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Designing a new high end radio - 9/18/2006 3:48:09 AM   
poriay


 

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From: Pasadena, CA, USA
Status: offline 		Hi my name is Brian, I am an Industrial Design student whoose current project is to design a high end radio for rc airplanes. The company I have chosen is Airtronics. What I am looking to do is design a radio theat can compete against the Futaba 14mz and the JR10x, and retail for around $1000. What I amtrying to do is get Airtronics back into the market. What I am hoping for is any suggestions reagrding the current shortcomings of radios and possible fixes for these, this can be in the ergonomics functionality, modularity, and interface interaction. Any suggestions that you feel that would make the ultimate radio for the enthusiast. Any help is greatly appreciated.

thanks,

Brian
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RE: Designing a new high end radio - 10/13/2006 7:50:49 AM   
Passport1


 

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From: Sierra Vista, AZ, USA
Status: offline 		Brian,

I applaud your efforts, but Airtronics has had all the input they needed to make a top of the line radio, and after a year of promising, they simply stopped the project as of Jan 4, 2005. I intern Futaba and am now back home. I was prepared to fly the airtronics, but it was contingeant upon there new radio. They elected to put the money into there car radio instead, and at that moment I knew they had given me the chance to go back to the best equipment in the world.

Dont waste to much of your time, Sanwa controls everything airtronicts does, and if they don't want to do it, it cant happen.

Chip
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ORIGINAL: poriay

Hi my name is Brian, I am an Industrial Design student whoose current project is to design a high end radio for rc airplanes. The company I have chosen is Airtronics. What I am looking to do is design a radio theat can compete against the Futaba 14mz and the JR10x, and retail for around $1000. What I amtrying to do is get Airtronics back into the market. What I am hoping for is any suggestions reagrding the current shortcomings of radios and possible fixes for these, this can be in the ergonomics functionality, modularity, and interface interaction. Any suggestions that you feel that would make the ultimate radio for the enthusiast. Any help is greatly appreciated.

thanks,

Brian


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RE: Designing a new high end radio - 10/14/2006 6:10:48 AM   
Troy Newman


 

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Status: offline 		Nice thing to say about a former employer.

I bet their pay checks still cashed into green backs

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RE: Designing a new high end radio - 10/14/2006 3:04:28 PM   
IMK


 

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From: Melb, AUSTRALIA
Status: offline 		AAM1024, I for one appreciate Chip's honesty. It's refreshing. From my perspective it was mostly a fact-based response and was very much on the diplomatic side.

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RE: Designing a new high end radio - 10/15/2006 1:48:24 PM   
bla bla


 

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Status: offline 		Why would he want to be diplomatic about it?
They had a chance. They had the nr1 US and one of the worlds best pilot on the team.
They had all the JR and an Futaba radio available to just copy if necessary and they seemed to have made a strategical decission to give the finger to the airplane market and concentrate on the buggy segment.
"Do you drive buggies Mr Hyde?"... it's goodbye then.
Why would anyone have to be diplomatic about that?
Your only local RC producer has just thrown in the towel. Their loss... not Chip Hydes. He's a Proffessional and goes where the money is.

< Message edited by bla bla -- 10/15/2006 1:53:04 PM >

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BR blabla

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RE: Designing a new high end radio - 10/23/2006 1:44:43 AM   
eyeflyok


 

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From: Wauconda, IL, USA
Status: offline 		Hey Brain here is an idea I've been thinking about for years. When will someone come out with a PCM receiver and servo that can talk to one another DIGITALLY? We already have PCM transmitter (which transmit in a digital format) and PCM receivers. Unfortunately, the PCM receivers still outputs a analog signal to the servos. The latest digital servos take the analog signal from the receiver and convert it back to digital for us by the servo's control circuits. There would probably be some advantages to take the PCM signal directly into the servo. Just an idea.


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