ORIGINAL: TimBle
well if you care to rad the original post you will see he asked if a Futaba T6EX was good enough for his purposes and it was good value for him since it come with a Rx and Servo's. Then some Spektrum geek jumped in and offered his perpective on things and tried to sell him into a pot of misery using more model memoery etc as a selling point.
From that poin on it became a brand war as most of these posting do. Its only the Spektrum/Jr camp who get overly sensitive, opush their own brand, lose the debate and then default to the ''they all work'' , ''its personal choice'' .
His original idea was sound and the radio he wanted would meet his needs more than adequately, but it had to develop into a brand war.
Interesting that the Spektrum folk seem to want to get more people on their system. The rest of the world prefers to be on Frequency hopping. i guess Spektrum is the last remnant of of US products left in the hobby? Shame since DSM2 is simply outdated and obsolete technology.
I may even try a JR on DMSS someday but DSM2 is a pot of misery to be steered well clear of IMO.
I am happy the guy chose a Hitec system. The A9 is a good radio, and its a darn site better than any DSM2 device. Happy flying, you saved a plane today
He chose a
DX7 - and how can you say all the above.....IF YOU are a futaba guy, you don't know.......first hand.....I, on the other hand
OWN a DX7 and have flown it for thousands of flights, without ONE SINGLE GLITCH.....NOT ONE!
EVERY SINGLE plane that went in was my thumbs!
Setup, need to pay attention there, use 6V, flight log.......etc......
And all the futaba guys say "We don't brown out"......haven't you seen the video produced by John at Spektrum.....they BOTH drop at the same voltage which is BELOW what the servo needs anyway, so WHO CARES!!!!
Futaba is a bit overpriced in my opinion.....and how you Futaba guys get amnisia and forget the overheating issues and all the planes that went in when that was going on, not to mention the early days of FASST were NO BETTER than any other 2.4
AND FUTABA was NOT the first on 2.4........
It just amazes me the brand loyalty issues......and just for the record, my AR9100 with 4 rx units in the plane , has the best antenna diversity you can have......so while the link is NOT frequency hopping, and I believe that freq. hopping is a plus to avoid "SOME TYPES" of interference.......I can "Measure" the frame loss and "See" and holds if they occured.....you guys have little IF ANY visability how your stuff is doing......
I can't wait till the next era, which I suspect is going back to HAM radio and registered users, which I am all for......if the FCC opens up 2.4 as I susspect, this will all move back to HAM, and we will not have these issues, and then we can post a comment about SPEKTRUM, JR, or whatever without being attacked......
I am sick of this!