Popriv

We are printing a new board.

Any pictures of boards around for ideas?


thanks

JohnBuckner

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This is ours. Has seen little use of late. Not much 72 still in use here.

FILE IFR

Don't kill yourselves designing a new board, The 72 meg. band will see less and less use each year.

I'll dig out and donate my old phonograph and 8-Track player to your club to use for future funflies. ... just razzin' ya.

Popriv

how do you handle 2.4g ? do they have to put a pin on the board?

We will need a board for years to come..

steve

rgm762

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we only require 72 users to "pin" their frequency's, the 2.4 guys don't really need to. proably in a few years you won't need a frequency board. our "board is a T post with a piece of metal about 8" wide and 3ft long, even numbers on one side,odd on the other, you just clip a clothes pin on your number

JohnBuckner

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We are a fairly small club just over thirty with a fairly high percentage of active flyers compared to others in the region.

There is no need or purpose to pin up for us. The board is still there for now so seventy two flyers are to still pin up and therefore police their own. Its so rare now The 72 flyer needs only peruse the flightline simply by noteing the antenas.

For most here the chief motivation for the change was indeed freedom from the board and and if anyone were to suggest that the 2.4 flyers should still be required to pin up then I dare say they likely would be delt with some stern western justice and run out of town

John

JollyPopper

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tarred and feathered?????????????

FILE IFR

As a member of 4 different clubs, they all have a freq. board.

We may see 2 or 3 pins (72 megs) on it during a busy day of 10+ pilots.... 2.4 gig TX's are kept with the pilots (no pin required to fly).

All the events I've been to during the past 2 years say that if you have a 2.4 gig TX, keep it with you... be it a common funfly or jet events.

jetmech05

I am familiar with 2 clubs in the Jacksonville area.
Both clubs are on city owned property. We cannot stop a non club member from flying at our fields. However AMA membership is required for all members and non members to fly, by both club and city rules.
Both clubs have an area near the freq board for 2.4 users to pin their AMA cards. The reason is simple how do you know if a person is a current member of the AMA if he doesn't post his card.
I remember one year a good friend of mine had his card up in March, but it was for last year, he simply forgot to re-new.

kiwibob72

Read this link on 2.4 gig systems from Specktrum ([link]http://www.spektrumrc.com/DSM/Technology/spekTech.aspx[/link]), and note that with regards to the 'GUID' code that these 2.4 Specktrum systems use to lock themselves in, you'd need a club with about with 4.2 BILLION models/pilots before your gonna need any pegs on a board (that said, I'd like to see that board if it's ever required - she'd be a biggin' for sure! - LOL)

psuguru

We used to operate a peg-off, card-on scheme.
the peg board has a clip that goes round the antenna with the channel number attached. The flier removes the peg, attaches it to the antenna and puts the club membership card on the pegboard. No transmission without the peg!
That way, anyone transmitting should have a peg and if the channel's being hogged, you know who to go to.

We don't operate 2.4GHz in the same way, we just put our club cards on the peg-board.

mclina

Instead of a frequency board, our club uses a pin pole. Our membership cards double as a frequency pin, and the secretary gives us as many pins as we need for all of our channels.

There are places on the pole to clip your pin for flying, ground tuning, or waiting in line. Even the 2.4Ghz guys need a pin, so that we can tell how many planes are in the air and who is waiting their turn to fly.

It seems to work pretty well.

http://www.495thsquadron.org/Safety_Pinpole.htm