Frequency Checker

If there is someone else flying within 3 miles of you, he could cause you problems. If you fly at a club field, that usually isn't a problem.

Bruce B.

Scotty wrote:

| Is this important to have or will I be ok to fly w/o it, I don't frequent | areas with other flyers in them.

Only a very small fraction of fliers have one now.

They flew for decades without them ... it seems reasonable to assume that they could fly for decades more without them :)

Our Club just purchased one of these for the flying field, we check it now and then because we do have microwave towers and antenna arrays not far from our field. Several members have complained of "radio hits" while flying, these seem to occur around channels 41 thru 46. The channels 37 or 38 show live most of the time on our Frequency Checker. I even fly on 37, but have had no problems, yet.

| Our Club just purchased one of these for the flying field, we check it | now and then because we do have microwave towers and antenna arrays not | far from our field.

That's fine, but do be aware that the channel checkers are designed to pick up interference actually on our channels -- mostly from other fliers -- and not other forms of interference that would come from outside of our bands.

That said, they might pick up things that would interfere with your R/C receivers ... and might not. It all depends on how closely the receiver in the channel checker works like the receiver in a given airplane.

| The channels 37 or 38 show live most of the time on our Frequency | Checker.

What you need is a radio that can let you listen to the noise there. My guess would be a pager signal between the two R/C channels ...