DeeEight
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Joined: 9/18/2006
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Sigh... can't resist. Some facts on Jim that most of you (other than the ones who also paintball) probably aren't yet aware of, but should be made aware of.
#1 Jim Drew IS a competent enough electronics guy to make relatively simple aftermarket circuit boards for hobby groups who have members with lots of money, and not enough time/skill to make the things themselves. He's done this with both Amiga computers and the Paintball industry.
#2 Jim Drew IS also prone to overhyping his own products, making claims of trademarks and patents which do not exist (according to the actual US Patent and Trademark office anyways), and throwing around nonsensical scientific terms that'll dazzle and confuse people who know nothing about the subject, and bring dazzling fits of laughter to those who actually do know about the subject.
Google his name and Amiga and Paintball and you'll all learn the history behind these two facts.
#3 When real experts call him out on his claims on a discussion forum (such as happened on paintball nation a couple years ago), he'll resort to begging/threatening the board admins to have every post he's made deleted, then respond to new posts saying he never claimed that and that there's no proof of it.
That too can likely be found in a google search, simply because of how many debated the ethics/morality of discussion boards doing that to posts (since otherwise new users to the forums/sport might find the threads, and be educated as to who's real, and who's fake).
Examples would be his previous claims to having a trademark on the term "debounce", even though its an electronics industry wide term common to anyone who has to work with/designing things like joysticks, mice, mouse pads, etc. In this discussion here about these new rc chips, he's already claimed to have invented things ten years ago.
Now as to the claims about 2.4Ghz transmitters... why anyone would wanna go to a wavelength that by its very nature is designed for reduced range in a sport where better range is the usual goal is beyond me. The only advantages to it really is that its a worldwide unlicensed frequency and its capable of high speed and bandwidth. Good if you want to market your cordless phone in ONE version worldwide, or make wireless ethernet adapters, or baby monitors... that's about it. The signal strength rapidly degrades though, which also makes it so that you don't really have to worry about people three blocks over stealing your internet connection bandwidth, or overhearing your cordless phone convo on a scanner. Also Microwave ovens usually operate in the 2.4ghz band, so I wouldn't wanna use an RC plane with such a controller anywhere near a microwave over (don't fly it your helicopter over the house while the wife is cooking).
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RE: XtremeLink™ - 2.4GHz for Futaba, JR, and Hitec... - 
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but beware if they start taking pre-order for "XtremeLink" products. There is intense interest and modelers (as we all know better) are compulsive shoppers especially when it is presented with such irresistible temptations. It could generate considerable amount of cash in a short time (you know the rest).
