| From: | runnerpaul@*****.com runnerpaul@*****.com |
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| Subject: | RC Deck Ranges [was: Misc SR q's] |
| Date: | Fri, 30 Apr 1999 14:31:02 -0400 (EDT) |
At 10:01 AM 4/30/1999 -0700, Oliver McDonald wrote:
>Nope. The van can Transmit to 2Km, the CRD can transmit to 250m. If
you are more
>than 250m from the van, it cannot hear you,
Actually, acording to Rigger2 author Jon Szeto, his intentions were
that RC Decks have sensitive enough radio receivers to be able to pick
out transmissions from even a Flux 0 device out to the effective range
of the Deck. It's true that normally, transmissions from a Flux 0
device can only travel 250m before loosing signal strength, but
however, RC Decks are supposed to be able to pick out signals that are
too weak to be detected normally.
It helps to look at this from a slightly different angle. Imagine
instead of a rigger using his CRD to remotely operate a RC Deck off in
a van somewhere, imagine a rigger using a RC Deck to operate a 6-inch,
Body 0 microcrawler drone.
While there aren't any rules in the R2 book for the Flux of the
Transmitter that drones' Remote Control Interface use (*), a tiny Body
0 drone is not going to be able to broadcast a signal that would be
much stronger than the signal broadcast from a CRD, right?
However, everything in the rules seems to indicate that you can
operate the Body 0 drone out to the full 2km range of the RC deck, and
still receive a full simsense feed and drone telemetry data. Say the
Rigger then gets a signal amplifier that boosts the Flux of his RC
Deck up to a Flux of 8. By what the rules seem to indicate, then you
should be able to run that Body 0 drone out to 20km, and still receive
the drone's transmissions.
If an RC Deck can receive transmissions from a Body 0 drone out to the
edge of it's range, then an RC Deck should also be able to receive
transmissions from a Flux 0 CRD out to the edge of it's range too,
right?
(*) Footnote: While not officially in the rules, earlier this week,
when Mr. Szeto was questioned about the Flux Rating of Remote Control
Interfaces, he did say they should be Flux 0, since after all, the RCI
both weighs a negligible amount at a Load 0 and takes up a negligible
amount of space at CF 0. He did point out that the rules on p.30 of
R2, for using a vehicle's/drone's powerplant to boost flux would work
for boosting the flux of the RCI.
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