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 Shame since DSM2 is simply outdated and obsolete technology.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
And by the way......I have also concluded after reading SEVERAL posts from guys bashing SPEKTRUM in South africa......you guys must have gotten a container of Spektrum stuff that got dropped at the dock, or something......
I have seen every guy from capetown to whereever bashing SPEKTRUM......when there MUST be something going on down there.....2.4 video camera with 100 Watt Liner amps hidden in the trees looking for somali pirates?[:-]
I don't know, but just for the record, the technology works FINE.....we have FLA Jets, Joe Nail, and Top Gun, all events on my side of the pond with HUNDREDS of folks flying for days, LOTS and LOTS of them JR, and little to any issues....
I actually spoke personally with the director of development at Horizon after the last Joe Nail and with all this reboot brown out hoopla there were THERE......doing crash investigations, like any good manufaure would be.....and only found 1 unexplained event, which could easily be hardware failure due to heat, vibration, manufacturing, etc....
not to mention that 80% of the radios there were JR/Spektrum (Not my words-if you don't believe it ask John)
I just wish that BOTH CAMPS would tone it down a bit, looses the retoric and stick to the facts!
While I have defended my choice, I recognize that Futaba is a great radio.....I wish I could say the same for your camp[:@]