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Old 02-12-2019, 09:16 PM
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Originally Posted by tedsander
Unless the Futaba was really, really old when you put it away, except for the batteries themselves you should be just fine. You'll likely be the only one at the field with a long metal pole, hence interference/frequency sharing will be non-existent.
You may want to contact Futaba or Radio South to send your radio and receivers in for a check and tune-up, though. Things can drift a bit with age.
That would be my recommendation as well. You might want to have the servos checked out too, just as a precaution. I've got a NIB high torque servo that I didn't use right away that actually went bad. When I finally did try to use it, it was totally dead yet, when I hooked up a different servo, that other servo worked fine, removing the chance of a bad transmitter or receiver