[SPAM] Re: JR 10SX

[John Ferrell]

I flew there yesterday with Bill, no problems....

But I know my credibility is lacking,
after all I used to fly a V-tail Bonanza and 
I Rallyed Corvairs!

John Ferrell    
http://DixieNC.US

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Richards" <bob at toprudder.com>
To: <discussion at nsrca.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 11:35 AM
Subject: Re: [SPAM] Re: JR 10SX


> 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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