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Radiomaster Shimmering Winch …??

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On Radiomaster, quite a few of us at Datchet notice a little shimmering on the mainsheet winch… a little shiver or judder. You can feel it best with your fingertip on top of the winch drum screw. It doesn’t seem to present any issues while sailing, but it would be nice to get rid of it. It happens not when sheeted right in or out, but is there in the centre on the mainsheet travel.

Our man in Australia says to try replacing our ceramic antenna ERC receivers with an ER6. NB has done this on the VISS.

However, this weekend, PH suggested he has found the answer by setting the Transmitter packet rate from the original 500/sec to 333/sec.

Very easy to do. Go to the ExpressLRS button of your transmitter system page.

Just access your ExpressLRS button on the Transmitter software to see where you adjust the PacketTransmission Rate.

You can see the field you need to change in this blocked are of the photo. Try that on “333 Full” and see what you get.

I’ve tried this on an ER5Ci receiver with a TX15 this morning. I’d swear my shimmering winch is reduced, but sadly not completely eliminated. It might be specific to the TX15 – we just don’t know yet.

Radiomaster : Advanced Transmitter Guide for Radio Sailors….!!

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As we write, (14 January 2026) our Radio Sailing Beginners Guides to Transmitters have been downloaded globally 1,600 times. 958 of those downloads were for Radiomaster.

Today we have launched our Advanced Radio Sailors’ User Manual for Radiomaster Transmitters. It covers all the very sexy features that many of you have been waiting for.

It has taken time from several Datchet Members to pull all this together.

Instead of publishing a pdf download manual as we have previously, this time we have given the transmitter its own website. Now you can use it from the side of the lake reading from your phone!!

If you look at the website’s menu bar, you can also download our previous Radio Sailing Beginner’s Guides to Flysky, Futaba, and Spektrum (download from USA). We have also included our advanced Futaba User guide which covers the same advanced Radio Sailing features as the new website. All our Transmitter manuals in one, easy-to-find place.

To see it, click on “RADIOS” on the menu bar above.

Marblehead Games – Littleton

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Eight of us took our Marbleheads over to Littleton (Guildford MYC’s new home) today to compete in the Mermaid Trophy and part of the Marblehead Games series.

It was shorts weather last week, and polar weather today !! We were on A rigs in the main.

The huge proportion of the fleet were sailing F6’s – a very nice feeling for PH and GH, to see the result of all their years of hard work making an impact.

Two of our advanced Radiomaster transmitter projects were also in test today – looking very good! (More on this before the year is out) PH’s new TX15 was looking very smart showing off its multicolour gimbal illumination in the half light of the afternoon! Very Christmasy !!

The event organisers made an interesting claim – that this Games Series is the longest continually running Marblehead event in the country…. it’s been running since 1979 even through covid and lock down! Pretty good !!

It was a nice size fleet of around 12 or 13 competitors. Final results will be with us shortly. Hotly contested at the top! NB was beaten into second place by just 2 points, and HM came 3rd – both of them with a good number of race wins!