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RE: What was your first Radio? - 1/27/2005 4:20:01 AM   
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Status: offline 		My first radio was a Kraft Gold Series 5 channel flying a Falcon 56. I still have it! I then switched to Futaba with various 4-6-channels then got a 9VAP which I still have, then switched to JR with a 388 which I loved and just last year upgraded to a 8103. The Futaba's are collecting dust so I plan on having it factory tuned up and then sell.

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RE: First radios... - 1/27/2005 6:27:17 AM   
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Status: offline 		My first radio was a Kraft Series 68 with 4 KPS 11 servos with the linear and rotating racks. Thats it, four channels, no servo reverse had a servo with a dot on the case that operated in reverse.

Basic set.............$810.00 in 1968 dollars.

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RE: First radios... - 1/28/2005 6:42:53 PM   
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RE: First radios... - 2/6/2005 2:08:01 AM   
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Status: offline 		Cox 4 channel on 72.240 red/white. Cost $75.00 back in 1976. Mr. Gidrey at his hobby shop in Kingsville, TX let me have it cheap to hook me
into RC after CL flying kept me dizzy. We did steady business till I left town 12 years later.

It was a great radio for its time. He had EK's and Orbit sets for sale also.
My solo was on a Sig Kadet Jr. and an Ace Alpha 15 after the Kadet died. Enya 19 on both.

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RE: Ted White - 2/15/2005 7:01:48 PM   
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Status: offline 		Thanks for the correction Harley. You are right, It was Albuququerque, NM. Guess it wouldn't seem right if we didn,t have memory loss if we've been flying for as long as we have.

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RE: Ted White - 2/15/2005 7:16:10 PM   
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Status: offline 		After reading through all the post's, I'm supprised that I havn't heard the name "Royal", by Royal Electronic's, in Denver Co. They were really a good radio system with a very "thin" and wide transmitter. Sid Gates, was the disigner of them. They were built from "Kraft", parts, and came with "KPS 14 Kraft servo's.

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RE: Ted White - 2/15/2005 7:21:44 PM   
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Status: offline 		Remembert when "Circus" radio? It;s now called "JR". I still have an JR 8 ch "Unlimited", series that has never been flown. It's new in the box. this was the top of the line and sold for over $1000.00, when it was new.

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RE: Ted White - 2/15/2005 7:33:13 PM   
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Status: offline 		Bob, the JR Unlimited 8 was my first JR radio. Kraft Southeast was the first importer, then Circus Hobbies. I paid $569 for mine, converted to left-handed mode with 4 coreless servos. It was suplanted by the PCM 9, then the bevy of computer radios, the Galaxy and the whole series of PCM 10s.

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RE: First radios... - 2/15/2005 7:53:56 PM   
Bob Laine



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Status: offline 		I just can't remember "Kraft , selling the "Unlimited" radio. The only ones I remember were sold by Circus. But...........I don't know everything. I do remember when Kraft sold
the "PCS" line of Radio's. Only then they were the Kraft "Sport Series. If I remember, Cliff Werrick"? was it merged with Kraft. Help me out if I'm wrong.

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RE: First radios... - 2/15/2005 11:56:00 PM   
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Status: offline 		I remember the PCS and the cute girl that was in the ad but I don't remember them being sold by Kraft. That was Cliff Werick's production.


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RE: First radios... - 2/16/2005 2:10:16 AM   
Bob Laine



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Status: offline 		Hi Ben, You are so right about the "cute" girl. The "PCS+ radio line was never sold by that name. In the 70's, Clif Werick, and Phil Kraft merged their companeys together and the "PCS" became the "SPORT SERIES LINE OF radios distributed by "KRAFT". If you recall, the servo's were White in colour, And the PCS line of receivers, were not compitable with the gold case Kraft radios. Thanks for you input.

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RE: Ted White - 2/16/2005 2:19:02 AM   
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Status: offline 		Hi Ed, I do recall that the "Galaxie" name radio. was the name of the radio that Ted White produced when he was in Albuquerque, NM. It was white in color, and later became the bedrock for the "PROLINE series of radios. Which inturn, was sold to "ACE", and perfeced in the "silver seven", line. I still think that the PROLINE gimbles, were the best Gimbles, ever made. Thanks for the iinput.

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RE: Ted White - 2/16/2005 2:54:39 AM   
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Status: offline 		A lot of folks liked the Pro-line gimbals (I couldn't afford one). I do like the zero centering of the modern stick assembly though. I wonder if they sold as many radios after it became the Silver Seven.


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RE: First radios... - 2/17/2005 12:06:12 AM   
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Status: offline 		What a great thread !! My first radio was a used Citizenship five channel proportional set with a thick, metal tranmitter case. The servos had a plastic case with push pull and rotary outputs. The receiver also had a metal case with huge, seven pin connectors. I paid $275.00 for the radio in in 1968 or 1969, with paper route money, at Les Pruitt's hobby shop in Indianapolis, Indiana. I built a Goldberg Falcon 56 with an Enya 29. We added ailerons to the Falcon 56 because it did not come with ailerons in the kit. The Falcon kit cost $16.50 I crashed the plane into a tennis court. I took the Citizenship radio back the hobby shop the next winter. Les Pruitt gave me $265.00 for the radio and I purchased a new six channel, Kraft Series Seventy with the smal KPS 12 servos held together with clear tape. I paid $449.95 for the Kraft. There weren't any discounts in those days. I always considered myself a Kraft brand loyalist. After college I bought a Kraft Sport Series and flew it a while. Phil Kraft sold his company and the new owners changed Kraft to a crappy looking plastic radio. It was them that I switched radio brands. My next radio was a JR Unlimited eight. Next radio was a JR 347, then a JR 8103 and and I expecting a JR9303 to arrive on my doorstep this Friday.
I had a ball flying fast pattern type plnes when I was a kid. I fly gliders now.

I wish somebody would write a really good history of the radio pioneers, their companies, and what they are doing now.
S Gibson
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RE: First radios... - 2/17/2005 12:37:33 AM   
Ben Lanterman



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Status: offline 		I do remember that Don Lowe once flew with the Citizenship transmitter because he liked the sticks they used at the time. It was strange to see the one red transmitter in the sea of gold and white boxes at a contest.

I used to memorize the magazine ads of the radios, unfortunately some of the data has gone away with the years that have gone by.

I always wanted one of the Don Brown made DB-21 rigs. They used pulse and a tube front end receiver and were used to set several records for altitude at one time. They were very reliable in the real early days of "crash smoother with proportional". The transmitters were big boxes and you knew you had a arm full with one. They used the smallest little german sissor spring neutralized servos converted to a more linear torque spring centering system. But were smooth and nice flying in airplanes that didn't need a lot of servo power.


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RE: First radios... - 2/17/2005 2:59:11 AM   
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They used the smallest little german sissor spring neutralized servos converted to a more linear torque spring centering system.
I recall they used Bellamatics.



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