I am fortunate to live in the area where FMA is located, and I drove up to their Facility at Frederick Mayrland to take them up on thier offer to tune my transmitter for free. I got there and their tech guy Howard was very friendly and started testing my transmitter right away. It turns out that my transmitter was quite a ways off frequency and over modulated [:@] Howard carefully adjusted my radio to the point that it was dead on frequency and modulatoin. While I was there Howard also checked and tweaked both of my FS8 recievers for optimum performance and also gave me lots of good advice.. For example to use an opto isolator on my large plane where ALL the servo leads are over 48 inches [X(]

The transmitter tuning fixed the problem. Today I collapsed the transmitter antenna while the plane was 600 feet in the air (measured) , and while it would go into fiailsafe intermittently, I had full control of the airplane and could fly around just fine. With the antenna up, my previous range issues were gone The FS8 reciever gave me better performance and rejection of the interference from my onboard video transmitter than my JR reciever does.

I also bought the flight recorder module while I was there, and its really neat to be able to see exactly what was going on with todays tests. The FS8 reciever has so many neat features that I will eventually replace ALL my recievers with FS8 units. There are very few companies that would help out thier customers to the extent that FMA does, which is just icing on the cake

Thanks Guys,

JettPilot