ORIGINAL: Silent-AV8R
ORIGINAL: Oberst
The FAA has nothing to do with why our hobby is getting out of the 2.4GHz system.
When did this happen? We are now getting out of 2.4?? Really? Who is selling radios on a different band? Can you give me a link or something? This is astonishing news!
I think I wrote a few pages back that the new system is under development. Did I not?
Oberst
I had a long private conversation with Dave Mathewson and he asked me not to write or tell anyone what the 2.4 will be replaced with.
I guess you didn't read between the lines, but that's OK. The responses have been quick in here and it's easy to just skim over what has been written.
I got my info right from the AMA. I can tell you it is going to be replaced and why, I can not tell you what it's being replaced with. I promised Dave that I wouldn't. Dave reads the AMA forums and I'm not going to break his trust by writing the info he asked me not to publish.
What I can tell you is the AMA will be making changes, and that the 2.4 will be replaced by what is now being developed and currently in the testing phase. They are replacing the 2.4GHz system before the phone companies request the higher spectum channels, and has the FCC notify the AMA that they can't have 2.4 GHz radios using what was once open channels.
I can not tell you any more info than that so don't bother trying to get it out of me. All you need to know is that the AMA is aware of the 2.4GHz problems and has known about it for the last 3 years and the new 2.4GHz replacement is under development. It's finally now that they mentioned it in MA that issues do exist. Anyone who knows how to read between the lines can comprehend what the article was truly saying.
Again, about time!
Pete