ORIGINAL: mr_matt
What if the secondary backup frequency was on 27 MHz? Does your field even have pins for 27 MHz?
Is that the proposal?
If so, then the idea is more stupid than I originally thought.
The 27mhz band is Car/Boat/Aircraft band and is the "toy" frequency that is used for the kind of R/C stuff you get at ToysRUs. (Did you notice the "Car/Boat" thing in there? We DO have children of club members bring out their R/C toys quite frequently, and no, there are no pins for them BECAUSE they are toys and don't affect our 72mhz band).
So what's the next idea? You can't use the 53mhz Ham band because that would prevent the use of a dual freq. system by non-Hams. Or would there be a rush of R/C people running out and getting their Ham license just for the purpose? And if that WERE the case, do you think that existing Hams are going to simply give up any of the very few channels they have now just so dual use jerks can hog THEIR channels?...(less than half as many as in the 72mhz band). That goes for the 50mhz Ham band as well.
That only leaves the 75mhz band but it's for Cars and Boats ONLY... oops.
OK, with the other R/C bands unusable, and without "hogging" other 72mhz R/C frequencies, what's left? Do you think that with the shortage of radio frequencies (and getting more "short" ), the FCC is going to carve out yet another valuable radio band just so (us pesky, irritating) R/C people can (unnecessarily) transmit on two (or more) frequencies at the same time?
This idea is not just impractical, it's downright ridiculous.
Highflight