I've had the old interest sturred again after many years away and I've been surfing and buying magazines to try and catch up. It was comical that someone asked if balsa could be painted, whatever happened to sanding sealer, and model airplane dope, fuel proof and non-fuelproof? Where's Amberoid and Testors glue gone, have the druggies eliminated them? I guess silkspan isn't available either, eh?
Anyway, the subject of this post is frequencies. There seem to be some that are not used, 15, 19 and 49, as well as others that some clubs don't use. I can see that there would be advantages to spreading the use of frequencies around so that members would be able to fly at the same time, but why are some not used at all? How does one find equipment of a given frequency or can frequencies be changed by re-programming or crystal swapping? Or is it just the luck of the draw?
Just getting the ducks in line.