Real Cost of Narrow Banding
The price of updating your equipment for the coming use of odd-numbered channels might be the best investment in RC gear you've ever made. HOW OFTEN have many of us said, "I'm just going to keep using my wideband radios until they quit working well - after all, they'll still be legal after 1991!"? If equipment legality were all we had at stake, that would be fine. But in the real RC environment - a 20-kHz-separated flight line situation combined with a 10-kHz nearby potential for PRS (public radio service) interference - what's legal isn't necessarily appropriate. The FCC intentionally made the new standards as unconstraining as possible. Using the FCC standards as a guide for our equipment needs of the '90s can result in lots of headaches for everyone - wideband users included. In other words, FCC legality doesn't relate to realworld radio requirement disciplines.
