[NSRCA-discussion] Spectrum and Hobbico... new 2.4 alternatitve

[Ed Alt]

In all seriousness, I think it makes little sense to cross over brands this way.  FASST, JR, or Airtronics; things work just fine.  I could see the initial idea that Horizon had with Spektrum to get the world moving to Spread Spectrum with their modules, but I think that time has passed us by.  As far as preserving the value of an investment in a transmitter by moving to another brand of receivers with a module - why? Go with a brand you like and don't look back to gimmicks to cross over part way.  You always lose something in the process.

 

Ed
 


Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 07:01:51 -0700
From: bob at toprudder.com
To: nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org
Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Spectrum and Hobbico... new 2.4 alternatitve






Personally, I like the FASST system. I must have a dozen 2.4g receivers now. I have nothing against the JR/Spektrum, a lot of my friends fly JR (I am in a very small minority in my club flying Futaba). I will admit that I bought the Spektrum module for one of my old Futaba transmitters, so that I could do the "bind-n-fly" thing as well.
 
I will tell you guys a funny story. I was at Efest this year. I was flying a Vapor over in the corner for the ultralight planes, and heard someone walk up behing a friend of mine (Jeff Phillips, Radioactive Airshow Team) and start asking him how he liked the Vapors. Well, I thought it must be someone who had never flown a Vapor, so I turned around and handed him my transmitter, an old Futaba 7UA with a Spektrum module, so he could fly it. It happened to be Peter Goldsmith. :-)  I wish I had said "feel the difference" to him. 
 
Bob R.


--- On Tue, 9/22/09, John Pavlick <jpavlick at idseng.com> wrote:









Bill,
You are a one-percenter among the one-percenters! LOL 
 
I actually bought the Spektrum module with Rx for my Futaba 12Fg because it was such a good deal. I'm going to use this setup for indoor this year with some of those really small Spektrum receivers. It's also great for the E-Flite Bind-N-Fly models. I just didn't see the point in going "the other way" but I guess in your case it makes sense.
 
John Pavlick




 
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