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Fishtailing

Hi Ron, have you tried this? With the boat out of the water, turn the TX an RX on and watch the rudder as you walk away to see if it twitches (try operating the rudder a few times and wait). If nothing happens try running the motor and doing the same thing, if it twitches then you have a problem with electrical interference, (might be your antenna going over the motor, - assuming your motor is properly suppressed) If it twitches without the motor going and you get a fair distance away, it could be a dodgy Xtal, REC, or maybe servo (wouldn't have to be any distance away for the servo.) Another thought is - was anyone else on the same frequency as you or standing near you with a more powerful radio swamping your signal, (had that happen to me with FM in a plane - different freq but my cheaper ch radio was swamped by a Futaba 10 ch - guy got between me and the plane almost causing a crash)

5 years ago by jbkiwi