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A weird situation at the field
Hey all,
Just wanted to run this past ya.
Something strange happened this past Sunday.
Myself and a friend were flying FPV about a mile away from where my regular LOS field is, my friend experienced two instances of total control loss (still had video) with the same quad. I also had two instances of control loss (again video was fine) on two different quads. This all happened within the space of about half an hour. Three of the four instances resulted in loss along a perfect line in the field.
Unbeknown to us until later, three flyers at the LOS club site had similar experiences. Two of the lads unfortunately had control losses that totalled their models, the third was very nearly a total loss as well (recovered less than twelve inches from the ground apparently!) All three also had issues within quite a confined area.
All of these events we recon, happened within about an hour of each other and here's the cincher, all pilots were using Spektrum. Four of the TXs were DX18 Gen1 of various ages and the other was a two week old DX7s
I personally think it unlikely to be any kind of hardware failure and more likely some sort of bizarre RF event. There is a radio mast pretty close to both sites. We were using a variety of receivers, an AR7200BX, a DSMX sat, a lemon PPM rx with sat and a Lemon diversity RX and an AR8000 IIRC.
Just wondering what ya'll think about it?
Cheers
D
Just wanted to run this past ya.
Something strange happened this past Sunday.
Myself and a friend were flying FPV about a mile away from where my regular LOS field is, my friend experienced two instances of total control loss (still had video) with the same quad. I also had two instances of control loss (again video was fine) on two different quads. This all happened within the space of about half an hour. Three of the four instances resulted in loss along a perfect line in the field.
Unbeknown to us until later, three flyers at the LOS club site had similar experiences. Two of the lads unfortunately had control losses that totalled their models, the third was very nearly a total loss as well (recovered less than twelve inches from the ground apparently!) All three also had issues within quite a confined area.
All of these events we recon, happened within about an hour of each other and here's the cincher, all pilots were using Spektrum. Four of the TXs were DX18 Gen1 of various ages and the other was a two week old DX7s
I personally think it unlikely to be any kind of hardware failure and more likely some sort of bizarre RF event. There is a radio mast pretty close to both sites. We were using a variety of receivers, an AR7200BX, a DSMX sat, a lemon PPM rx with sat and a Lemon diversity RX and an AR8000 IIRC.
Just wondering what ya'll think about it?
Cheers
D
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