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This past weekend I was sailing in the Sun City Regatta and after the first seeding heat, I lost control of my RMG 280DL sailwinch. Never lost control of my rudder. I am using Futaba 2.4 6EX radios.
After missing a couple of heats rewinding the sheets, reprogramming the winch, and swapping out the transmitter with a new one right out of the box, I tried again. Everything worked great until the last windward leg to the finish and the winch went bad again.
Rick West was kind enough to help me investigate the problem and we noticed a loose power connection to the receiver. That was corrected, sheets rewound, winch reprogrammed and the boat was placed in the water for the next heat.
Same problem near the end of the heat and I couldn't finish the race. This time Gerry Cobley and John Bottensek offered help. Eventually, everything was working again, on land.
When I turned on the transmitter for my next heat, Rick's electronics and another competitor's boat went crazy. When I turned my transmitter off, everything was fine again. (Rick and the other person, I'm so sorry for creating the problems.)
Sunday afternoon, I took both of my transmitters to the local hobby shop that completed the recommended testing as noted from a Futaba tech update. Both transmitters passed the test without any issues.
Before I go back to my old PCM radio, does anyone have any ideas?
1. I tried two different transmitters
2. I tried two different receivers
3. Could a short somewhere in the wiring in the boat be causing signals to be sent to other boats?
4. Could my old RMG 280DL be sending signals to other boats?
Any help would be very much appreciated.
Thanks
Skip Allen [?][?][?]