2.4Ghz radio control

[grant_ploughbot]

sounds very good! Atleast that could cover people untill its legalized

I guess you need to give them dates for using it? If so it may be worth st5ating all the winter tour and XFM dates until november?

[kane]

Need to get the pricing first... It may not be very cost effective to cover every event.

[big_nipper]

If this goes through and its implemented by November to allow these sets then I would be in favour of adding this to the list of approved frequencies.

[grant_ploughbot]

My personal opinion is that 2.4GHz sets should be the only frequency to be used in the future. It eliminates the risk of frequency clashes and interfierence, the failsafes on the BR6000 work perfect, and you can wrap the arials arouns an astroflight and still get loads of range without any glitch! You can even run the arials inside the robot so that there is no risk of loosing the arial and loosing control. All in all they seem to be a MAJOR boost in safety for events, especially for a heavyweight.

[leorcc]

I disagree. A lot of people have invested in proper 40Mhz tx and RXs and they have worked fine in the past. With proper transmitter control they dont need to be banned from the robot fighting circuit.

I do agree that safety wise it is a major step forward. Specialy in its price region.

[craig_anto]

Im with Leo, Tanto has no problems with range or interfernce (jus the rest of it thats crap). Id like to use a spektrum but am in no great rush all my 40 mhz is fine, if it aint broke dont fix it

[dmac]

Safety wise it is probably a good idea, at the champs, I had iterference for a short time when I was arming the robot, went away, Probably caused by someone on the Boating lake,but could have been a problem.
I normally dont have any problems with 40 Megs, has worked OK for all the time I have been involved with Robots, but anything that could be safer has my vote.

Dave. Leveller2.

[big_nipper]

Personally (not too much of an insult meant) I think its stupid saying that 2.4GHz is the only frequency we should use, because of safety issues. PCM was thought of as a major breakthrough and was supposed to be perfect but many people dont set the failsafes correctly (we also have been a victim of this) and so cause problems. What about those people who want to be innovative and want to make their own radio sets, 433 & 459MHz are very cheap to build, for example a 433MHz transceiver is less than £20 and you get 2 way communication, which can be made much safer if you wanted, but the fact is 40Mhz is reserved for land models only where 2.4GHz can be used by more or less anything. We should always give people choices, but that doesnt mean that we cannot recommend a preferred frequency, when (if) these sets become legal for use then we can start discussing adding it to the list. Events will always have there own sub-set of rules and like the UK Champs. They allowed users of these sets to run as a trial, even though they could have been prosecuted for doing so.

[jamesb]

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not worth the hassle that would follow.

[james...venom]

My personal opinion is that PCM should be compulsery in 40mhz sets especially in heavyweights. Robots are far too dangerous to take the risk with. The DX3s are already legal, are we ok to use them at future events?