Shanet75 - I like Hitec and have flown with a Laser 6 72 MHz radio for 3 years, but purchased a Futaba 7C 2.4 GHz radio after about two months of research. There are two reasons I went with Futaba versus the Hitec Optic 6. First, if you look at the back of the Optic 6, Hitech has an exposed cable from the transmitter to the antenna - it looks as if it could be damaged easily. Second, I watched the review of this radio on a youtube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6aNe...eature=related. The person doing the review showed the radio's output on a spectrum analyzer. Hitec has two transmission modes on this radio and one of the modes only transmits over half of the 2.4 GHz bandwidth (this will be explained better in the video). I am not a fan of that idea. Also the receiver antenna is a single antenna and requires a special mounting bracket as I remember. The futaba receiver, while more expensive, has two antennas which only require being at a 90 degree angle to each other. The regular price is $99.00 for the receiver, but I have purchased them as low as $75.00 - in fact, Tower has run them on sale for three months in a row. As stated above, I like Hitec a lot, but just couldn't see buying the Optic 6 and don't have $400.00 for the Aurora.