Since the external antenna is back ordered, I only had the unit itself.
The advertised range is 'up to 300 feet' but in fact that is an accurate statement...it is 'possible' for it to work at that but everything has to be just right.
Its real range is about 50' on the field with cars, tents, trees in the its line of sight.
It works GREAT and everyone should own one, but be clear, it is not for checking the general flying site for competing signals...at least not without the external antenna.
There was a guy about half way to the turn arounds on flying an electric and it did not read it, and I was at my truck on the parking area and about 100' away there were TX's on and I was not reading it.
Inspite of all that, pretty much everyone there is ordering one, very tiny and easy to use before you turn on anything else and a nice device to verify your TX synth module dial is reading a 6 not an 8 :-)
Gordy
Gordy,
300 ft is not a whole lot since your receiver( even a
"indoor" receivers can do better than that) will see a
signal from over 2000 feet. This unit might give you a false
sense of security. I fly in a lot of off field places to take
pictures. I would like to know if there is anything remotely (pun)
near my freq before I will fly. I have been using an Icom IC-R2
receiver before to check for freq. I would say a spare receiver
, a servo and a battery pack can do just as well to detect any
transmission on your frequency.
It probably is good for looking for transmitter in the impound
which has accidentally left on, or freq check at the impound to make
sure the flag shown is actually the correct channel. no the
transmitter is transmitting on!
Thank you for the info you given, I might have to cancel my
order.
Brian
