Although I have not flown on 27 mhz for many years, I have gone back to using these channels. Some of my older 53 mhz radios are getting hit so bad at our field that I started getting some of my older 27 mhz gear out and checking it out. I have a few Futaba 5UAF and 7UAF transmitters that take the smaller rf module. Now if I could find a
27 mhz am module....Great Planes/Tower/Futaba said they no longer made a 27 mhz module and none are available for the later transmitters that take the small rf module. Baloney! I began to dig around found they do indeed have a tx module that fits and costs about 30 + dollars. I ordered one and bought some of those 4 channel AM HPI receivers that are usually used in cars. They work great..super range checks, too...plus they are small and usually found on ebay for about twenty bucks. Flew a number of planes yesterday using the 27 mhz Futaba AM module and a couple of these receivers and it was just great. No glitches...and nobody there but me...I previously had access to a spectrum analyzer to use at the field to find out why my six meter stuff was being hit. Solution there was to move to the low end of the 50 mhz band, like channel 00 and 01 and so on. However, I checked the 72 amd 27 mhz bands while at the field and 72 was ok with a couple of pager signals showing up..and 27 was totally clear. So why not fly there?? If anyone wants to discuss this with me or find out about getting a 27 mhz am Futaba module for the later model transmitters (not the old Gold face units) they can contact me direct at snipped-for-privacy@bellsouth.net Frank Schwartz....- posted
18 years ago