful info. Not only what frequencies are on, but their db and bleed over into adjacent channels. You can zoom in and analyze a small section of the frequency band, or view the whole spectrum for interference. Of course the only accurate way to measure is with an antenna that can accurately scan the entire area.
The price is beyond the budget of most individuals at $895.00, but for a club it makes a great investment. We used one at all our events in Elmira, and saved many aircraft with it, as well as track down offending transmitters with splatter. http://www.aerospectra.com/ JD Endless Mountain Models http://www.scalesoaring.com email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2005 9:24 PM To: Soaring@airage.com Subject: [RCSE] Had a chance to try the Freq Checker this weekend Gordy, if I'm not mistaken the Multiplex Evo with scanner module will do this and more. Thanks for the Evo info, but I was posting information about the Hobbico Frequency Checker. Evo owners will be happy to know that they don't need one, if they have paid a few hundred for the Evo option :-) The Frequency Checker is a cool and tiny 'tool' that everyone should have including Evo owners with the option installed.... Fits in any flight kit and with the flick of a switch gives the looker an at a glance view of all 50 freqs busy or open...'nearby'. If anyone else has tried one with an external antenna hooked up, post us your findings. Pretty sure you could find an antenna to fit at Radio Shack. Might need a little mod to plug in but its just a single point connection. Likely a piece of coat hanger would do it :-) Gordy 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
