RE: *Airtronics RD8000 2.4 GHz*
RCAddiction,
It sounds like you guys need to ban that guy from your field forever for the safety of everyone!!!! I agree with you 100% on the situation with bad receiver installations on 2.4. I think it will probably take another year or two for the vast majority of our flyers to finally realize that 2.4 IS different from what we got very used to with 72mHz. I've actually seen guys trying to make the arguement that the placement of the antennas at 90 degrees from each other wasn't really necessary because "they" didn't bother doing it and haven't "had a problem" yet. With a system that can become "blinded" by a solid object <like a large gas ignition engine> the antenna diversity is critical.
It would have been interesting to have had a little more detail from LowesInstaller like what kind of airplanes he had the radio system in and if after the crashes he tried to see if the system worked on the bench or did the receivers really loose the bind with the transmitter?