Radio interference on 15/03

[HOTSHOT III]

As title, myself and Matt Keene (who both run identical Sanwa MT-4 radios) suffered radio interference yesterday which would explain the rather poor acceleration of the ZX6 on the grid of yesterday's 4WD final.

Did anyone else experience any glitching? I had a couple of problems in practice as well, always in the same general area around the end of the main straight.

I don't know the full ins and outs of the technology but apparently a lot of smartphones operate on 2.4Ghz (Robin Holmes might be able to help with this) so would it be possible to have all phones switched off around the track area to see if the situation improves? Another club I used to race at had this problem, they got everyone to turn off their phones during racing and the problem went away.

It could well have been my own phone that caused this as I was pitting closest to this area.

[RudeTony]

It's near impossible for a phone to interfere with your radio.
Glitching is more down to receiver or sensor lead.
I would suggest you look at those.

Also asking the club member or guests to switch off their phones is like asking the club to shut up shop!

Just my opinion!

[shaun m]

I'm on sanwa and mine was fine yesturday ( i crashed on my own accord! ) , the only time i've only ever personaly had interference was with my futaba 3gr , and a power cap sorted that out , altho it only happend at one meeting and was fine after , without a power cap .

Alex .. i used to sometimes get issues at scrc , and wondered if the electric fence was the issue ( would go into failsafe mode , a 1/3 of the way down the straight , then clear again ) but i also had my phone in the car on the straight aswell , again not sure if a smart phone would cause issues.

[Cammers]

I had a glitch as I was following closely being Shaun on the final lap and going over the lower raised corner, just about to make a move and the car just flipped. I'm sure that was a glitch.

[Northern Monkey]

Originally Posted by Cammers

I had a glitch as I was following closely being Shaun on the final lap and going over the lower raised corner, just about to make a move and the car just flipped. I'm sure that was a glitch.

Didn't know your brain ran on 2.4Ghz Cammers

[tomtom]

I've got issues with an Exzes Z radio and RX472 receivers.
Without an aerial (short one was ok) I got issues.
On my ZX6 I had the receiver on the right side so I glued an aerial on the sidepods running from receiver to the rear end of the chassis but a small aerial is ok.