On 12/08/2011 23:46, Andy wrote:

The need in the USA for a permanently attached FLARM antenna was the
FCC's requirement not something FLARM wanted to do.

How did you arrive at that conclusion?

The documentation on file at FCC clearly indicates that the reason the
antenna is locked into position is that the connector type is not FCC
approved. It is my conclusion that FLARM chose this compromise to
avoid the delay of changing to an approved connector.

Absolutely. Actually, they tried to do it with bits of string and super
glue but too many people like you noticed (you are SO sharp!) and the
impedance was a bit high.

And then...total disaster! It has to be 30cm from all your other
antennae - AND THE COMPASS! If they were honest, trustworthy folks,
they would have made it a proper 12 inches instead of these uppity,
foreign "cm" things. You were right all along.

You'll also find that the current Power Flarms are just paper models
with a clockwork mechanism inside giving random target information that
they hope will fool most people until they can all go off on a holiday
to the Virgin Islands with their ill-gotten gains.

For God's sake give it a rest! Pick, pick. Pick, pick. Pick, pick, pick.

NOTHING Flarm ever does will make you happy. The thousands of satisfied
users all around the world who've had no trouble making it work for 5
years and think it's a brilliant piece of kit are a complete figment of
Flarm's imagination used only for marketing purposes in the USA to suck
in poor, innocent victims like you.

Take my advice. DON'T BUY ONE! You'll never regret it.

Just stop writing about something you clearly dislike intensely, have no
interest in and will never buy - and give us all a break.

Darryl - please - stop replying to his inane posts! It just encourages him.

GC