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Vintage Cox Radio?

Old 03-06-2011, 09:35 PM
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Does any still use this type of radio.
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Old 03-07-2011, 10:09 AM
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Default RE: Vintage Cox Radio?

I wouldn't trust anything other than a cheap and dirty model to it. My building time is too valuable to trust to a cheap radio link.
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Hard to tell from the pic...is it one of the old Cox / Sanwa 2 channels?
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It looks like the old push button transmitters that were sold with the rudder only EZBee for a while.
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From a Cox EZBee as LD said. Pressing the button would activate rudder for up to ~1 second, which would then neutralize until the next push.

To answer the question, it is hard to imagine why anyone would ever use such a radio for anything except for an original EZBee. It is little more than a toy radio set, there are easier ways to train someone on RC. No insult intended, it is simply a mass produced el cheapo radio for an ill-fated RTF trainer. The EZBee itself flew pretty well as I recall, I tried out one of these and a proportional version in the early '90's when I worked for a hobby mfg. I seem to remember wondering if the pulse radio actually had any tangible effect on the flight path. Still have two wings downstairs, made of dense foam like ACE wings, with polyhedral and a fair amount of camber.

Aren't these 27mHz? Or were they 72?
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OK, I see now what you're talking about...the white squares are push buttons. Never seen one of those before...is it from the 80's or maybe 90's?
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They were sold up through the mid to late 90's. I had a two channel EZBee with a single stick Sanwa radio and the biggest, slowest mini-servos you'll ever see. I started flying that in 1995, and I can recall both that version and the single channel versions being in the Tower Hobbies catalogue through at least 1998. Maybe as late as 1999 or 2000?

If I remember correctly, the single channel version with the push button radio was called the EZBee Sport.
Old 03-08-2011, 02:05 PM
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I guess you guy's missed my question. I want to know if anyone use's this type of transmitter in a plane in today's time. I would think it would be for a rudder only plane. It is for sure a Cox transmitter on channel One (26.995)
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gregoryd .... I think the answer to you question is......... NO. It's a collectible.
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If their are any collectors of this type of R/C equipment please contact me.
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Try Ebay. It won't fetch much of a price, as they aren't that rare.
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Page 46, 2000 Tower Catalog. $189.99 with a 2 channel radio.
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There is an EZBee sport RTF NIB with the same radio pictured here on Ebay right now, and this morning it was going for less than $30.
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Does anyone have an interest in this radio.
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You would probably do better if you listed this in the marketplace, rather than the discussion forums.
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I'm not trying to sell it I was hoping to find someone who could appreciate it.
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Default RE: Vintage Cox Radio?

I like vintage RC stuff. In fact, I picked up an old Cox 3ch to convert over to FM. Still looking for a bargan newer radio to convert it with. It's for my Cox collection and will be used for flying a balsa 1/2A Schoolyard Citabria...TeeDee powered of course.

I sanded and polished the plastic case and added crinkle paint to the scratched metal back to help restore it. It all fits inside a metallic blue Cox flight box I found which I still have to cut foam for. Looking forward to being at the field with it.

What I like about it besides that is, it is small. Almost toy size which is fine because of the hand launching always involved.
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