ok gents based on my experience ...nil.....still it would seem that all formatts of battling....would benefit from gathering under one Flag...or governing body....Events can feature..many rule types..Gathering of resources so to speak...We all love boats ..and we all Love Shooting...pump it up
Hey you know I have wondered about that for a very long time. Only thing I can come up with is that a major portion of people do not like to be told what they can and cannot do like the goverment tells people. Just my thought here I always kind of hoped that the major groups would call a truce and reform back under one banner and like you said on gov body.
There are multi-format events on occasion. This website is dedicated to all rulesets, but I don't think it is likely that everyone will agree on one government... nor do I think we should.
Probably won't happen, but imagine if everybody had ships built to the same format.You would have battles with 40-50 ships on the water, and in terms of a National Event you'd probably run out of radio freq. Scott
I think the problem with that is the different formats exist because everyone is looking for something different from the hobby. Each format has a aspects that other people just don't like: For example, Big gun guys hate fast gun speeds and fast gun guys hate big gun speeds. I think the best we can really hope for is mixed format events, and cross-format information sharing using tools like this website. Good Mike
Unless of course you happen to have a vivado point to point com panel pointed through your pond... (the vivado panels locally here will blanket the entire 2.4 spectrum between the two panels)
Greg, get a ham radio license and kick the power up a notch The poor vivado will cry as you fearlessly battle on 2.4GHz
Luckily here, vivado went out of buisness a year or two ago... and most of our ponds are not in a typical line of communication... (although spokane county still has some around) Don't get me wrong, I love 2.4 ghz and run it on my ships, but frequency issues on a fundamentally unregulated band will always pop up...
It is regulated... if you aren't a primary user, you can't run more than 5W ERP, you cannot cause interference to a primary user, and you have to suck it up if a mean primary user decides to fire up his 1.5kW amp to run his RC boat. For reference purposes, in the 23cm band, hams are secondary users, and the militray is a primary. When the USAF detected interference to it's PAVE PAWS array, all hams in the area got to reduce power to 5W in lieu of shutting down in those frequencies. That's how primary/secondary works Just works FOR hams in 2.4GHz.
While we are speaking about Radios has anyone seen the Polk's Hobbies 6 Channel synthised channel system for 180.00?...was thinkin a great entry level system
