[LASS Soaring] "The Effect of Many Radios On Easy Gliders?"

[GordySoar at aol.com]

Recently I was flying with about 37 guys who all had their radios on, many  
of them were invisible but I could tell that they had 2.4gigglehurts  systems.  
Many many others had IPD RX's working with very high powered but  cheap three 
channel FM TXs, but they weren't very tall (the pilots not the the  TX's 
(which is okay).
 
Many many others were tall but had other brands of batteries in their  
models, slowly as the flight went on, the group of pilots and their TXs began to  
close closely together (not sure why because it wasn't that cold and they  
weren't whispering).
 
After a long while (it was a pretty good air day), the group was almost  
shoulder to should ('almost' because some were taller and some had longer  
antenna's because the 2.4 gigglehurts system owners were mostly pretty short,  
however there were two of them (the antenna's not the pilots)
 
Hopefully Manufacturers have tested for this happening but as one of the  one 
design Easy Gliders flew past, the emissions caused it to distort  and writhe 
in the air pretty wildly (of course pretty would be a  eye-of-the-beholder 
thing).  I suppose the mix and power of all those guys  heights and TX's, and 
antenna count could have been the reason because the  really weird thing since 
that day is that the Easy Glider in question now  turns green and powerful when 
irritated.  Which concerns me because all of  my sailplanes are red on the 
bottom, white on top with red tips.
 
Who knows what the result of mixing all these Easy Gliders, heights,  antenna 
count and etc will be on our hobby, but I for one think there's a pretty  
weird story yet to be told... yet.
 
Gordy



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