Futaba 2.4 and Carbon Fiber models
By Moderator request, this post was transferred from the Futaba radio factory support thread.
Hello everyone,
Well, the issue of 2.4 Gig receivers and all carbon fiber models has surfaced again at our Club and sparked considerable debate. Some of the JR jet flyers say they are by-passing the signal blanking issue. They mount each of their JR remote antennas in their models to minimize frequency blanking by any CF components. Popular remote RX locations are within aircraft's dorsal spines, within all-plastic canopies, or fiberglass nose cones or belly tanks.
Those of us Die Hard Futaba Flyers have a different problem. We have no remote receivers to mount in RF transparent portions of our models. With one RX we have to find ONE place that gives us the 90 degree antenna spread AND has RF "holes". OR, I suppose, we can entirely forget flying any all-carbon fiber models. Neither of these two choices are very good solutions.
Has anyone flying a Futaba 2.4 rig come up with other solutions to this dilemma? Is there a way to use base-loaded antennas with the 2.4 6014 RXs to maintain a RELIABLE link? From cursory Google and RCU searches, THE answer to this question still seems to be forthcoming.
Care to share in the debate?[sm=rolleyes.gif]