<div>Great report!</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/12/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">JShulman</b> <<a href="mailto:jshulman@cfl.rr.com">jshulman@cfl.rr.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><br>Well, I got out the 2.4 and put it in my beater trainer... and "beat it up".<br>Of course, it was anti-climatic as it didn't give me anything even close to
<br>a problem. I didn't get to do antenna position testing (too much fun<br>flying), but on this<br>day, the RX was stuck in the foam with the antenna side facing up. One<br>antenna was kind of vertical (had to curve it forward) and the other was
<br>moved horizontal, towards the back, next to my throttle servo and on-off<br>switch.<br><br>The first flight was short. I arrived to the field about noon and took out<br>my fuselage so I could install the Rx. Having been flying my 14 in my
<br>trainer (and always getting weird looks cause of it) I had to remember which<br>plugs where to what. 5 minutes later, the trainer was programmed and ready<br>to go on the 2.4. I did a quick range test on the ground, about 100 paces
<br>and it was solid so I fueled, started it and took-off... no issues. But<br>after 2 minutes the motor died. Hmmmmm... then I remembered, I forgot to<br>replace the carb with the new one I just bought, oops. 5 minutes later again
<br>and it was purring like a kitten. So take-off again, and point the nose up<br>(about 20 degrees, its under-powered) and start climbing for the clouds.<br>Well the clouds were really up there, so after 10 minutes of climbing to
<br>them, and seeing that my 54" plane was now a speck in the sky, I flew around<br>for a little bit. Went from one end of the field to the other, all the way<br>up there. Now at our field, we have a big cell phone tower right in front of
<br>us about a mile away. Having flown on both the left and right of it didn't<br>produce any interference at that altitude. My friend Ryan, who was watching<br>all this, said I was somewhere between 1500-2000 ft. I'll take his word for
<br>it as he<br>flies some full-scale and looking down from that altitude gives him a<br>different perspective. After my neck couldn't stand it anymore, I dove the<br>plane down (I did throttle back) and about 4 minutes later I had it back on
<br>the ground.<br><br>Now this plane is one that I bought literally to go and beat up with the<br>understanding that at any given moment it will crash. Usually intentionally,<br>but as it's also my test plane for radio equipment, other things can happen.
<br>So Ryan fueled it up and preceded to have some fun with it. Full power<br>touch-n-goes, wing-tip skids and the occasional "oops" prop balancing<br>touch-n-go.<br><br>So the third flight was my turn to abuse it, after a new prop was put on it.
<br>High power touch-n-goes (some hit-n-goes to shorten and rebalance the prop),<br>wing-tip hits and full power,<br>full pull loops and turns. Others wanted to see the range of the<br>system. I rocketed up to that<br>speck again. I landed, fueled
<br>and went back up. This time there was a Spektrum flying at the same time, no<br>problem. Someone else said "I've got 5 other Spektrums mind if I turn them<br>on"... I said go get them.<br><br>So he runs back to his trailer, grabs all his radios and starts turning
<br>them on while he's walking up to me. He gets to me and says, that's 6 total<br>Spektrums on (and I'm a speck again) and he's really impressed. Of course<br>I'm getting bored up in the clouds so I bring it back down. On the way down
<br>he has another idea... line the radio's on the edge of the runway and let<br>me do my high speed demolition flying. He puts his Spektrums along the edge<br>of the run way and I come screaming by and do one of my multiple
<br>bounce-n-goes and it's rock solid. I come back the other way and same<br>result, shorter prop but solid link. By this time, we are<br>all impressed with the system.<br><br>So that's 2 spread spectrum systems working at the same time, with no
<br>issues. The future is bright.<br><br>Regards,<br>Jason<br><a href="http://www.jasonshulman.com">www.jasonshulman.com</a><br><a href="http://www.shulmanaviation.com">www.shulmanaviation.com</a><br><a href="http://www.composite-arf.com">
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