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Old 04-30-2018 | 02:13 PM
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I am with Craig. It is the manufacturer's responsibility to characterize how their equipment works best, and if there are multiple choices, they should explain which is best for what purpose. The information we'd need to figure this out is NOT in the manual .. as a "new to Jeti" person I have read it carefully. I have gotten conflicting advice from this forum and from the importer on how to use multiple 2.4GHz RXs, how to connect the 900MHz. I guess they think it's ok for us to all experiment with it. I've also been curious how dual RXs work with the Assist Receivers. Do you need two of them with all the settings identical? That's if you are all-2.4GHz. What about with a 900MHZ backup? Do you fail over to 900MHz and lose the stabilization (that's no so bad .. but is that right?). Silence on that one so far.

Also, this stuff about "fly a few flights at a quiet field and sort out antenna placement" .. oh my. I have been a long-time Futaba user, and say what you want about their lack of innovation (especially on telemetry) but their RF link is rock solid. My idea in getting a Jeti was to get better system capabilities .. and not to move backwards to the Spek/JR nonsense of extra satellites and fade counters (that's what a manufacturer puts in their RF link when it works poorly and has to be tuned by the end user) .. but hopefully to move forward to a solid 2.4 link backed up by the 900 MHz. Very attractive given the proliferation of 2.4GHz signals at some flying sites.

Now I am really getting concerned about putting this Jeti stuff in an expensive jet. I guess many have done it but even the well-experienced folks here on the forum don't seem to really know how things work and why certain configs are preferred. "Well it seems to work for me" is really just not good enough.

Discomforting to say the least. Hoping if I keep listening and learning I can get past this.

Dave