| While we were busy this past summer, a startling | | | | discrete channels, there is a very good chance that |
| development in rc aircraft radio has quietly crept into | | | | someone else at the field could interfere with control |
| view! | | | | of your rc aircraft if his or her radio is also turned on. |
| This rc radio control transmitter came on the scene | | | | The disastrous consequences of loss of control will at |
| under the name of the Spectrum DX-6 and is offered | | | | very least cause the plane to crash, thus posing a |
| by Horizon Hobbies. Somewhat resembling a | | | | very real danger to people and property in the flight |
| conventional rc radio in switches and levers, it is | | | | path. |
| anything but an ordinary rc aircraft radio transmitter in | | | | Another nice benefit is that the receiver for the |
| function! The most unusual aspect is that it operates | | | | Spectrum is very light and small and has two very |
| on the extremely high frequency range of 2.4 | | | | short wire antennas which can easily be concealed |
| Gigahertz as compared with the more common 72 | | | | within the plane's fuselage for enhanced scale effect. |
| Megahertz radios which we all have been using for | | | | Since the radios are highly unlikely to interfere with |
| many years. | | | | each other, it appears that soon there will be little need |
| "So what", you might say. Well, gigahertz frequencies | | | | for the careful frequency controls we have been using |
| are well above the megahertz band where ordinary tv, | | | | up to now. |
| radio, cell phones and garage door openers and most | | | | One new requirement has appeared with these new |
| communication devices are found. Furthermore, the | | | | radios and that is the need for an additional, duplicate |
| Spectrum radio employs a technique of locking on a | | | | receiver in some models with massive engines or |
| discrete frequency between itself and it's receiver | | | | structure which might serve to interfere with the |
| (located in the airplane) and once locked in, there is | | | | reception of radio signals under certain conditions of |
| literally a greater than million-to-one chance of another | | | | distance and positioning. |
| spectrum radio control transmitter locking onto exactly | | | | It appears that we are about to enjoy a massive leap |
| the same frequency. | | | | forward in radio technology with the advent of the |
| With our 72 megahertz radios, operating on about 40 | | | | usage of the gigahertz radio band. |