This is one of the things Mike and I go in different directions but only to a point. When students ask me about radios I tell them to first give it a lot of thought, are they going to stick with the hobby?? If they are sure then I tell them to buy the best radio they can afford because it will be with them for a lot of years. It doesn't have to be the best on the market or the biggest. At one point I had two students, one young and one older. The young one bought the DX7 and the older fellow bought the JR 9303. The young man is out of the hobby and the older fellow is now into much bigger planes and the 9ch is working out well for him. I have run out of channels a number of times with my 9 but you can work around that little problem. I don't use Ys, there are better things on the market today.