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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!acorn!cwatters
- From: cwatters@acorn.co.uk (Colin Watters)
- Newsgroups: rec.models.rc
- Subject: 2IM problems - also in the UK
- Message-ID: <17751@acorn.co.uk>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 12:31:02 GMT
- Sender: cwatters@acorn.co.uk
- Organization: Acorn Computers Ltd, Cambridge, England
- Lines: 40
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- In article <1992Aug06.183610.2984@bmerh85.bnr.ca>, mkfeil@bcrki9.bnr.ca writes:
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- > I am in the process of trying to convince my club that 2IM is a real problem
- > now that odd channels are much more common. Any two transmitters operating 23
- > channels apart have the potential of wiping out every single conversion
- > receiver no matter what channels the receivers are on. This is because a 23
- > channel spacing is 460 Khz, which is very close to the 455 Khz intermediate
- > frequency of single conversion receivers.
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- I don't know if anyone outside the US replied but we have the same problem in
- the UK on the 35MHz band. For a while you could not get crystals for channel
- numbers above (our) no. 80 were available.
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- When numbers 80+ became available we had problems with people on low channel
- numbers (60ish interfering with channels 80+). On closer examination these
- turned out to be 23 channels apart.
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- Our channel spacing is 10 KHz so 23 channels is 230KHz = half the IF (455KHz).
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- I believe the recommendation from the BMFA (British Model Flight Association)
- is to avoid channels 80+ or put two pegs on the board.
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- I also believe the problem is one-way (ie 83 does not interfere with 60).
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