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

[RON HANSEN]

I'm still flying 72 MHz using my JR 10X radio.  I need to switch to 2.4 this winter.  This module is the solution to my problem.  I love the 10X, 9303 and 12X radios.  I don't like the DSM2 technology, I feel frequency hopping is a superior technology not to mention you can't use DSM2 in Europe.  Either Europe will eventually approve DSM2 or JR will switch to frequency hopping worldwide .  This solution will afford me more time to see what JR decides to do.  So I plan to try this module out on my foamies and park flyers and if I experience no problems I will use it in my pattern planes come this spring unless JR makes a switch to frequency hopping.  I know there are a lot of people in my situation. 



Ron 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ed Alt" <ed_alt at hotmail.com> 
To: nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org 
Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 9:58:31 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Spectrum and Hobbico... new 2.4 alternatitve 

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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