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Old 05-18-2012 | 08:47 AM
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Default RE: Spectrum receivers

ORIGINAL: Tony Iannucelli

I've used orange receivers since last year with my JR 2.4 transmitter.

Bottom line, buy one or two, and have no fear.
Yup.

I've done slant distance tests out to 1800 feet w/o any problems with the Orange RX's.

The problems I've had with the 6Ch are not due to range or brownouts... ( it occurred within 50 feet of me repeatable on three different 6CH RX's, but not so on the other RX's. )
Just a firmware glitch, that hopefully has been corrected by now.

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BTW: To those denigrating the multiple node ( satellite ) systems... here's some empirical evidence for you....

There is a You Tube video up where someone in the U.K. took a Spektrum RX out to 2.2 kilometers line of sight slant distance ( 7217 feet! ) on a stock setup, utilizing FPV for visual control.

He then proceeded to replace the TX's antenna with a directional Yagi type and was able to achieve another .7 kilometers of distance.