Proposals from the RFL

well the UK champs are over, are there plans to revisit the weight limits?

I realise that I am probably jumping the gun quite considerably but I think its important that it doesnt disappear off the radar.

Just a thought, what happens about radios? Obviouslyu people from different countries run on different band widths!

Well they were the first to start a 2.4Ghz craze and its relatively easy to borrow a different tx/rx combo for an event if need be, so as long as you dont start transmitting on an illegal frequency in another country Im sure youd be OK!

I think that we will just have to make do as far as radios go unless we all were on 2.4gig

Frequencies allowed depend on the country you are competing, its not under our control so they will have to abide by the regulations just like we do.

we were allowed to use 40 meg in the states although I am not saying that that will be true of every trip. It did however make getting the transmitter out far easier :)

2.4 gigs is legal both here and in the US. It would be interesting to hear what those who operated 2.4 gigahertz at the UK Champs have to say about it. The one machine I saw operating with it had no problems. Also 27 megahertz is legal both here and in the US.

John you should take alook at the 2.4Ghz radio control thread in the Safety Discussions section, reports and comments are just starting to come through.

Short answer on Tx freq issues in the US.

Many Eruo freqs are illegal, depending on how you read the laws (or not, depending on how you read them.)

Im not the FCC, and my concern is with two Txs on the same freq, not what freq that is. If the FCC comes down on us and has an officer there, they can enforce it. Its not our job to worry about a micro-watt transmitter operating on a freq that no one outside our event is using. Its not like your interfearing with air traffic control...

If a bunch of guys come over with 40 MHz Txs, my greatest concern would be making more clips for the respectvie freqs. (we do run tight freq control as to if your Tx is on when that particular channel hasnt been checked out - thats a safety issue, nothing more.)

The 2.4 operating frequency will be discussed at the next FRA meeting. There are potential safety issues to be worked out. ( These do not concern the frequency its self at the moment )
At the UK champs 2.4 users were allowed to keep their transmitters as there was only a few of them. A robot did have an out of control problem when useing 2.4. This is being investigated as to the cause.

Regarding weights etc, the FRA have had no proposals from the RFL to discuss.
We have offered the RFL a meeting to chew over things but so far have not replied to our mail.