ORIGINAL: dredhea
Some good advice from several people. My advice would basically be a recap of theirs, but I do have a question for everyone.
My local club has a long standing rule against flying on any channel that is within two channels of one that is in use. I used to be a radio technician in the service, so I understand the reason behind this rule, and since the club is relatively small (around 30 members) it doesn't create a big problem, but I was wondering if it's really necessary with today's narrow-band radio gear. I know that years ago, radios had a good deal of "drift" so you could actually be on one channel, but be "dirtying up" the channel above and/or below you. Just curious...
One of my planes is on channel 35, and a good friends is on 36... I've often flown at the same time standing a foot away from him and we have never had any problems... Many people in our club fly on adjacent frequencies and to date I don't believe we've ever had a problem. As you said, with todays equipment, unless you have a serious problem with your transmitter or xtal, your not going to interfere with any adjacent channels...
Just for kicks, you outta bring this up at the next club meeting you have... Since you used to be a radio tech you'll appreciate this... From the standpoint of "noise" that's generated, you will find there are probably much more "crap" being spit out on at least the first and second harmonic of the frequency, maybe even the third, than there is on the frequencies of the next adjacent channels...
