ORIGINAL: MormonMike
OK guys heres a different one. A friend of mine from upstate New York who flys quite regularly and lives about 25 minutes from an AMA site says he's "fed-up" with other locals who are not club members flying off of open fields close enough to his homeflying site that he is taking "hits" whenever he decides to fly at his personal site at his home. He stated that he feels its in his rights to leave on his TX and also to have a spare TX to leave on before, during and after his flying. This is supposedly to bring down anyone else that might be flying on his Freq. His logic is to safely fly his own expensive RC's and not to care about anything else in the area on his channels. I did'nt know what to say. I know its wrong but what can I say to him without starting a fight [or at least, a very heated argument] Request replys please.[
] MM.
A couple of points here that don't make much sense....I know this is a second hand account of the guy but since it's posted......
You say he is "fed-up"with people that are flying at their private site yet he is doing the same thing. Does the fact that they are not club members mean that there would be some form of frequency control if they were?
You say, "he is taking hits whenever he decides to fly at his personal site ". If that is the case I'd say it's probably a problem with his gear because it's highly unlikley that someone is on his channel evertime he goes flying.
Leaving his transmitter on seems like a waste of time and makes me think he's some kind of a-hole, the same as someone at our field who leaves their flag up all the time. He'd be a lot wiser to get a frequency scanner to see if there is actually someone using a particular frequency.
JR's suggestion of dropping a dime to the FCC and his subsequent quoting of regs is just plain silly as they are spending most of their time worrying about radio talk shows than to bother with something such as actual technical infractions like they are supposed to do.
(Edited so as not to be hypocritical and do the same thing I'm accusing someone else of....)