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Joined: 10/22/2002 From: Norman,
OK, USA Status: offline
My first radio was an ACE single channel pulse radio with an escapement, I bought it back in 1972. If memory serves, I paid about $100 used. I think it was on 27 something. The first airplane I flew it in was a Goldberg Skylane 42 with an Cox .049 engine. I built it heavy and that engine just struggled to pull that airplane around the sky.
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Joined: 1/30/2002 From: Mount Airy, NC, USA Status: offline
My FIRST radio was somekind of 2 tube japanese rig that I picked up on Isizaki Cho(sp) in Tokyo in 1956. Transmitter was a homebrew and I don't think it ever worked. Second was a Babcock BCT2/BCR3 with rubber powered Bonner escapement, later cascaded to get UP elevator (Pickin' tall cotton then). Following that i went the usual route; Orbit Reeds, Kraft Reeds then into the bigtime with a Space Control outfit that cost $529.00 in 1962 (I think). Damn thing was temperature sensitive and i was in Northern Scotland so didn't have many successful flights over there. Got an EK Logictrol while on Guam in 1966; my first really great radio. After that i tried Futaba then airtronics and now into JR where I will stay as it is the best I have used.
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Joined: 5/28/2002 From: San Antonio, TX, USA Status: offline
EK Logictrol, 7ch single stick open gimbal w/ 4 giant scale sized servos, large receiver and I can't remember what type of battery. I don't think they were nicads. Actually I am sure of it. The connectors were like din plugs. Tried to install this in a Goldberg Falcon 56 back in 1968.
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Joined: 1/13/2002 From: North Am,
PA, USA Status: offline
Mine was a Min-X with a Rand Galloping Ghost actuator in a Goldberg 1/2A Falcon . My boy friend at the time gave it to me after his father started it and never finished it. The stuff was almost 18 years old when I got it . I rebuilt the RF deck from 27 to 53 Mhz with some (A LOT) of help from my dad and bought an Ace receiver kit. The next plane was a step further into the past . A Bramco receiver (3 tubes) and a home made single channel transmitter in a DeBolt Champ powered by a Fox 15X. Picked that stuff up at a garage sale. It made a lot of the other club members nervous to see these antiques flying !
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My first radio was a CRC 5 channel. It was a black and orange box. My second was a Kraft sport series, loved that radio. Then I went to ProLine and stayed with them until they were no longer availlable I then switched to Multiplex Profi 2000, a few commanders, then the Royal MC, then' the MC 3030, and now the MC 4000.
I don't need the new Royal EVO, but I want one I also have a Multiplex Pico.
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Joined: 8/28/2002 From: Lincoln,
CA, USA Status: offline
1961 or 1962 (not sure which - mind is going!), single channel Ecktronics Kraft KT-1 transmitter, Kraft KR-1 receiver with Bonner S/N escapement. Used in Midwest 'Lil Esquire with Cox .049 Babe Bee. A "good day" was when you brought back a repairable airplane!
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Joined: 12/27/2001 From: Conestoga, PA, USA Status: offline
Super Aerotrol CW system in kit. AHC sold it for $14.95 I think and I begged for it for Christmas. After I built it I and a HAM couldn't get the receiver to work. Then on to an Ace/Kraft single channel TX with a C&S Finch II receiver. That receiver didn't like the trans. and never got any range so I bought a Min-X PowerMaster Tx. First plane was a DeBolt Livewire Trainer with Fox .10. Oh yeah and a Babcock escapement.
First propo was a used Bonner Digimite 4. Worked well. Now a whole airborne system weighs less than one servo did.
I remember watching Pappy DeBolt fly in contests in NY State with his Space Control system and dreaming about owning something like that one day.
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Joined: 11/30/2002 From: Ironwood,
MI, USA Status: offline
First radio was a Hobby Lobby 3 (made by EK), purchased in 1973 for about $100. All dry cells, 27.195 Mhz. It first went into a Jr. Skylark that was never flown, then about 5 years later I put it in a Midwest Lil T glider that I modified for 2 channel operation. I taught myself to fly with that plane, and even though the field where I flew was bordered by a freeway, and it was during the height of the CB radio era, I never once got shot down. Of course, the way I flew it would have been hard to tell
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Joined: 5/14/2002 From: Republic,
WA, USA Status: offline
Happy New Year!!!!!!!!!!!!
My first radio was a 4C Micro Avionics that I put in a Goldberg Sr Falcon. As I remember (this was in 1968 at Ft Ord, CA), the servos were quite large. I later put it in a Sterling Stearman which later crashed due to radio failure. Second was a Kraft 5C and then built a Heathkit.
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