ORIGINAL: Oberst
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
I was unaware that the AMA designed and tested radio systems independently from the radio manufacturers...
If something like this is going on, the AMA is testing and evaluating prototypes provided to them by the radio industry, as they have always done.
The AMA was introduced to 2.4 at about the same time as the rest of the market....as I recall, they got a DX6 a litle bit earlier than the various radio reviewers.
In the last 6 years, I have had zero 2.4 problems (I have never had a radio related issue with Spektrum after thousands of flights and have witnessed vanishingly few problems with any 2.4 system at many dozens of events that I have attended.)
I know that some seem to be having an inordinate amount of trouble in other areas of the country.
The article mentioned problems indoor with metal buildings. Must be more than a metal building issue, as I regularly fly at an area indoor event in a large, round all metal arena, with corrugated metal walls and lots of metal structure. I have seen at least 30 models flying at once indoors at this site, all 2.4, with zero radio issues over the last 4 years.