[NSRCA-discussion] RX choices

[John Ferrell]

Although I fly Futaba I have a lot of respect for the JR receiver 
technology. It is the only thing new in receiver design other than the 
Futaba synthesized receiver since the early 1950's. The technology made the 
change to solid state but that was not taking advantage of any new design.

I can assure you that Ham radio receivers have made steady progress during 
that time even as prices came down.

The bigger problem is that we have no idea about the real specs on these 
receivers. The maintenance information is held very close and parts even 
closer. We have no idea how long it takes to cycle in and out of fail safe 
let alone any control over it. In fact we have no real indicator of failure 
thresholds. George Steiner has done a lot of work in this area such as his 
"missing frames" detector but his work has been hampered by lack of 
published specs by the manufactures with PCM.

I had hopes of improvements when HiTec swallowed Multiplex but it seems to 
me they have only used the acquisition to leverage their efforts to become 
another Futaba/JR/Airtronix.

We have not been demanding customers and we have put way too much faith in 
letting the suppliers make decisions for us!
John Ferrell    W8CCW
"My Competition is not my enemy"
http://DixieNC.US

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ed Alt" <ed_alt at hotmail.com>
To: <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 5:02 PM
Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] RX choices


>
> Yep, I've been flying JR single conversion ABC&W sine the late 90's in 
> quite
> a number of different locations around the country and have never, not 
> once
> had the slightest indication of a problem.  Lot's of time with ignition
> systems too.  Must be some other cheesy single conversion receiver?
>
> Ed
>