"Steve Nosko" wrote in message
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I am assuming that when the plane is out of range the battery switch
opens
and the plane nose dives.
Haven't opened the box yet but that is my intention to have the controls
work
Best regards
Art

YIKES! You haven't flown one yet??

Flying AND doing some kind of signal measurement??? Your idea of a
time-travel transponder is a good one. Me thinkth that you will be
spending
a long time learning to fly and building all the other equipment before
you
get to do any measurements

I don't know what you have, but the regular (the 'good' stuff) R/C
equipment
has a range exceeding one mile or 1.6 Km. This is much farther than you
will be able to see it.

Bought it on EBAY fgor $25 shipping included Now
camera type transmission to receiver is about 200 feet max so I do not
expect to be anywhere in the range that you state. Equipment built ready to
go. Keep it in your mind that the engines are driven by batterries and is
not the expensive motor type. Big difference.
Art

There are add-on accessories which will cause
something to happen when the transmitter disappears, but without one of
these, they can simply continue flying until the motor runs out. it may
or
may not turn or descend until then depending upon what the controls were
doing just before the signal died.

In the US, 27 MHz is a hazardous frequency to be on...don't know about
elsewhere. Good units are in the 75 MHz range.

Then you have to fly in the far-field, right?

...good luck.

I think I'd find a pilot (my son) and fly around with a receiver...
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73, Steve N, K,9;d, c. i My email has no u's.