[SPAM] Re: JR 10SX

[Bob Richards]

Bill,

I am one of the people that will not fly at that
field. I went to two contests there, at the first,
lots of people crashed from interference (five or
six?). At the second, same situation, and I almost
crashed from interference. Both times all I heard from
club memebers were "we've never had a problem here". I
could buy that at the first contest, but not the next,
since I SAW the problems at the first contest.

I did a check with a spectrum analyzer there at the
second contest, but it was not conclusive. However,
while I was there under the shelter, a flyer asked for
a pin on one of the ham freqs. The club member who was
handling the impound gave it to him. A few minutes
later the flyer came back, said he almost crashed, and
asked if I saw anything on his freq. Before I could
dial in that freq, the impound person, the one that
gave him the pin, said "oh, we have a problem on that
freq". I was appalled.

I would like to know why I was getting hits there.
I've not had a problem anywhere else that I have
flown. I had talked with someone after the fact about
what I should be looking for based on the particular
radios that seemed to be getting hits. I suspect there
is a logical explanation for why the hits were
happening, too lengthy to go into online. I believe
there is a problem there. I'm sorry, but I will not
fly there until it can be explained, and I don't think
that is going to happen as long as the club members
want to believe there is no problem.

Bob R.


--- Bill Glaze <billglaze at triad.rr.com> wrote:

> Ed:
> Do you not think that we will always be subject to
> interference as long 
> as we are "secondary" users?  Admittedly, more could
> be done. 
> As an aside: I fly frequently at a field that has a
> huge (2000 ft. tall) 
> antenna directly behind us.  It is no more than 300
> yds. away at the 
> flyers 6 o'clock position.  Yet, even though pattern
> flyers won't come 
> and fly there, (probably because of the frightening
> specter of that 
> powerful antenna) folks fly there literally every
> day of the year with 
> no interference.  I'm one of the frequent flyers. 
> Unfortunately, it 
> seems that most of the pattern folks have just
> enough information to be 
> dangerous when they shun this field..  BTW: a check
> for interference 
> shows that there is less interference literally in
> the shadow of this 
> antenna, than there is at another local  field, yet
> the other field, 
> which shows a higher level of "hash" is quite
> popular.  Ignorance is bliss.
> 
> Bill Glaze
> 

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